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against  medical  frauds  and  for  legitimate  pharmaceuticals,  including 
an  active  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  propaganda. 
The  work  is  being  done  through  the  county  societies  and  it  is 
evidently  the  intention  to  get  every  medical  practitioner  to  promise 
to  take  an  active  part  in  the  campaign  by  getting  him  to  signify  his 
willingness  to  adhere  to  official,  or  honestly  exploited  remedies  and 
to  eschew  all  remedies  of  a  doubtful  or  objectionable  character. 
The  House  of  Delegates  of  the  Kentucky  State  Medical  Associa- 
tion, during  the  recent  meeting  in  Louisville,  also  adopted  a  reso- 
lution recommending  that  the  State  Legislature  pass  a  bill  requiring 
graduation  from  a  recognized  college  of  pharmacy  with  its  accom- 
panying degree,  as  a  qualifying  necessity  for  permission  to  enter 
examination  before  the  State  Board  for  license  as  registered  phar- 
macist.   [Jour.  A.  M.  A.,  October  26th,  page  1466). 
Pharmacopoeia  Helvetica,  ed.  IV,  is  the  official  title  of  the  recently 
published  Swiss  pharmacopoeia  which  has  been  in  course  of  revision 
for  several  years.  Despite  the  fact  that  the  several  changes  that 
are  embodied  in  the  book  have  been  publicly  discussed,  the  completed 
book  has  attracted  unusual  interest  in  Europe,  and  particularly  in 
Switzerland,  where  the  pharmacists  are  justly  proud  of  their  achieve- 
ment in  the  pharmacopoeial  line. 
The  expectation  that  pharmacy  in  Switzerland  will  enter  upon  a  t 
new  era  of  development  with  the  adoption  of  the  new,  fourth, 
edition,  of  the  official  pharmacopoeia  appears  to  be  amply  justified 
by  the  advances  that  are  evidenced  in  the  book  itself. 
The  new  pharmacopoeia  contains  upwards  of  200  pages  more  than 
the  now  official  third  edition.  This  increase  is  largely  devoted  to 
an  elaboration  of  the  descriptions  and  tests  for  identity  and  purity. 
Assay  processes  are  numerous  and  the  use  of  the  compound  micro, 
scope  will,  in  future,  be  obligatory. 
The  provisions  ©f  the  International  Conference  for  the  Unification 
of  Potent  Medicaments  have  been  closely  followed;  all  of  the 
remedies  enumerated  in  the  protocol  being  designated  by  the  addi- 
tion of  the  letters  (P.  I.). 
The  new  pharmacopoeia  becomes  official  on  March  1,  1908,  and 
will  require  considerable  change  in  the  laboratory  facilities  of  the 
average  pharmacist.  To  assist  Swiss  pharmacists  to  adapt  them- 
selves to  the  requirements  of  the  new  pharmacopoeia,  and  to  perfect 
themselves  in  the  necessary  technique,  in  chemistry  and  microscopy, 
