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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      June,  1914. 
You  do  not  know  what  to  charge  for  a  prescription,  because  you 
have  not  standardized  the  operation  of  compounding.  It  is  difficult, 
that  is  why  it  has  not  been  done,  but  it  can  be  done. 
The  seventh  and  last  practical  principle  is  written  standard  prac- 
tice instructions.  School  text  books,  periodicals  and  the  pharma- 
copoeia are  written  standard  practice  instructions. 
It  is  a  difficult  thing  to  change  one's  style  of  doing  anything; 
therefore,  it  is  necessary  to  strike  a  form,  and  to  do  this  definite 
instructions  must  be  carefully  followed  until  it  can  be  done  with 
little  or  no  conscious  effort. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  Quarterly  Review  of  Some  of  the  More  Interesting  Litera- 
ture Relating  to  Pharmacy  and  Materia  Medica. 
By  Martin  I.  Wilbert,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Interest  in  matters  relating  to  pharmacy  appears  to  be  about 
equally  divided  between  progress  in  the  revision  of  the  Pharmaco- 
poeia of  the  United  States  and  matters  relating  to  legislation  designed 
to  further  restrict  the  sale  of  opium,  cocaine,  and  other  potent  or 
habit- forming  drugs. 
Two  additional  instalments  of  abstracts  of  proposed  changes 
with  new  standards  and  descriptions  for  the  United  States  Pharma- 
copoeia, ninth  revision,  have  been  published  and  distributed.  The 
first  of  these,  a  pamphlet  of  59  pages,  designated  Part  II,  embraces 
most  of  the  drugs  of  vegetable  and  animal  origin  and  presents  more 
comprehensive  changes  than  any  one  of  the  other  instalments  of 
changes  so  far  published. 
The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  London  (1914,  vol.  84,  p.  565),  in 
commenting  on  the  proposed  changes  in  the  pharmacognosy  of  the 
U.  S.  P.,  voices  the  opinion  that  the  general  indications  are  that  the 
monographs  in  the  U.  S.  P.  IX  will  be  quite  an  advance  upon  those 
included  in  the  present  Pharmacopoeia. 
Part  III  of  the  abstract  of  proposed  changes  embraces  most  of 
the  waters,  solutions,  spirits,  extracts,  fluidextracts,  resins,  tinctures, 
and  miscellaneous  galenicals.  Pharmacists  generally  will  be  pleased 
to  learn  that  all  of  the  important  changes  proposed  for  the  several 
official  galenical  preparations  can  be  adequately  reflected  in  somewhat 
