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An editorial discusses the changes made in the several revisions 
of the German pharmacopoeia, enumerates the preparations deleted 
and the several articles added. It also comments on the interest 
manifested on the part of the apothecaries of Germany in the pro- 
posed revision of the Ph. Germ. — Ibid., v. 51, pp. 1013-1015. 
Erganzungsbuch zum Arzneibuch fur das Deutsche Reich. Dritte. 
Ausgabe Berlin, 1906, 8vo, 429 pages contains 19 animal drugs, 204 
vegetable drugs, 225 chemicals, and 528 preparations — a total of 976. 
6. FRENCH. 
C. E. L. quotes Bourquelot as expressing regret that the Codex will 
not include doses, the medical element of the committee being hostile 
to its adoption. — Chem. & Drug., Lond., 1906, v. 68, p. 133. 
Crinon comments on an innovation in the new pharmacopoeia : The 
lists Separanda and Venenosa. — J. de pharm. et de cliim., Par., 1906, 
v. 23, p. 164. 
7. DUTCH. 
Herissey, H., presents a very complete and interesting critique of 
the Dutch Pharmacopoeia, and points out that this work, being obliga- 
tory in all the Dutch possessions throughout the world, contains 
numerous medicaments wholly unused in Europe. It includes vulgar 
names given the drugs by natives. 
The descriptions of simples are minute, constants by which the 
purity of the product may be ascertained are included with the for- 
mulas of chemical compounds. The botanical nomenclature follows 
the Kew Index. 
While the mode of preparation of chemical medicaments is not 
given, tests for identity and purity are given with great precision and 
clearness. He concludes that the Ph. Ndl. IV has followed the path 
traced by the pharmacopoeias published in recent years; it respects 
the decisions of the international pharmacopoeia, inserts lists of max- 
imal doses, indicates numerous processes for the control and analysis 
of medicaments ; from the latter point of view, however, there is mani- 
fest throughout a prudent reserve, desirous, no doubt, of utilizing 
processes which have been subject to the control of a prolonged 
experience; for many essences, in effect, quantitative analysis of the 
principle compound which they contain is not indicated. — J. de 
pharm. et de chim., Par., 1906, v. 23, pp. 477-484. 
Schoepp-Maastricht reviews the Ph. Ndl. IV, which was prepared 
by a permanent pharmacopoeia commission consisting of an inspector 
of the health office as chairman, five university professors — two phar- 
maceutical, and one each medical, chemical, and botanical — and four 
apothecaries. — Apoth. Ztg., Berl., 1906, v. 21, pp. 873-876, 888-889, 
900-901, 926-927, 939-941, 961-962, 985-986, 1020-1021, 1031-1034, 
1058-1059, 1064-1065, 1072-1073, 1086-1087. 
