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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[April 15,1871. 
selves, and are consequently obliged to seek situa¬ 
tions as managers or assistants; a staff of sucli 
painstaking, well-educated men necessarily gives a 
considerable cachet to the house they may be em¬ 
ployed in. The inspection of pharmacies is no dead- 
letter in Germany, as it has proved to be in France 
and Italy. Here it is a long, searching operation, 
generally performed by two delegates in the pre¬ 
sence of the Kreis-phy sicus of the district. It is 
compulsory every three years; but often judged ne¬ 
cessary to perform it oftener. Not only are the drugs 
examined, but also the assistants and apprentices. 
The inspectors require the production of the phar¬ 
macists’ diplomas, Act of Concession, tariff, herbarium 
of indigenous plants, prescription-books, and the 
prices paid for executing the formula therein. As¬ 
sistants and apprentices are required to show their 
examination certificates, are asked questions on 
chemistry and pharmacy, and have to translate pas¬ 
sages of the pharmacopoeia, which is quite Celsus- 
like in the excellence of its Latin construction. The 
apprentices are bound to have certain hours allotted 
to them for study, and it is the inspector’s duty to 
see that this rule has been complied with. Nearly 
every drug and preparation is carefully examined, 
and often analysed if any doubt be entertained as to 
their genuineness. Laboratories, stores, cellars, all 
are inspected most minutely. A proces-verbal of 
each visit is sent to head-quarters, where a resume 
of it is made, and transmitted to the pharmacist, 
with the addition of either praiseworthy reflections, 
counsels for his benefit, or firm but polite repri¬ 
mands. In some parts of Germany, corporations or 
guilds of apothecaries still exist, which Government 
•can hardly interfere with, as they possess exclusive 
privileges, and do all in their power to prevent new¬ 
comers from establishing themselves. A system en¬ 
joying so many and great advantages is naturally 
and properly subjected to very severe legislative 
measures. The laws relating to the storage of poi¬ 
sons are so similar to those in force elsewhere, that 
it is useless to recapitulate them here. The German 
chemists enjoy great advantages and privileges, 
which are counterbalanced by the severest of exa¬ 
minations and the most searching of inspections. 
I am indebted for much of this legal information to 
M. Labelonye, of Paris, whose work on ‘ L’Organi- 
sation Phannaceutique en Europe’ is highly in¬ 
teresting and instructive. 
THE CHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE OF 
THE PHARMACOPOEIA, 
WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS REVISION. 
BY PROFESSOR ATTFIELD. 
(Concluded from page 804.) 
The proposed Names. 
The following is a table of names of all the clie- 
mieal substances in the British Pharmacopoeia. 
Column I. contains the official names; Column II. the 
names now suggested for employment in pharmacy, 
medicine and the next edition of the British Phar¬ 
macopoeia; Column III. the unitary nomenclature 
of modern chemistry. The advantages claimed for 
the proposed names are that they are more consis¬ 
tent with each other than the old; they are formed 
on one uniform system instead of two; they include 
less of theory, and therefore have greater elements 
of stability than the old; and they are harmonious, 
whilst the old is absolutely inconsistent, with both 
modern scientific nomenclature and the only che¬ 
mical notation now employed. Then- newness, so 
far as they are new, is their only disadvantage, 
and even this disadvantage is, in practice, reduced to 
insignificant proportions. 
Column II. also contains a few exceptional alte¬ 
rations, to which I shall allude subsequently. 
Old Names. 
Acetate of ammonia. 
Acetate of copper. 
A cetate of iron. 
Acetate of lead. 
Acetate of morphia. 
Acetate of potash. 
Acetate of soda. 
Acetate of zinc. 
Acetic acid. 
Acid tartrate of potash. 
Aconitia. 
Albumen. 
Alcohol. 
Alum. 
Ammonia. 
Ammoniated mercury. 
Ammonio-nitrate of silver. 
Ammonio-sulphate of copper. 
Ammonio-sulphate of magnesia. 
Amylic alcohol. 
Arseniate of iron. 
Arseniate of soda. 
Arsenious acid. 
Proposed Names. 
Acetate of ammonium. 
Acetate of copper. 
Acetate of iron. 
Acetate of lead. 
Acetate of morphia. 
Acetate of potassium. 
Acetate of sodium. 
Acetate of zinc. 
Acetic acid. 
Acid tartrate of potassium. 
Aconitia. 
Albumen. 
Alcohol. 
Alum. 
Ammonia. 
Hydrate of ammonium (syn.J. 
Ammoniated mercury. 
Ammonio-nitrate of silver. 
Ammonio-sulphate of copper. 
Ammonio-sulphate of magnesium. 
Amylic alcohol. 
Arseniate of iron. 
Arseniate of sodium. 
White arsenic. 
Synonyms. 
Ammonium acetate. 
Ammonic acetate. 
Cupric acetate. 
Ferric acetate. 
Lead acetate. 
Plumbic acetate. 
Morphia acetate. 
( Potassium acetate. 
\ Potassic acetate. 
Sodium acetate. 
Sodic acetate. 
Zinc acetate. 
Hydrogen acetate. 
Acetic acid. 
Acid potassium tartrate. 
Aconitia, or aconitine. 
Albumen. 
Ethyl hydrate. 
v Alcohol, or ethyl alcohol. 
Alum. 
Ammonia. 
Ammonium hydrate. 
Mercuric-ammonium chloride. 
Argent-ammonium nitrate. 
Cupro-diammonium sulphate. 
Ammonio-magncsian sulphate. 
Amyl alcohol. 
Ferrous arsenate. 
Sodium arsenate. 
Arsenious oxide. 
