186 BRITISH AND UNITED STATES PHARMACOPOEIAS. 
same principle of brevity in nomenclature, enforced and 
adopted in 1820, in our first Pharmacopoeia, and carried out in 
1830, has been still adhered to. This is shown by the follow- 
ing list of newly introduced names, those in italics having 
been previously adopted in one or more of the British Phar- 
macopoeias : Absinthium, Althaea, Cataria, Chondrus, Di- 
osma, Matricaria, Melissa, Panax, Papaver, Pareira, Py- 
re thrum, Ruta, Sabadilla, Salvia, and Sambitcus. 
Thus then it appears that the principle of brief names for 
vegetable medicines, independent of botanical titles and 
changes, has become more and more extended in its applica- 
tion with the appearance of every revised edition of the British 
and United States Pharmacopoeias. This remark does not 
apply to the Dublin Pharmacopoeia, which has not been pub- 
lished since 1826 ; but it is hoped that a revision of that work, 
after the lapse of sixteen years, will shortly be made, and that 
the principle of reform in nomenclature, here advocated, will 
be adopted and applied as extensively as possible. If this be 
done, a great advance will be made towards uniformity of 
names, and the desirable result of one Pharmacopoeia for the 
British Empire. 
Our Pharmacy is so connected with that of Great Britain, 
that we cannot be insensible to the benefits which would accrue 
from the substitution of one for three British Pharmacopoeias. 
If the three British Colleges could agree upon a common 
nomenclature, and the discrepancies, in this respect, are every 
day disappearing, the only remaining task would be to make 
the equivalent preparations of the three Colleges identical. 
The common basis of the three Pharmacopoeias, having thus the 
same nomenclature and the same preparations, nothing would 
remain but to add the medicines and preparations, peculiar to 
any one, or any two of the works. These additions might 
be surplusage, in relation to the wants of certain sections of the 
British Empire; but they would do no harm, so long as every 
thing that might be wanted by any one section, could be 
found in the joint work. 
With the preceding remarks on the nomenclature of vege- 
