TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Preface 7 
List of literature reviewed '. 13 
1. Title abbreviations — Journals 13 
2. Title abbreviations — Pharmacopoeias 17 
I. General comments 19 
1. General principles to be followed in revising the pharmacopoeia, 
extract from the abstract of proceedings, U. S. P. C., 1900. . 19 
1. Scope 19 
2. Doses 20 
3. Nomenclature 20 
4. Assay processes 20 
5. Purity and strength 20 
6. General formulae 21 
7. Weights and measures 21 
8. Supplement 21 
9. Limitations 21 
10. Synonyms 21 
11. Precedents 21 
12. Medicine dropper 21 
13. Powdered drugs. 22 
2. Scope: 22 
1. Time of publication. 22 
2. Scope of the Pharmacopoeia 24 
3. Synthetics 25 
4. New remedies 27 
5. Doses - 28 
6. Nomenclature 29 
7. Chemical formulas 30 
8. Assay processes 30 
9. Purity and strength • 32 
10. Standardization 33 
11. Changes in strength 33 
12. General formulas 33 
13. Weights and measures 34 
14. Additions and deletions 34 
15. Drops and droppers 35 
16. Powdered drugs 35 
3. Analytical data: 36 
1. Adulterations 36 
2. Analytical methods and results 37 
3. Reagents 37 
4. Atomic weights 38 
5. Indicators . 39 
6. Ash determinations 40 
