CIK 



journal of Pharmacology, 



Devoted to the Advances Made in Materia Medica in its Branches. 



Pharmacy, Pharmacognosy, Chemistry, Botany, Pharmaco- 



Dynamics, Therapeutics and Toxicology. 



Printed for the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, 

 by The New Era Printing Company, Lancaster, Pa. 



VOX.. V. 



NOVEMBER, 1898. 



No. ii. 



Nomenclature of the Modern Synthetics. 



V. COBLENTZ, PH D. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTAI> 



The above was the title of a paper presented to the A. Ph. A. in an- 

 swer to a query as to whether a revised nomenclature was possible of ap- 

 plication to the modern synthetic medicinal preparations. It was the 

 object of the author to make a comparative examination of the titles em- 

 ployed at present in order to ascertain if revision was either necessary or 

 possible. Among the vast number of remedies introduced under this head 

 only the true synthetics are considered. The following classification is 

 made : 



Group I. True synthetic medicinal products. — These constitute definite 

 chemical compounds such as have been built up from elementary or sim- 

 pler bodies with a view of introducing certain organic groupings which 

 clinical experience has demonstrated to produce certain medicinal effects. 



Group II. Proprietary combinations.— These are chiefly mixtures or 

 combinations of true synthetic products with various adjuvants, serving 

 the purpose of assisting or modifying their medicinal action. 



The titles of the compounds belonging under Group I. are divided into 

 two general classes, namely : 

 Class I. Chemical Titles. 



(a) Titles of this class express precisely the chemical composition of 

 the compound, as for example, acet-aniiid, ethylene-diamine, ethoxy- 

 caffeine, etc. 



* Abstract of a paper read before the American Pharmaceutical Association held at 

 Baltimore, Md., August, 1898. 



