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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1910. 
40  additional  titles.  Even  with  this  addition  the  German  Phar- 
macopoeia will  contain  fewer  medicaments  than  the  majority  of 
other  foreign  pharmacopoeias.  This  is  considered  as  evidence  of 
the  scientific  development  of  medicine  in  Germany. 
The  following  titles  proposed  for  the  corresponding  trade  names 
will  illustrate  the  difficulties  that  confront  the  prospective  user  of 
the  Ph.  Germ.  V.: 
Paraminobenzoyldiaethylaminoaethanolum    hydrochloricum  Novocaine 
Benzoylaethyldimethylaminopropanolum  hydrochloricum  Stovaine 
Tropacocainum   hydrochloricum  Tropacocaine 
Trimethylbenzoxypiperidinum  hydrochloricum   ..B.  Eucaiue 
Aethylmorphinum   hydrochloricum  Dionin 
Diacetylmorphinum  hydrochloricum  Heroin 
Acidum  acetylo-salicylicum  _  Aspirin 
Pyrazolonum  phenyldimethylicum  salicylicum  Salipyrine 
Pyrazolonum    dimethylaminophenyldimethylicum  Pyramidon 
Natrium  Arsanilicum   Atoxyl 
Some  criticism  has  been  aroused  in  Germany  by  the  proposed 
use  of  the  full  chemical  name  for  the  new  additions  to  the  German 
Pharmacopoeia.  It  is  proposed,  for  instance,  that  in  place  of  the 
chemical  name  for  novocaine  the  name  aethamin  be  used,  and 
for  stovaine  the  name  propamin  {Pharm.  Ztg.,  Berlin,  1910,  v.  55, 
p.  270). 
J.  Prescher,  in  a  communication  to  Pharm.  Zentralh.,  1910,  v. 
51,  p.  288,  discusses  the  nomenclature  of  the  haloid  salts  of  sodium, 
ammonium,  calcium  and  magnesium  in  the  Ph.  Germ.,  and  points 
out  that  "  chloratum  "  has  been  and  is  likely  to  continue  to  be 
mistaken  for  the  designation  frequently  used  for  the  "  ic  "  salts 
of  the  same  elements. 
New  Italian  Pharmacopoeia. — An  editorial  (Chem.  &  Drug., 
London,  19 10,  Feb.  26,  p.  327)  commenting  on  the  new  Italian 
Pharmacopoeia,  shows  that  in  certain  directions  tests  are  adapted 
to  the  requirements  of  the  average  pharmacist  rather  than  to 
please  the  analytical  specialist. 
Servian  Pharmacopoeia. — The  recently  published  "  Pharma- 
copoeia Serbica.  Edito  secunda,"  embodies  several  interesting  in- 
novations. To  overcome  the  criticism  that  deleted  articles  are  no 
longer  subject  to  any  official  requirements  it  is  provided  that 
when  an  article  not  official  in  the  second  edition  but  described  in 
the  first  edition  of  the  Servian  Pharmacopoeia  is  prescribed  by  a 
