Criticisms  of  the  U.S. P. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharra. 
I  September,  1906. 
LISTS  OF  PREPARATIONS  MISSED. 
A  change  that  will  be  noted  especially  by  physicians  and  students, 
but  also  by  pharmacists,  is  the  omission  of  the  lists  of  preparations 
of  the  various  drugs.  In  a  sense  these  are  relatively  unimportant, 
but  we  believe  the  majority  of  the  physicians  would  vote  for  their 
restoration.    (Am.  Med.,  August  19,  1905,  page  295.) 
A  USELESS  PREPARATION  OF  STAPHISAGRIA. 
There  is  a  notable  exception  to  the  excellence  of  the  pharmacy 
of  the  book  in  the  case  of  staphisagria.  Though  that  drug  is  now 
rarely  employed  internally,  to  the  best  of  our  information,  the  only 
preparation  of  it  authorized  is  a  fluid  extract,  the  average  dose  of 
which  is  given  as  1  minim.  We  venture  to  say  that  staphisagria 
will  continue  to  be  used  chiefly  as  a  parasiticide,  and  that  the  fluid 
extract  will  not  be  found  an  eligible  preparation  for  that  purpose. 
(New  York  Med.  Jour.,  August  5,  1905,  page  286.) 
OBJECTIONS  TO  SOME  OF  THE  NEW  ADDITIONS. 
Acid  Camphoric. — Presumably  introduced  out  of  deference  to  Ger- 
man opinion,  as  it  is  not  very  extensively  used  here. 
Acid  Trichloracetic. — Much  used  as  a  test  reagent  for  albumen  and 
as  a  topical  application,  but  there  does  not  seem  to  be  any  special 
reason  for  including  it  in  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
Aithyl  Carbamate. — More  familiar  under  the  name  of  Urethane. 
Its  inclusion  comes  as  a  surprise,  for  it  is  rapidly  falling  into  disuse. 
Cataplasma  Kaolina. — The  modern  substitute  for  the  old-fash- 
ioned  flaxseed  poultice.  Its  introduction  comes  as  a  surprise,  as  the 
use  of  these  clay  poultices  has  occasioned  much  criticism,  and  is  by 
some  considered  as  a  distinct  retrograde  step  in  modern  thera- 
peutics. The  commercial  kaolin,  which  constitutes  the  basis  of  this 
compound,  makes  a  nasty,  dirty-looking  mass,  and  the  official 
product  might  have  had  more  glycerin  added  with  advantage.  It 
is  too  stiff. 
Ceratum  Resince  Comp. — A  resurrection  of  the  old  Deshler's  salve, 
official  in  the  1870  Pharmacopoeia,  which  might  have  been  allowed 
to  rest  in  peace.  It  is  hardly  a  fit  representative  of  twentieth  cen- 
tury pharmacy. 
Chloralformamidum — The  chemical  term  for  chloralamide.  More 
