CODEX, OR FRENCH PHARMACOPOEIA. 
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REVIEW. 
ART. XLIV. — CODEX,— -PHARMACOPEE FRANCAISE, redigee 
par ordre du Gouvernement, par ime Commission composee de MM. 
Les Professeurs de la Faculte de Medecine, et de L'Ecole Speciale de 
Pharmacie de Paris. Paris, 1837. 
CODEX, OR FRENCH PHARMACOPCE1A, compiled by order of 
the Government, by a Committee, consisting of the Professors of the 
Faculty of Medicine, and of the School of Pharmacy of Paris. Paris, 
1837. 
A work of the character of that whose title is prefixed, 
emanating from the source whence it is declared to have 
issued, and bearing the official sanction of a government 
whose efforts have been continually directed to the elevation 
and promotion of science in every department, ought naturally 
to be regarded as complete in its execution, and perfect in its 
formulae and classification. 
Whether this perfection has been obtained by the authors of 
the Codex, our readers will themselves have an opportunity 
afforded for determining, from theanalysis of it which we design 
to present them, attended, perhaps, by a few comments of our 
own. 
That such an authorized work should comprise every thing 
necessary for the pharmaceutist to provide, every direction for 
the preparation of officinal compounds, every caution against 
deterioration or decay, every direction conveyed in precise 
and perspicuous terms, and in fine, every means which can be 
employed to render the dispensation and preparation of reme- 
dies safe, uniform, and excellent, is most obvious, and requires 
but one single remark to establish its necessity. 
This Pharmacopoeia, thus put forth under the sanction of 
the government, becomes the acknowledged standard of prac- 
tice, to an observance of whose formulae and requisitions im- 
plicit obedience is due, and invariable regard is demanded. 
Unlike our own National Pharmacopoeia, which is the result 
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