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If obsolete drugs are retained or new ones of proved value fail to 
gain admission to the Pharmacopoeia it is because the medical profes- 
sion of the country fails, through lack of concerted action (as by 
means of the national or local medical societies) to make their wishes 
sufficiently clear . a 
No account of the Eighth Decennial Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 
would be complete without an expression of the gratitude which all 
physicians must feel to the Committee of Revision who, with no 
motives other than their interest in higher standards, have labored so 
long and well to perfect as nearly as may be the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. 
a When the Pharmacopoeial Convention of 1900 met, only five medical organiza- 
tions presented recommendations and suggestions for the revision of the Pharma- 
copoeia. 
