II. INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS. 
1. BRUSSELS CONFERENCE. 
1. PRO JET D’ ARRANGEMENT. 
The agreement between the United States and other Powers re- 
specting the Unification of the Pharmacopceial formulas for potent 
medicaments was signed at Brussels, November 29, 1906. This Agree- 
ment was signed, for the United States, by Henry Lane Wilson, for 
Germany by Graf von Wallwitz, for Austria and Hungary by 
Comte Clary et Alclringen, for Belgium by Favereau, for Bulgaria by 
Dr. Zolotovitz, for Denmark by W. Grevenkop Castenkiold, for 
Spain by Arturo de Baguer, for France by Etienne Ganderax, for 
Great Britain by Arthur H. Hardinge, for Greece by A. Charalamby, 
for Italy by Pee Mario Ruspoli de Poggio Suasa, for the Grand 
Duchy of Luxemburg by Le Comte d’Ansembourg, for Norway by 
W. Christophersen, for The Netherlands by van der Staal van Pier- 
shil, for Portugal by , for Russia by N de Giers, for Servia by 
M. Boghitchevitch, for Sweden by Falkenberg, for Switzerland by 
Jules Borel. The document is certified by the Minister of Foreign 
Affairs, for Belgium. — Reprinted by the State Department of the 
United States as “ Treaty Series No. 510.” 
Wulff, C., points out that the work of the International Conference 
for the Unification of the Formulae for Potent Medicaments, in 
Brussels, has not been in vain and that there appears to be a universal 
tendency toward the adoption of the provisions of that conference. — 
Ber. d. pharm. Gesellsch. Berl., 1906, v. 16, pp. 147-149. 
He also points out that all of the recently published pharmaco- 
poeias have taken cognizance of the protocol of the International 
Conference for the Unification of the Formulae for Potent Medica- 
ments. Even the Ph. Ital., which was in course of revision, practi- 
cally completed, when the Brussels conference protocol was adopted, 
includes the protocol intact as a guide to Italian pharmacists who 
may have occasion to dispense prescriptions calling for medicaments 
designated as being of standard international strength. — Ibid., v. 16, 
p. 150. 
Herissey, H., points out that the decisions of the Brussels Confer- 
ence are scrupulously observed by the Dutch pharmacopoeia ; such 
medicaments being designated by the letters F. I. (Formula interna- 
tionalis). — J. de pharm. et de chim. Par., 1906, v. 23, p. 478. . 
Schamelhout, A., discusses the compliance of the Ph. Austr. VIII 
with the protocol of the Brussels Conference, and the preparations 
not included in the pharmacopoeia. — Bull. Soc. roy. de pharm., Brux., 
1906, v. 50, p. 117. 
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