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PJiannacopana  of  Russia. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    Jiiniiarv,  1911. 
tions  of  617  official  articles.  The  official  articles  include  162  botani- 
cal drugs,  15  drugs  of  animal  origin,  195  chemical  substances,  218 
pharmaceutical  preparations  and  27  general  descriptions. 
The  general  descriptions  are  unique  in  that  they  include  not  alone 
general  descriptions  of  types  of  pharmaceutical  preparations  but  also 
descriptions  of  parts  of  plants,  such  as  seeds,  flowers,  leaves  and 
roots. 
The  Latin  nomenclature  has  much  in  common  with  that  found 
in  the  German  Pharmacopoeia,  the  new  French  Codex  and  the  new 
Swiss  Pharmacopoeia  so  that  there  is  even  here  a  promise  that  the 
future  will  bring  with  it  a  proximation  to  international  uniformity 
so  far  as  the  Latin  names  of  widely  used  substances  are  concerned, 
even  if  it  is,  perhaps,  LTtopian  to  expect  that  we  may  yet  have 
absolute  uniformity. 
Another  indication  that  bodes  well  for  the  closer  approximation 
of  the  several  national  pharmacopoeias  is  the  fact  that  this  edition 
of  the  Russian  Pharmacopoeia  like  the  ninth  edition  of  the 
Swedish  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  new  third  edition  of  the  Italian 
Pharmacopoeia  was  prepared  in  advance  of  the  usual  time  of  revision 
for  the  sole  purpose  of  including  the  provisions  of  the  Brussels' 
Conference  Protocol. 
The  agreement  adopted  at  the  Brussels  Conference  for  the  unifi- 
cation of  pharmacopoeia]  formulcX  for  potent  medicaments  is  re- 
printed entire  in  the  prefatory  pages  to  the  book,  and  the  provisions 
appear  to  have  been  generally  adopted  in  all  of  the  formulas  included 
in  the  body  of  the  pharmacopoeia  itself. 
Among  the  titles  representing  the  newer  additions  to  our  materia 
medica  we  find:  .T:thylum  bromatum.  Agar- Agar,  Ammonium  sulfo- 
ichthyolicum,  Ammonium  sozojodolicum,  Antipyrinum,  Chinosolum, 
Diuretinum  (Theobrominum-natrio-salicylicum) ,  Heroinum,  Hero- 
inum  hydrochloricum,  Phenacetinum,  Salipyrinum,  Salolum,  Serum 
antidiphthericum,  Sulfonalum,  and  Vaselinum. 
Many  of  these  titles  illustrate  the  difficuUies  that  we  will  be 
obliged  to  contend  with  for  many  years  to  come  in  developing 
names  that  are  universally  acceptable  or  applicable,  because  of  the 
widely  varying  practices  in  connection  with  trade  names  and  the 
protection  given  to  individuals,  in  different  countries,  by  laws  gov- 
erning trade-marks. 
