BRITISH AND UNITED STATES PH ARM ACOPCEIAS. 187 
table medicines, showing the progress of the plan of brief 
names to designate them, in the adoption of which the framers 
of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia preceded the British Colleges, we 
dismiss this division of pharmaceutical nomenclature. But 
the names of the mineral medicines have undergone, at the 
same time, a favorable change, with the result of lessening the 
number of synonymes. In proof of this we subjoin some 
names adopted by two or more of a the Pharmacopoeias noticed 
in these remarks ; the order of their adoption in the different 
works being indicated by the order of the initials. 
Acidum Arseniosum, U.S.,L. ; Calcii Chloridum, U.S.,L. ; 
Potassae Bitartras, D.,L.^E.,U S.; Sodas Carbonas, D.,U.S., 
L.,E.; Sodas Bicarbonas, D.,U.S.,E.;* Sodii Chloridum, U.S., 
L.; Ammonias Carbonas, D.,U.S.,E.;t Liquor Potassae Arse- 
nitis, U.S.,L.; Barii Chloridum, L.,U.S.; Liquor Calcii Chlo- 
ridi, L.,U.S.; Magnesia, L.,E.,U.S.,D. ; Potassae Carbonas, 
D.,U.S.,L.,E.; Potassae Bicarbonas, D.,U.S.,L.,E. j PctassiJ 
Sulphuretum, L.,U.S. 
As the Dublin Pharmacopoeia Was reviewed in the third 
volume, First Series, of this journal, we shall not further speak 
of it than to say that the nomenclature of the vegetable Ma- 
teria Medica is sadly in want of reform. From the work 
as printed, it is almost impossible to tell what name Was in- 
tended for the vegetable medicines. Thus, for example, we 
have " Foeniculum," with the addition, Vide "Anethum." 
Turning to this we find "Anethum Foeniculum. Semina." 
This last phrase is a definition, "not a pharmaceutical name f 
and if we assume " FGenieulum" to be the name of fc the medi- 
cine, then we are met with the difficulty that it is called 
"Semina Anethi Foeniculi" at pages 162 and 205, and 
" Semina Foeniculi," at pages 113 and 144. A similar hap- 
hazard nomenclature is adopted for nearly all the vegetable 
medicines, producing the greatest confusion. The framers of 
a Pharmacopoeia should indicate the name which they prefer for 
a medicine or preparation, and adhere to it throughout the 
* Sodae Sesquicarbonas, L. 
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f Ammonia; Sesquicarbonas, L» 
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