Cbe journal of Pbarmacology, 



A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Advances Made in the Various Departments 

 OF Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Chemistry. 



Vol. VII. NOVEMBER, 1900. No. ii. 



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The New Addendum to the British Pharmacopoeia. 



According- to a contemporary, the Medical Press and Circular, 

 "The advent of an Indian and Colonial addendum to the British 

 Pharmacopoeia will probably come as a surprise to many people. It 

 is the first step in the production of an Imperial PMiarmacopoeia. We 

 are told that it is to a certain extent provisional, that it is supplement- 

 ary to the Pharmacopceia of 1898, and that it is to be regarded as a pre- 

 liminary to the next Pharmacopoeia. It is understood that the drugs 

 and preparations included in this list are to be prescribed by medical 

 practitioners according to their own judgment of their value, and that 

 it is not contended that they should be substituted by dispensers for 

 similar articles already in the Pharmacopoeia except in those cases where 

 authority for such substitution is expressly indicated in the text. Many 

 of the names of drugs and preparations included in the Addendum are 

 probably unfamiliar to the average prescriber who might fairly be ex- 

 cused for professing ignorance of the value and therapeutic properties 

 of ispagula, kaladana. infusum andrographidis, infusum toddaliae, or 

 even of tinctura azadirachtse indicae. In some cases he is on more 



