638 
PHARMACEUTICAL MEETING. 
Chocolates, Electuaries, Jellies, Pastes, ^ Oleosaccharates, Medicated Lozenges 
and Species,—with regard to wLich I have simply to observe that, strange as 
they may appear to us, the thought never occurred to a grave commission that 
there was anything in their composition to provoke a smile ; neither, indeed, is 
there. These forraulse are the ultimate printed embodiment of hereditary French 
practice, and they fulfil better than anything we could suggest the remedial 
purposes for which they were intended. They apply to a nation which, in soil 
and climate, in social life, in mental and physical organization, is absolutely as 
well as geographically distinct from ours. The two systems of Pharmacy cannot 
be exchanged. 
Before leaving France, let me point out a possible source of error. The 
compound syrup of ipecacuanha is not an opium preparation, and the com- 
pound powder of ipecacuanha (Poudre dTpecacuanha Opiacee) is made with 
dried extract of opium ; one gramme contains nine centigrammes of dry extract 
of opium, being nearly double the strength of our own preparation.* 
For this, however, an apology is made—“ L’usage a consacre en France 
I’emploi de cette formule.” Surely if an error has been committed in the Ark, 
that is no reason why it should be transmitted through the ages. Such a varia¬ 
tion from the known strength of Dover’s Powder is much to be regretted, and 
it seems remarkable that the formula recognized all over the world should not 
have been adopted ; assimilation, like charity, should begin at home. 
Let us transplant the Universal Codex, French or English, to another clime; 
send it to India, Java, or Central Africa. But first strike out the English 
ointments and the French pomades ; keep back all essences that are not distilled, 
else the essential oil will float quietly on the surface ; re-arrange every dose, and 
choose different drugs; alter the formulae for pills, and consign the pastes and 
jellies to the waves. 
[And as it would plainly be impossible to get medical men and the public to 
abandon the galenical formulae to which they have been accustomed, the Universal 
Codex must contain a selection at least of those of all countries, and become 
* STROP D’iPECACTJANHA COMPOSE. 
Sirop de Desessartz. 
Ipecacuanha.30 
Fol. Seunae.100 
Thyme.30 
Fol. Papav. 125 
Magnes. Sulph.100 
White Wine.750 
Aq. Flor. Aurant.750 
Aq. Bullient. 3000 
Sacchari q. s. 
PULV. 
English 
Dover’’s Fowder. 
Ipecac . 1 
P. Opii.1 
I’otass. Sulph. ... 8 
10 
(1 Opium, 1 Ipecac, in 10) 
GERMAN 
TC. COMP. 
French 
Foudre de Dower. 
P. Potass. Nitvat.40 
„ Potass. Sulph. ..... 40 
„ Ipecac.10 
„ Glycyrrh..10 
Ext. Opii Siccat.10 
100 
Fulvis IpecactianhcB Opiatus. 
Pulv. Opii.1 
P. Ipecac.1 
Sacchar. Lactis.8 
10 
