384 
Rules  in  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
/Am.  Jour.  Plaarro, 
i      August,  1902. 
Elias  Durand,  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1829,  p.  165. 
Dubois  and  Eckfelt,  Ibid.,  1857,  p.  173. 
J.  J.  Bernouilly,  abstracted  in  Ibid.,  1859,  p.  441. 
Barnard  S.  Proctor,  abstracted  in  Ibid.,  i860,  p.  428. 
Ch.  W.  Quinn,  Ibid.,  1864,  p.  522. 
S.  L.  Talbot,  Ibid.,  1880,  p.  337. 
Prof.  Chas.  I.  Himes,  Ibid.,  1883,  p.  394. 
G.  H.  Kinsey,  Ibid.,  1884,  p.  181. 
Dr.  E.  R.  Squibb,  "  Ephemeris,"  Vol.  2,  p.  842. 
M.  Marc.  Raymond,  Repertoire  de  Pharmacie,  1883. 
Translation  in  Druggists  Circular,  1884,  p.  36. 
B.  Studer,  Ibid.,  1884,  p.  185. 
Dr.  G.  F.  Payne,  Ibid.,  1897,  P-  I25- 
S.  W.  Williams,  Ibid.,  1899,  p.  220. 
Dr.  W.  H.  Leaman,  Meyer  Brothers  Druggist,  1899. 
Oswald  Schreiner,  Pharmaceutical  Revieiu,  Vol.  19,  No.  7. 
F.  Eschbaum,  Berichte  Der  Deutschen  Pharmaceutischen  Gesell- 
schaft,  1900,  p.  91. 
Abstracted  in  American- Journal  of  Pharmacy,  1901,  p.  140. 
Same  author,  Berichte  Der  Deutschen  Pharmaceutischen  Gesellschaft, 
1902,  p.  32. 
E.  Harnack,  Mue?ichener  Medizinische  WocJienscJirift,  1897. 
Abstracted  in  "  Proceedings  of  the  Am.  Phar.  Asso.,M  1898. 
SHOULD  PHARMACISTS  ALWAYS  FOLLOW  OUT  THE 
RULES  LAID  DOWN  IN  THE  PHARMACOPCEIA  ?\ 
By  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
Upon  seeing  this  query  in  the  list  the  writer  felt  a  little  shock,  be- 
cause it  at  first  seemed  to  give  the  authority  of  this  Association  to 
what  might  be  termed  disloyalty  to  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  and 
this  was  undoubtedly  not  the  intention  of  the  framer  of  the  query. 
It,  however,  furnishes  a  text  for  some  remarks.  The  necessity  of  a 
pharmacopoeia  is  universally  recognized,  for  the  same  reason  that 
we  acknowledge  the  absolute  need  of  laws  for  the  governing  of  our 
conduct  as  citizens  of  the  Republic  and  for  the  protection  of  all, 
1  Read  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, June,  1902,  in  reply  to  query  No.  29. 
