Am.  Jour.  Pharm. I 
December,  1905.  J 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
583 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME    OF    THE    LITERATURE    RELATING  TO 
PHARMACY. 
By  M.  L  WllyBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
The  recently  issued  Eighth  Decennial  Revision  of  the  Pharmaco- 
poeia of  the  United  States  continues  to  be  a  favorite  subject  for 
discussion  in  the  pharmaceutical,  and  also  to  a  very  marked  degree 
in  the  medical,  journals  of  this  country.  The  book  itself  continues 
to  be  favorably  spoken  of  and  is  generally  accepted  as  being  the 
most  comprehensive  as  well  as  the  most  generally  accurate  ot  the 
pharmacopoeias  so  far  published.  Various  portions  of  the  con- 
tents of  the  book,  it  is  true,  are  being  rather  freely  discussed  and 
criticised,  but  as  the  criticisms  that  have  so  far  appeared  are 
almost  entirely  of  details  of  descriptions  and  tests,  they  do  not  in 
any  way  reflect  on  the  general  excellence  and  reliability  of  the 
book,  nor  will  they  in  any  way  interfere  with  the  accepted  adapta- 
bility of  the  book  to  the  practice  of  pharmacy  as  it  is  carried  on  in 
the  United  States  at  the  present  time. 
Spanish  Edition  of  the  U.S.P. — The  desirability  of  a  Spanish  edi- 
tion of  the  present  official  U.S.P.  has  been  repeatedly  suggested, 
and  the  various  uses  and  the  needs  for  such  an  edition  have  been  re- 
ferred to  on  various  occasions.  That  such  an  edition  would  be  of 
inestimable  value  from  an  educational  point  of  view  is  generally 
conceded,  but  the  advisability  of  the  undertaking  as  a  business  ven- 
ture has  been  seriously  questioned.  A  resolution  adopted  at  the 
meeting  of  the  International  Sanitary  Conference  of  the  Pan-Ameri- 
can Republics,  held  in  Washington,  October  12,  1 905,  may  possibly 
suggest  a  way  for  securing  the  necessary  funds  by  appealing  to  the 
now  existing  Bureau  of  Pan-American  Republics  with  the  ultimate 
object  of  providing  an  International  Pan-American  Pharmacopoeia. 
Spanish  Pharmacopeia. — The  seventh  edition  of  the  official  Span- 
ish Pharmacopoeia  was  announced  as  having  been  published,  by  the 
permanent  Revision  Committee  of  the  Royal  Academy,  under  date 
of  June  20,  1905.  Under  date  of  June  21,  1905,  the  president  of  the 
Royal  Academy  announces  that  the  book  has  met  with  the  approval 
of  H.  M.  the  King,  and  "  that  the  said  edition  of  the  Spanish 
Pharmacopoeia  be  henceforth  official  for  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine and  pharmacy  throughout  the  Kingdom,  and  that  its  posses- 
