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BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA, 1867. 
The Executive Committee of the General Medical Council give 
Notice that, whereas there are chemists who are still in the habit of compound¬ 
ing and dispensing medicines according to the directions and formulae contained 
in the London Pharmacopoeia, all such persons should know that the British 
Pharmacopoeia, as last amended and published by the Medical Council in 
1867, is now, by 25 & 26 Viet. cap. 91, § 3, the only Pharmacopoeia authorized 
by law. 
And further, that any chemist or other person who, without the sanction of 
a legally-qualified medical practitioner, should compound and dispense medi¬ 
cines, otherwise than according to the authorized Pharmacopoeia, would cer¬ 
tainly be held criminally responsible if the effect of his so compounding and 
dispensing should prove injurious to the health, or affect the life of the person 
taking or using such medicines. 
32, Soho Square , London , W. March , 18C8. 
BOOKS RECEIVED. 
Our Schools and Colleoes ; containing Information respecting the Universities, and 
nearly 2000 Schools preparing for various Public Examinations. By Herbert Fry. 
Second Annual Edition. London : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. 
Recollections of the Paris Exhibition of 1867. By Eugene Rimmel. London: 
Chapman and Hall, Piccadilly. To be had also of the author, 96, Strand, 128, Re¬ 
gent Street, and 24, Cornhill. 
Commentaires Therapeutiques du Codex Medicamentarius ; ou, Histoire de Fac¬ 
tion physiologique et des effets therapeutiques des Me'dicaments inscrits dans la 
Pharmacopee Franchise. Par Adolphe Gubler. Paris: J. B. Bailliere et Fils. 
Londres: Hippolyte Bailliere. New York: Bailliere Brothers. Madrid: C. B. 
Bailliere. 1868. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Persons having seceded from the Society may be restored to their former status on 
payment of arrears of subscription and the registration fee of the current year. 
Those who were Associates before the 1st of July, 1842, are privileged (as Founders 
of the Society) to become Members without examination. 
The General Index to the first fifteen volumes of the Pharmaceutical Journal may 
be had of the Secretary, price 2s. 8 d. post free. 
The Catalogue of the Library may also be had of the Secretary, price Is. Id. post 
free. 
Election of Members of Council. —It is desirable that our Members should be 
aware that the subscription to the Society becomes due on the 1st of January in every 
year, and that unless it be paid before the 1st of May they cease to be entitled to the 
privileges of the Society, including the right of voting for Members, nominating Local 
Secretaries, etc. Some of our Members have been disappointed at not receiving the 
usual papers relating to these functions of membership, overlooking the fact that they 
had omitted to pay the subscription by the specified time. 
Liquor Bismuthi et Ammonite Gitratis. —Mr. Charles Ekin, of Bath, states that some of 
the samples of this preparation, which he has met with in commerce, have been found 
to contain impurities, chiefly arsenic. 
“ Pharmaceutist”— See Beasley’s ‘Pocket Formulary.’ 
