Am.  Jour.  Pharm.  1 
March,  1906.  i 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
dies  that  even  a  simple  enumeration  of  them  would  be  too  extensive 
to  attempt  at  this  time;  the  single  matter  of  international  standards 
alone  should  prove  to  offer  strong  argument. 
The  advantages  that  must  necessarily  accrue  from  the  now  gener- 
ally adopted  standards  for  potent  medicaments  should  necessarily 
appeal  to  every  reader  of  medical  journals,  and  a  physician  who  does 
not  read  medical  journals  is,  of  course,  absolutely  hopeless.  This  is 
all  the  more  evident  when  we  remember  that  despite  their  general 
antiquity  the  potent  remedies  that  were  endorsed  by  the  Interna- 
tional Conference  at  Brussels  in  1902  are  in  reality  the  most  widely 
used  as  well  as  the  most  generally  reliable  medicaments  now  avail- 
able. 
It  should  not  be  forgotten,  of  course,  that  many  pharmacists  have 
already  done  good  service  in  this  connection  by  bringing  the 
changes  in  the  present  edition  of  the  U.S. P.  to  the  attention  of  phy- 
sicians, but,  this  is  only  a  feeble  beginning  and  unless  it  is  followed 
up  frequently  and  persistently  by  word  of  mouth  and  by  actual 
demonstration  it  will  be  of  little  avail. 
With  a  view  of  bringing  the  U.S.P.  more  directly  to  the  attention 
of  medical  students  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Committee  on  Re- 
vision have  decided  to  present  the  professors  of  materia  medica  in 
medical  colleges  with  complimentary  copies  of  that  book.  This 
seemingly  trivial  outlay  should  be  of  great  value  to  American  phar- 
macy, as  it  will,  no  doubt,  tend  to  familiarize  future  generations  of 
medical  men  with  the  fact  that  such  a  book  as  a  Pharmacopceia  of 
the  United  States  actually  exists,  that  it  is  periodically  revised,  and 
that,  all  in  all,  it  may  safely  be  considered  as  the  standard  for  reliable 
and  efficient  medication. 
Spanish  Edition  of  the  U.S.P. — This  desirable  innovation  was  also 
definitely  decided  on  at  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
U.S.P.,  held  in  Pittsburg,  December  2,  1905.  A  committee  consist- 
ing of  Prof.  J.  P.  Remington,  Chas.  E.  Dohme  and  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood, 
was  appointed  to  make  preliminary  arrangements  for  an  edition  of 
2,000  copies.  Of  the  foreign  pharmacopoeias  that  are  now  under- 
going revision  the  French  Codex  and  the  Swiss  Pharmacopceia  are 
announced  as  being  in  press,  and  will  probably  be  issued  in  the 
course  of  the  next  year. 
The  New  Spanish  Pharmacopoeia. — A  recently  published  review 
of  the  Spanish  Pharmacopceia  (Pkar.  Zeit'g.,  1905,  page  1060)  con- 
