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afford to send a full complement of representatives and insist on tlieir zeal 
and activity. Standards, therefore, may be framed to suit such interests. — 
Am. J. Pharm.. Phila., 1906. v. 78, p. 86. 
An editorial, in commenting on the interest shown by medical prac- 
titioners in the U. S. P., asserts that, if the present activity in phar- 
macopoeia! affairs among physicians continues, the convention at 
Washington, in May, 1910, will have at least 1.000 delegates and be 
of a decidedly medical complexion. — Meyer Bros. Drug., St. Louis, 
1906, v. 27, p. 191. 
6. VALUE OF CRITICISMS. 
Remington. J. P., discussing Coblentz's Comments on the U. S. P. 
Inorganic Chemicals, said that of the criticisms of the U. S. P., 
1890, only about 2 per cent were found to have any value, the others 
showing for the most part merely differences of opinion. He ex- 
pressed the hope that the criticisms of the eighth revision would be 
of more value, and said that they will all be considered. It should 
be understood, he said, that the pharmacopoeia is a book of standards 
for medicines, and not for analytical chemists. Referring to the 
criticism that it is a manufacturers’ book, he asked how it could be 
anything else, when all of the chemicals are made by manufacturers 
and not by druggists themselves. — Am. J. Pharm., Phila., 1906. v. 78. 
jd. 150. (See also Proc. Pennsylvania Pharm. Ass., 1906, 2313. 97-100.) 
Stevens, A. B., thinks it remarkable that there has not been wider 
and more varied criticism. He believes that criticism pointing out 
existing defects and suggesting improvements will aid the revisers 
of future editions. Nothing, he says, could be further from the 
truth than Leffman’s statement that the i3harmacopoeia is always 
issued under a star-chamber control. Only a few i3ersons are taken 
into confidence; and in i3roof he cites 23age xlv of the U. S. P./YIII. 
He recommends the ai3i3ointment of a committee to test systematically 
the i3reparations criticised. — Proc. Michigan Pharm. Ass., 1906, pp. 
93-97. 
Osborne, O. T., is quoted as asserting that however successful the 
U. S. P., VIII, may be from a scientific standpoint, it is a flat failure 
from the stancli3oint of the teacher of therapeutics. — Am. Druggist. 
N. Y., 1906, v. 18, p. 316. 
Remington, Jos. P., asserts that a comi3rehensive rei3ort giving 
briefly the views of the pharmaceutical and medical journals, writers, 
chemists, botanists, and others interested is in active preparation, 
but at this time the chairman desires to state that the favorable 
comments vastly exceed the unfavorable criticisms. — Proc. Am. 
Pharm. Ass., 1906, v. 51, p. 79. 
