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REPORT ON THE PHARMACOPOEIA. 
and valuable amendments have been derived from the three 
additional members, who had by this time been associated with 
the Committee. 
As premised at the commencement of this report, it is 
impossible to designate here a tithe of the alterations, 
additions, and amendments, which the Committee have 
deemed it their duty to make; nor if here specified, could the 
College, without a repetition'of the labor, undertake to deter- 
mine their value. It may, however, suffice to say, that the 
Committee have thought proper to recommend the condensa- 
tion of the primary and secondary lists of the Materia Mediea 
into one, which is to be called "The Materia Medica," and is 
to contain all the substances which were regarded as officinal, 
and therefore required to be kept by the apothecary, either 
to be employed in their native state, slightly modified by 
pharmaceutic manipulations, or required in the execution of 
some formula,in the subsequent division of the Pharmacopoeia, 
devoted to preparations. The place of the secondary lists is 
occupied by a list of indigenous and naturalized plants, em- 
ployed in particular localities of the United States. This class 
of remedies appears to require some official notice, and yet 
their properties are not considered sufficiently established, nor 
is their use sufficiently general, to entitle them to an officinal 
rank. The Committee have also introduced a change in the 
mode of arrangement of these two lists which is considered ade- 
cided improvement. The change is, to place the Latin phrases, 
expressing the officinal name and portion employed, in one 
column on the left side of the page, while the translation of 
each into its English correlative is placed in an opposite 
column on the right side; with an intermediate column con- 
taining the systematic name. Thus, instead of 
Hyoscyamus, Hyoscyamus niger, W. 1.1010 
Henbane, 
BW 1.161. 
Folia, the leaves, 
We shall have : 
Hyoscyamus, 
Henbane, 
Hyoscyamus niger, 
Folia, 
The leaves. 
