The pharmaceutical calculations provide a foundation to pharmacy students to understand the basis for dispensing the drug formulations in the hospital pharmacy. Understanding the basic principles and developing skill and competency in pharmaceutical arithmetic to perform the dispensing procedures smoothly is essential. This book is a comprehensive presentation of all dispensing calculations to consolidate the dispensing concept of pharmacy students to perform the dispensing procedures effectively in a hospital pharmacy. The practice problems at the end of each chapter would help the dispensing students to develop skill and competency in pharmaceutical calculation. The major objective of this book is to satisfy the requirements of pharmacy students of various Universities.

Malay K Das,PhD, is currently the Faculty of Pharmaceutics at the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dibrugarh University, INDIA. Dr. Das is the recipient of the Biotechnology Overseas Associateship award from Govt. of India. He has over 50 publications and presented over 25 lectures in seminar in the field of novel drug delivery systems.