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and  with  a  freedom  from  mingling  of  lines  which  renders  some  of  the 
subsidiary  works  unsuitable  for  the  busy  laboratory  worker.  It 
may  also  be  said  that  as  judges  and  attorneys  come  to  know  more 
about  the  pharmacopoeia  and  its  functions,  decisions  will  be  rendered 
upon  what  it  says  and  not  upon  what  the  dispensatories  say  that  it 
says.  We  can  unhesitatingly  recommend  the  new  book  to  all 
readers  of  the  Circular  as  being  a  work  which  it  is  of  supreme  im- 
portance to  them  that  they  possess  if  they  really  desire  to  conduct 
their  business  in  a  manner  befitting  modern  times.  It  is  a  product 
that  every  pharmacist  can  be  proud  of,  since  it  not  only  will  com- 
pare favorably  with  every  other  pharmacopoeia  in  the  world,  but  an 
unbiased  judgment  of  its  merits  will  compel  the  decision  that  it  leads 
all  others.    (The  Drug.  Circ,  1905,  p.  263.) 
THE  USE  OF  THE  PHARMACOPOEIA  BY  PHYSICIANS. 
It  has  been  a  standing  reproval  to  the  medical  profession  in  gen- 
eral that  they  have  taken  little  interest  in  this  important  work,  but 
fortunately  this  is  fast  becoming  a  matter  of  history,  and  the  time,  we 
hope,  may  not  be  far  distant  when  the  Pharmacopoeia  will  be  a  living 
part  of  every  practitioner's  armamentarium.  The  flagrant  features  of 
the  patent  medicine  evil,  so  far  as  it  is  fostered  by  the  physician  him- 
self, will  cease  to  exist  when  he  is  better  acquainted  with  this  book. 
(Medical  News,  August  19,  1905,  p.  360.) 
THE  LATIN  OF  THE  U.S.P. 
The  new  Latin  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  is  necessarily  one  of 
the  first  features  to  strike  the  *  reader.  There  are  many  eminent 
philologists  in  America,  and  the  Pharmacopoeia  revisers  have  prob- 
ably had  the  advice  of  some  of  these,  so  that  it  will  not  be  safe  to  be 
too  keenly  critical,  but  "  fluidextractum  "  can  hardly  be  Augustan. 
We  may  expect  "  Unitedstatesum  "  next.  A  single  word  to  repre- 
sent the  class  of  galenicals  is  perhaps  a  desideratum,  but  the  nation 
which  has  invented  "  vaseline,"  "tabloid  "  and  "  liquozone  "  need  not 
have  been  floored  by  such  a  simple  problem. 
"  Emulsum  "  for  "  emulsio  "  may  or  may  not  be  quite  new  just 
now ;  it  is  at  all  events  a  regrettable  change.  "  Emulsio  "  was  a 
medical  Latin  substantive,  coined  in  orthodox  fashion  from  the  verb 
