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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t      March,  1910. 
Era  (February,  19 10,  p.  128)  and  by  the  reported  action  of  the 
Philadelphia  Association  of  Retail  Druggists  disavowing  any  inter- 
est, as  an  association,  in  the  American  Druggists'  Syndicate. 
British  Pharmaceutical  Codex. — This  book,  which  has  been  out 
of  print  for  some  months  since,  is  now  in  press  and  at  a  recent 
meeting  of  the  Council  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  it  was  an- 
nounced that  proof  would  soon  be  ready  to  submit  to  the  Codex 
Revision  Committee. 
Pharmacopoeia  Suecica  IX. — A  review  of  the  recent,  ninth,  edi- 
tion of  the  Swedish  Pharmacopoeia  calls  attention  to  a  number  of 
more  or  less  novel  features.  It  appears  that  this  Pharmacopoeia 
has.  taken  rather  an  advanced  stand  regarding  active  ingredients, 
and  directs  that  for  oil  of  anise  or  oil  of  fennel  anethol  be  dispensed 
and  that  for  oil  of  eucalyptus  or  oil  of  cajuput,  eucalyptol  be  fur- 
nished.— Apothek.-Ztg.,  Berl.,  1910,  25,  p.  29. 
New  Hungarian  Pharmacopoeia. — A  review  of  this,  the  third, 
edition  of  the  Hungarian  Pharmacopoeia  points  out  that  the  decree 
of  the  Minister  of  the  Interior,  bearing  the  imposing  number 
100,000,  specifies  that  this  book  become  the  official  authority  on 
January  1,  1910.  The  book  is  printed  in  Magyar  and  in  Latin,  the 
two  being  bound  together  in  a  single  volume.  The  work  includes 
526  official  preparations  and  106  reagents.  The  Latin  nomenclature 
resembles  that  of  the  German  and  Austrian  Pharmacopoeias  and  the 
monographs  generally  suggest  those  included  in  the  German  Phar- 
macopoeia. The  decisions  of  the  Brussels  Convention  have  been 
closely  adhered  to  and  percolation  has  been  generally  adopted  for 
preparing  the  tinctures  of  potent  drugs.  Specific  gravity  and  extract 
content  is  specified  for  some  tinctures  and  the  alkaloid  content  is 
also  specified  in  some  instances.  The  list  of  appliances  and  utensils 
with  which  every  pharmacy  must  be  supplied  includes :  a  distilling 
plant,  a  steam  apparatus,  a  tablet  machine,  a  sterilizer,  and  a  com- 
pound microscope,  magnifying  at  least  300  diameters. — Chem.  and 
Drug.,  Lond.,  1910,  76,  p.  18. 
New  Italian  Pharmacopoeia. — The  "  Farmacopea  Ufficiale  del 
Regno  d'ltalia,"  III,  is  the  first  of  the  Continental  pharmacopoeias 
to  be  re-revised  since  the  meeting  of  the  International  Conference 
in  Brussels.  It  will  perhaps  be  remembered  that  the  second  edition 
of  the  Italian  Pharmacopoeia  was  in  press  at  the  time  and  the  Brussels 
Conference  Protocol  was  therefore  included  as  an  appendix.  In 
the  present  edition  the  several  provisions  of  the  protocol  have  been 
