ADecember!^89T'}    Pharmacopoeias  and  Dispensatories.  639. 
Convention  of  2d  Revision,  1840  (279  pages),  was  issued  from  Philadelphia. 
"         "  3d        "        1850  (317  pages),  was  issued  from  Philadelphia.1 
"  4th        "        i860  (399  pages),  was  issued  from  Philadelphia. 
"  5th       "        1870  (383  pages),  was  issued  from  Philadelphia. 
"  6th        "        1880  (488  pages),  was  issued  from  New  York. 
"         "  7th  1890  (602  pages),  was  issued  from  Philadelphia. 
1822. — Dr.  Jacob  Bigelow  issued  "  A  treatise  containing  422 
pages,  intended  as  a  sequel  to  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United 
States."  This  book  is  somewhat  of  the  nature  of  a  Dispensatory 
confined  to  Pharmacopoeial  drugs. 
1880.  — Dr.  Chas.  Rice  presented  a  Report  (199  pages)  on  the 
Revision  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia ;  this  work  was  titled 
"  General  Principles,  Titles  and  Working  Formulas  Prepared  for  the 
Next  Pharmacopoeia." 
188 1.  — "  An  Unofficial  Pharmacopoeia,"  etc.  By  Prof.  Oscar  Old- 
berg.  This  work  of  503  pages  is  largely  devoted  to  the  Metric  System'; 
Part  I,  59  pages,  being  "The  Metric  System;"  and  Part  III,  134 
pages,  being  titled  "  Metric  Prescription  Formulary."  The  tables 
and  rules  for  conversion  of  metric  weights  and  measures  into  other 
systems  are  very  complete.  Possibly,  I  should  have  placed  this 
work  among  the  Formularies. 
i88g. — The  Pharmacopoeial  Committee  issued  a  "  Digest  of 
Criticisms  of  the  Sixth  Decennial  Revision,"  Part  I  containing 
189  pages,  Part  II  containing  86  pages.  Part  III  dated  1890  con- 
taining 335  pages. 
1892. —  The  Pharmacopoeial  Committee  issued  a  pamphlet  (40 
pages)  on  "  Reagents  and  Volumetric  Solutions  Proposed  for  the 
U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia." 
AMERICAN  DISPENSATORIES. 
1806. — The  first  American  Dispensatory  was  issued  by  Dr.  John 
Redman  Coxe,  of  Philadelphia,  in  1806.  It  was  titled  "The  Ameri- 
can Dispensatory."  There  were  nine  editions,  the  last  appearing  in 
1 83 1.    Its  text  and  contents  are  clear  and  concise. 
1810. — The  second  American  Dispensatory  was  issued  by  Dr. 
James  Thacher,  of  Plymouth,  Mass.,  in  1 810,  under  the  auspices  of 
1  In  1855  a  second  edition  of  1850  Pharmacopoeia  was  issued,  the  first  edition 
having  been  exhausted.  This,  as  stated  in  the  preface,  was  "printed  in  a  smaller 
and  less  expensive  form,"  but  the  committee  did  not  "consider  themselves 
authorized  to  make  additions  or  considerable  changes."  The  writer  considers 
himself  fortunate  in  possessing  the  interleaved  autograph  copy  of  Prof.  Wm. 
Procter,  freely  interspersed  with  his  personal  criticisms,  donated  by  his  son, 
Wallace  Procter. 
