15 In a recent study investigating physicians' utilisation of information presented in the SmPC email alerts, web pages/portals and medicinal product compendiums were considered as the best sources for receiving medicinal product safety information and the level of knowledge taken from SmPCs was found to be generally lower than expected.
In particular, the word got its cachet from the "Whole Earth Catalog," a compendium of product reviews for commune dwellers that appeared several times a year, starting in 1968, and then sporadically after 1972.
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His Whole Earth Catalog — a compendium of hippie products, generated by users, that is now considered an analog precursor of the Web — can still be found on desks at Facebook.
Jennifer Hudson's 1,000 New Designs And Where To Find Them (£19.95) is a compendium of furniture and products, rounding up everything from handtufted carpets (there's an especially nice one by Vittorio Locatelli on page 214) to radical storage solutions such as Gerhard and Glucker's feltand- chrome wall panel.
For those who would like to build an entire home that is eco-considerate, there is "Prefabulous + Sustainable: Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy-Efficient Home" (Abrams; $25), a glossy compendium of the latest prefabricated products, techniques, designers and manufacturers.
For example, a summary of product characteristics for amitriptyline from the online electronic medicines compendium of up to date, approved, and regulated prescribing information for licensed medicines 33 includes history of myocardial infarction as a contraindication but the BNF 66th edition states only contraindication in the immediate recovery period after myocardial infarction.
I love a story that feels like the product of an overheated imagination - and these certainly qualify - but a novel isn't just a compendium of the novelist's imagination, it's also the delivery system for it.
