NOTES ON TIIE BRITISH PHARMACOPOEIA. 
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Digitalinum. Podophylli Resina. 
Fel Bovinum Purificatum. Sabadilla. 
Jalapse Resina. Santoninum. 
Kamela. Scaramoniae Radix. 
Nectandra. Scammonise Resina. 
Podophyllum. 
The first list, comprising the substances of the Organic Materia Medica ex¬ 
cluded from the British Pharmacopoeia, which we have carefully compiled by 
comparing the present Materia Medica with the lists of the previous and last 
editions of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopoeias, will show at 
once that the framers of the new Pharmacopoeia have been any tiling but sparing- 
in their condemnation of substances derived from plants and animals. The 
number of articles now excluded amounts altogether to ninety-three, but as 
several of these, namely,— 
Alcohol. Turmeric, 
Bread, White of egg, 
Cotton, Proof Spirit. 
Flour, Squirting Cucumber Fruit, 
Litmus, 
are afterwards placed either in Part 2, or in the Appendix under the heads of Arti¬ 
cles employed in the Preparation of Medicines, in Chemical Analysis, or as Test 
Solutions, the number of organic bodies excluded is reduced to eighty-four. Two 
other substances have also in previous Pharmacopoeias been each mentioned under 
two names, as Chimaphilaor Pyrola, and Dolichos or Mucuna, which reduces the 
number excluded to eighty-two. The plants and animals from which several pre¬ 
vious substances of the Materia Medica were obtained are however still retained, 
but different parts of, or products from, are now ordered; as Punica Granatum , 
Jnniperus communis , Lavandula vera , Humulus Lupulus , Mentha piperita , Mentha 
viridis , Rosa centifolia , Rosmarinus officinalis , Ruta graveolens , Saccharum com¬ 
mune, and Vitis vinifera. Further, we find amongst the excluded substances that 
two or more parts of the same plant or animal are enumerated in the lists of the 
Materia Medica; and thus, by taking all these and deducting them from the 
number eighty-two already arrived at, we find that the plants and animals which 
are altogether excluded in the present Pharmacopoeia are as follows:— 
Excluded Plants and Animals. 
Allium sativum. 
Aloe indica. 
Althaea officinalis. 
Amygdalus communis, var. amara. 
Archangelica officinalis. 
Artemisia Absinthium. 
Avena sativa. 
Citrus Limetta, var. Bergamium. 
Calamus aromaticus. 
Canella alba. 
Canna species. 
Cervus Elaplius. 
Chimaphila umbellata. 
Cinchona micrantlia ? 
Cinchona nitida ? 
Cinnamomum Cassia. 
Cuminum Cyminum. 
Cydonia vulgaris. 
Daucus Carota. 
Delphinium Staphysagria. 
Erythraea Centaurium. 
Euphorbia species. 
Helleborus niger. 
Inula Helenium. 
Lactuca sativa. 
Lactuca virosa. 
Larix europcea. 
Laurus nobilis. 
Linum catharticum. 
Malva sylvestris. 
Manihot utilissima. 
Maranta arundinaeca. 
Melissa officinalis. 
Mentha Pulegium. 
Menyanthes trifoliata. 
Mucuna pruriens. 
Origanum vulgare. 
Piper longum, or 
Chavica Roxburghii. 
Pistacia Terebinthus. 
Pterocarpus erinaceus. 
Pyrethrum Parthenium. 
