430 
GENERAL  COUNCIL  OF  MEDICAL  EDUCATION,  ECT. 
I  subjoin  a  few  of  the  numbers  thus  in  use : 
Tr.  Digital., 
Tr.  Opii, 
Creasote,  110 
Acid.  HydrochL,  45 
"   Nitric,  7'Z 
"  HydrochL  dil.  65 
"   Hydroeyan.,  54 
96  drops  =  f3j. 
108  " 
01.  Tiglii.,  100  drops 
"  Lavand.  Ang.120 
"  "  Exot.  95 
<<  Oarui.,  98 
«  Menth.  P.,  110 
"  Caryophyl,  90 
Otto  Ros?e,  150 
Chloroform,  250 
Dr.  Pereira  says  of  chloroform  :— "  The  dose  internally  may 
be  from  five  to  twenty  minims,  or  more.  The  physicians  of  the 
United  States  have  been  in  the  habit  of  prescribing  it  in 
much  larger  doses;"  and  quoted  several  cases  in  which  from  76 
to  100  drops  were  given.  Probably  these  doses  were  not  greater 
than  those  of  his  own  prescribing. 
A  reference  to  the  table  will  also  show  the  difference  between 
selling  otto  of  roses  by  the  drop  and  by  the  drachm  in  a  stronger 
light  than  some  of  your  readers  may  have  hitherto  seen  it. 
There  might  be  other  points  of  interest  considered  in  connex- 
ion with  this  table,  but  I  will  not  add  more,  save  a  word  of  cau- 
tion against  any  one  adopting  the  numbers  above  given  without 
direct  experiment  in  each  case. — Lon.  Pharm.  Journ.  July  2, 
1860. 
GENERAL  COUNCIL  OF  MEDICAL  EDUCATION  AND 
REGISTRATION. 
Report  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  Committee. 
At  a  meeting  of  the  Council,  held  at  the  Royal  College  of 
of  Physicians,  London,  on  the  16th  June, 
Present — Sir  Benjamin  C.  Brodie,  President,  in  the  chair  ; 
Br.  Burrows,  Mr.  Green,  Mr.  Nussey,  Dr.  Bond,  Dr.  Embleton, 
Do.  Storrar,  Dr.  Alexander  Wood,  Dr.  Andrew  Wood,  Mr.  Watt, 
Mr.  Syme,  Dr.  A.  Thomson,  Dr.  A.  Smith,  Dr.  Williams,  Dr. 
Leet,  Dr.  Apjohn,  Dr.  Corrigan,  Sir  James  Clark,  Sir  Charles 
Hastings,  Mr.  Lawrence,  Mr.  Teale,  Dr.  Christison,  Dr.  Stokes, 
Dr.  F.  Hawkins,  Registrar. 
Dr.  Christison  presented  the  following  report  of  the  Pharma- 
copoeia Committee,  which  was  received  and  ordered  to  be  print- 
ed in  the  minutes  : — 
