110 
Weigel, G., reviews the Ph. Nell. IV. and points out a number of 
excellent features which have been incorporated. — Pharm. Zentralh., 
1906. v. IT, pp. 371-376, 396-102, 119-121, 139-112. 
8. SPANISH. 
Herissey, H.. in reviewing the new Spanish Pharmacopoeia, com- 
ments on the large number of products and especially of formulas 
of a kind which make it seem rather a vast therapeutic compendium 
than an official book. Thinks the omission of processes of assay and 
of more specific instructions as to the preparation of test solutions 
a grave fault. * * * Votes the absence of indication as to the 
relative toxicity of medicaments, such as Yenenosa and Separandci 
of the Codex. * * * Thinks the retention of hartshorn and the 
introduction of the Behring-Roux antidiplitheric serum somewhat in- 
congruous. — J. de pharm. et de chim., Par., 1906, v. 23. pp. 185-188. 
Weigel, G., reviews Ph. Hisp. VII. He points out that while this 
book has adopted the provisions of the Brussels Conference and is 
modern in many other respects, the tests and recpiirements provided 
for chemical substances can not be considered as being free from 
objectionable features. In many respects they are inadecpiate and 
even misleading. — Pharm. Zentralh.. 1906. v. 17, pp. 575-580. 
A correspondent notes the appearance of new editions of the u Peti- 
torio " and the “ Tarifa." official pharmaceutical works based on the 
Ph. Hisp. VII. edited by the Pharmacopoeia Revision Committee and 
approved by royal order. The ” Petitorio is a list of the drugs 
and medicaments which must be kept in stock (as a minimum) by 
every pharmacist keeping an open shop, and also by hospitals. The 
66 Tarifa " gives the maximum price at which the medicaments may 
be sold. As compared with the 1889 editions, 91 articles have been 
deleted and 69 added. — Chem. & Drug.. Lond., 1906, v. 68, p. 108. 
A book review calls attention to a volume of observations, correc- 
tions, and additions to the Ph. Hisp. VII, by Eduardo Esteve y Fer- 
nandez Cabellero, and says this little book comes fortunately to com- 
plete and rectify on a great number of points the last edition of the 
Spanish pharmacopoeia. * * * It contains not less than 310 to 
350 articles. — J. de pharm. et de chim., Par., 1906, v. 21, p. 190. 
3. COMMENTS ON THE U. S. P., VIII, RELATIVE TO REQUIRE- 
MENTS OF THE BRUSSELS CONFERENCE. 
Bougault. J., reviews the new pharmacopoeia of the United States, 
notes the preparations in which the international standards have 
been adopted, and gives a list of those in which they were not. He 
concludes with a general statement that a step has been made toward 
unification and practical adherence, and prophesies that the next 
