Am.  Jour.  Pkarin. 
June,  1910. 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
physician  the  article,  as  dispensed,  must  comply  with  the  require- 
ments laid  down  in  the  former  edition  of  the  Pharmacopoeia.  The 
provisions  of  the  Brussels  Conference  are  closely  adhered  to. 
Physical  and  chemical  tests  have  been  added.  Patented  chemicals 
are  introduced  and  described  under  their  chemical  titles  (Pharm. 
Post,  1910,  v.  43,  p.  169). 
Pharmacopceial  Comments. — The  following  abstract  from  an 
editorial  (Pharm.  J.}  London,  1910,  v.  30,  p.  510)  serves  as  an 
illustration  of  the  interest  taken  abroad  in  every  thing  pertaining 
to  pharmacopceial  revision : 
"  As  an  example  of  thoroughness  in  the  department  to  which 
it  specially  applies  Bulletin  No.  58  of  the  Hygienic  Laboratory 
of  the  United  States  is  probably  unequalled  anywhere.  .  .  .  Even 
a  casual  perusal  of  this  volume  will  quickly  convince  the  reader 
that  'a  maximum  amount  of  disinterested  information  '  has  been 
collocated  in  a  manner  which  may  well  serve  as  an  example  to 
older  countries.  The  status  of  the  U.S. P.  as  the  official  standard 
for  determining  the  purity  and  strength  of  widely  used  medicaments 
could  not  be  maintained  on  better  material  than  is  to  be  found 
in  this  digest,  for  the  compilation  of  which  the  pharmaceutical  and 
chemical  literature  of  the  whole  civilized  world  has  been  ran- 
sacked in  a  way  which,  one  is  almost  compelled  to  think,  can 
only  be  done  in  America.  The  compilers  having  hit  upon  what  is 
undoubtedly  the  right  way  to  go  about  it,  have  apparently  left  no 
leaf  unturned  in  their  efforts  to  find  material  which  in  any  way 
dealt  critically  with  official  articles.  .  .  .  International  standards 
are  fully  considered  in  twenty-two  pages,  while  the  remaining  411 
pages  are  taken  up  with  comments  on  official  articles  drawn  from 
all  available  sources,  and  which  for  the  most  part  constitute  the 
material  with  which  the  compilers  may  make  or  mar  their  National 
Pharmacopeia." 
International  Congress. — The  International  Pharmaceutical 
Congress,  to  be  held  in  Brussels  from  September  1  to  5,  19 10,  is 
attracting  considerable  attention  abroad,  particularly  in  Germany 
and  France. 
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  German  Pharmaceutical  Society, 
held  in  Berlin,  the  several  propositions  that  have  been  submitted 
were  discussed  at  some  length.  The  desirability  of  greater  uni- 
formity in  the  strength  of  test  solutions  and  in  the  method  of 
