420 
LECTURES ON THE BRITISH PHARMACOI'CE I A. 
from which it is derived, we are unable to imagine ; but as it is an entirely new 
substance in a British Pharmacopoeia, we have no reason to doubt that its claims 
for such an especial recognition were very strong in the opinion of the Medical 
Committee of the Pharmacopoeia. 
If we now turn from the consideration of the excluded organic bodies to those 
which have been newly introduced, we find that, although there are but twenty- 
three entirely new to the Pharmacopoeias of the United Kingdom, # yet, when 
compared with the last London Pharmacopoeia, the number of new bodies is 
increased to forty-three , as may be seen by the following table :— 
Table of New Organic Substances in the British Pharmacopoeia as compared 
with the last London Pharmacopoeia. 
Acidum Aceticum Glaciate. 
^Aconitia. 
^Aconitum (Flowering Tops). 
^Arnica. 
* Beberise Sulphas. 
'-“Mela, or Bael. 
Belladonna) Badix. 
Cannabis Indica. 
Chirata. 
Cocculus. 
^Collodium. 
*Conii Fructus. 
Cotton. 
# Cusso, or Ivusso. 
^Digitalinum. 
Filix. 
*Fel Bovinum. 
# Fel Bovinum Purificatum. 
Fousel or Fusel Oil, or Amylic Alcohol. 
Glycerinum. 
Hemidesmus. 
^Indigo. 
Jalapse Besina. 
Uvamela. 
Laurocerasus. 
Lini Farina. 
Matico. 
^Nectandra. 
Oleum Myristicce. 
-Cubebse. 
*-Coriandri. 
^Oxalic Acid. 
^Podophylli Besina. 
^Podophyllum peltatum. 
^Pyroxylin. 
Sabadilla. 
Saccliarum Lactis. 
*Santonica. 
# Santoninum. 
^'Scammonise Badix. 
# Scammonise Besina. 
Spiritus Pyroxylicus Bectificatus. 
Terebintliina Canaclensis. 
The number of new organic substances introduced into the British Pharma¬ 
copoeia as compared with the last London Pharmacopoeia, and the number ex¬ 
cluded, may thus be seen to be precisely equal. We feel that some other organic 
substances in great demand in certain parts of the country might, with advantage, 
have been also introduced; as Pliysostigma venenosum, the plant from which the 
Calabar Bean, now completely established as a most valuable remedial agent, is 
derived, Actoea racemosa, Prunus Yirginiana, Yeratrum viride, Pepsine, etc. ; 
at all events, these have at least equal claims for insertion as Sulphate of 
Beberia, Nectandra, Arnica, Oleum Coriandri, and Fel Bovinum. We should 
like to see a similar plan adopted by the framers of the British Pharmaco¬ 
poeia as has been for a long period employed with great advantage in the 
United States Pharmacopoeia,—that is, to have a Secondary List of the Materia 
Medica, in which should be inserted substances possessing no very evident 
medicinal properties, and which do not enter into any of the preparations and 
compounds ; as also those of recent introduction which are upon their trial, but 
not sufficiently established to warrant their being placed in a prominent posi¬ 
tion in a national Pharmacopoeia. In such a list, articles as Actsea racemosa, 
Prunus Virginiana, Pepsine, Sulphate of Beberia, Cocculus, Cusso, Hemidesmus, 
Kamela, Chirata, Terebintliina Canadensis, Yeratrum viride, Tormentilla, and 
very many others might be placed. We feel sure that a list of this kind would 
* These are marked with an asterisk in the Table of New Organic Substances. 
