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are administered in the practice of human medicine. In 
the f British Pharmacopoeia* no mention is made of the 
doses or therapeutic action and uses of medicines. The 
subject of weights and measures is one to which the Council 
gave long and patient attention, and the results of their 
deliberation is that “ The weights and measures of the 
‘ British Pharmacopoeia/ with their symbols, will now stand 
as follow : 
WEIGHTS. 
1 Pound 
. . lb. = 16 ounces = 
7000 grains. 
1 Ounce 
• • OZ. ■■■■ • • 
437-5 „ 
1 Grain 
• 
• 
II 
fcb 
• 
• 
1 „ 
. MEASURES. 
1 Gallon . 
. C =8 pints 
. O. viij. 
1 Pint 
. 0 =20 fluid ounces 
. fl. OZ. XX. 
1 Fluid ounce 
. fl. oz. = 8 fluid drachms 
. fl. dr. viij 
1 Fluid drachm 
. fl. dr. = 60 minims . 
. min. lx. 
1 Minim . 
. min. = 1 minim. 
. min. j. 
All liquids are ordered by measure unless it is stated 
otherwise/* ***** 
“ In conclusion, the Council warn all apothecaries and 
pharmaceutic chemists that, on the publication of the 
‘ British Pharmacopoeia/ it will be necessary, in order to 
discharge safely their duties to the public, that they should 
duly alter or destroy all pharmaceutic preparations made 
according to previous and now altered formulae/* We will 
conclude the present notice of the f British Pharmacopoeia ’ 
by again stating our belief that the work, in its present 
form, containing, as it undoubtedly does, innumerable imper¬ 
fections, cannot completely supersede the Pharmacopoeias 
already in use in Great Britain and her colonies, but that 
until a more perfect edition is published it will be used con¬ 
temporaneously with those works, and we would therefore 
advise veterinary surgeons, in purchasing preparations of 
the wholesale druggist, and in writing prescriptions which 
may be dispensed by a chemist and druggist, to invariably 
take the precaution of adding to their written directions. 
