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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(  A. to.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1      March,  1906. 
tains  some  additional  information  of  interest  in  connection  with  this 
book.  The  Pharmacopoeia  itself  is  said  to  contain  1080  separate 
titles,  and  is  printed  entirely  in  the  Spanish  language,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  subtitles,  which  are  in  Latin. 
The  metric  system  of  weights  and  measures  is  used  exclusively 
for  the  first  time.  The  descriptions  of  a  number  of  alkaloidal  drugs 
contain  minimum  requirements  for  alkaloidal  content  but  no  detailed 
descriptions  of  assay  are  appended.  Wherever  practicable  chemical 
formulae  with  molecular  weights  are  also  included,  the  atomic 
weights  being  based  on  o  =  16. 
The  Spanish  Pharmacopoeia  includes  suggestions  on  the  thera- 
peutic action  and  uses  of  drugs,  also  an  enumeration  of  doses. 
Among  the  tables  found  in  this  pharmacopoeia  is  one  enumerating 
the  comparative  size  of  drops  of  various  galenicals,  delivered  from 
the  proposed  international  standard  dropper  having  an  outer  diame- 
ter of  3  mm. 
The  recommendations  of  the  International  Conference  for  the 
Unification  of  the  Formulae  of  Potent  Medicaments  have  been  gen- 
erally closely  followed  and  the  Spanish  Pharmacopoeia  is  therefore 
the  first  to  officially  recognize  these  proposed  standards  in  Europe. 
Of  the  new  remedies  the  Spanish  Pharmacopoeia  includes,  among 
others,  antipyrin,  aristol,  betol,  bromoform,  creolin,  cresylol,  derma- 
tol,  digitalin,  diuretin,  diastase,  euchinin,  exalgin,  euphorin,  guaiacol, 
guaiacol  carbonate,  ichthyol,  iodol,  naphthol,  peptone,  sulfonal, 
trional,  urethrane,  and  xeroform. 
The  Spanish  apothecary  has  been  shown  the  consideration  of 
being  expected  to  have  a  high  degree  of  efficiency,  for  while  the 
requirements  for  purity  of  the  several  substances  are  high  the  details 
for  determining  the  purity  of  these  substances  are  left  to  the  choice 
of  the  operator. 
Austrian  Pharmacopoeia. — The  eighth  edition  of  the  Austrian 
Pharmacopoeia  has  finally  been  published  and  it  is  announced  that 
it  is  to  become  official  on  and  after  July  1,  1906. 
This  new,  eighth,  edition  of  the  Austrian  Pharmacopoeia  contains 
627  official  articles,  or,  if  we  add  the  fifty-four  articles  contained  in 
the  appendix  and  the  nine  descriptions  of  surgical  dressings,  it  con- 
tains a  total  of  690  titles.  , 
Among  other  novel  features  that  are  embodied  in  this  edition  of 
the  Austrian  Pharmacopoeia  we  find  directions  for  sterilizing  various 
