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other countries should not be indiscriminately applied here. In 
our opinion, if the United States Pharmacopeeia is official in the 
Philippines, we should have an extra Pharmacopeia, something 
like the “Indian and Colonial addendum” that British India has 
for the British Pharmacopeeia, wherein we might include not only 
our best-known indigenous remedies, but also the tolerable va- 
riations in the constants of imported drugs due to our climatic 
conditions. 
