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desires  to  see  continued  the  work  toward  the  unification  of  Pharma- 
copoeias so  happily  inaugurated  by  the  Brussels  Conference  for  the 
unification  of  heroic  medicines.  Considering  that  an  International 
Congress  is  not  qualified  to  give  a  pronounced  opinion  as  to  the  work 
to  be  done  by  a  similar  institution,  the  second  section  asks  the  general 
meeting  to  appoint  a  commission,  to  submit  within  two  months  an 
organization  scheme  for  an  International  Pharmacopoeial  Bureau. 
The  scheme  elaborated  by  this  commission  will  be  transmitted  to  the 
office  of  the  International  Pharmaceutical  Federation,  which  within 
a  month  will  communicate  it  for  examinations  to  the  official  Commis- 
sions of  the  Pharmacopoeias  of  the  different  countries. — Chem.  & 
Drug.,  1913,  v.  83,  p.  490. 
The  invitation  presented  by  Prof.  A.  Tschirch  to  hold  the  Twelfth 
International  Pharmaceutical  Congress  in  the  city  of  Berne,  Switzer- 
land, was  adopted  at  the  concluding  session  of  the  Congress  and  the 
question  of  date  was  referred  to  the  International  Federation  of 
Pharmaceutical  Societies. 
Narcotic  Drugs. — C.  E.  Terry,  Health  Officer  for  Jacksonville, 
Fla.,  in  a  paper  on  "  drug  habitues  and  their  bearing  on  the  public 
health  and  welfare,"  read  before  the  American  Health  Association 
at  Colorado  Springs,  laid  the  blame  for  drug  victims  upon  physicians. 
He  stated  that  50  per  cent,  of  drug-users  become  so  through  taking 
drugs  prescribed  during  illness,  and  declared  that  physicians  are  more 
dangerous  than  druggists  in  this  respect.  He  favored  State  legisla- 
tion to  further  physicians  and  druggists  minimizing  the  practice  of 
prescribing  strong  drugs  to  those  addicted  to  their  use. — Pharm.  Era, 
1913,  v.  46,  p.  508. 
Mixtures  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia. — Osborne,  Oliver 
T. :  Seriously  questions  the  advisability  of  including  in  the  Pharma- 
copoeia of  the  United  States  a  number  of  the  now  official  complex 
mixtures  because  many  of  the  ingredients  are  needless  and  useless. 
In  fact  it  is  generally  recognized  that  these  complex  mixtures  them- 
selves are  unscientific. — 7.  Am.  M.  Assoc.,  19 13,  v.  61,  pp.  1 289-1 293. 
Norwegian  Pharmacopoeia. — Den  Norske  Farmakope,  1913  :  The 
fourth  edition  of  this  Pharmacopoeia  has  been  finally  issued  and  will 
be  official  from  January  1,1914.  It  will  replace  the  work  published 
in  1895,  so  that  with  the  exception  of  Portugal,  Great  Britain  now 
possesses  the  oldest  Pharmacopoeia  now  in  force.  In  accordance 
with  an  existing  agreement,  the  Latin  nomenclature  is  in  accord  with 
that  of  the  other  Scandinavian  countries,  Sweden  and  Denmark, 
