318  International  Pharmacopoeial  Bureau.  {  Am'ju™  ri^arm' 
69.  Chronic  Asthmatic  Bronchitis.    By  Dr.  Antonio  Cueto,  Havana.  Revista 
Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  198. 
70.  Bronchial  Asthma.    By  Dr.  Antonio  D.  Albertine,  Havana.  Revista 
Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  200. 
71.  Bronchial  Asthma.    By  Dr.  Ignacio  Benito  Plasencia,  Havana.  Revista 
Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  201. 
72.  Chronic  Gonorrhea  and  Orchiepididymitis.  By  Dr.  Antonio  Cueto,  Havana. 
Revista  Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  203. 
73.  Gonorrheal  Rheumatism.    By  Dr.  Francisco  deP.  de  Solis,  Havana. 
Revista  Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  203. 
74.  Gonorrheal  Rheumatism  of  the  right  hand.  By  Dr.  Luis  Barbero,  Havana. 
Revista  Medica  .Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  205. 
75.  Gonorrheal  Conjunctivitis  and  Iritis.    By  Dr.  Carlos  E.  Finlay,  Havana. 
Revista  Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  206. 
76.  Acute  Gonorrheal  Arthritis  of  the  left  knee.    By  C.  E.  Kohly,  Havana. 
Revista  Medica  Cubana,  April,  1913,  p.  207. 
77.  Vaccine  in  Post-operative  Pneumonia.    By  E.  S.  Allen,  M.D.,  Louisville. 
Kentucky  Med.  Jour.,  May  15,  1913,  p.  422. 
THE  NECESSITY  OF  ESTABLISHING  AN  INTER- 
NATIONAL PHARMACOPCEIAL  BUREAU.1 
By  A.  Tschirch. 
Of  the  many  ideas  advanced  by  the  thinking  and  original 
Ostwald,  the  expression  that  in  intellectual  life  energy  must  be 
conserved  is  one  of  the  most  productive  of  thought.  We  should 
not  only  be  saving  of  coal  and  water,  but  likewise  economical  of 
intellectual  power.  The  same  work  should  not  be  performed  at 
ten  different  places,  when  with  the  same  or  less  expenditure  of 
energy  it  can  be  accomplished  at  some  central  point. 
This  thought  of  Ostwald's  is  applicable  to  many  spheres  of 
endeavor,  but  to  none  so  much  as  pharmacopoeial  revision.  In  all 
civilized  lands  we  see  pharmacopoeial  committees  at  work,  all  trying 
to  attain  as  much  as  possible  a  complete  and  perfect  review  of  the 
literature  pertaining  to  pharmacy  and  materia  medica.  In  every 
land  the  whole  literature  is  scanned  to  make  the  revision  more  use- 
ful and  complete — and  in  every  land  the  work  is  done  independently 
of  other  bodies.  And  the  fact  is  conspicuously  brought  out  that  in 
the  German  publications,  the  English  and  American  journals,  and 
in  the  French,  one  only  gets  a  report  or  an  abstract  of  an  article, 
1  Translated  by  John  K.  Thum,  Ph.G. 
