190 BRITISH AND UNITED STATES PHARMACOPOEIAS. 
and Uvse passas, of their former Pharmacopoeia. But it 
may be asked, why have they not adopted Coccus, Ficus, 
Galla, Limon, Morum, Prunum, and Testa, for Cocci, 
Fici, Qallse, Limones, Mora, Pruna, and Testae. Coccus 
and Galla were probably intended to be used ; for these 
names are always employed in the singular in the prepara- 
tions, and Coccus was the name in the Pharmacopoeia of 1824. 
If Aurantium be correctly applied by the College as the 
name for orange, surely Ldmon must be the correct name 
for lemon, Fiats for Jigs, Morum for mulberry, and 
Prunum for prunes. Indeed, " Morum" is the officinal ti- 
tle for mulberry, so far as it may be inferred from the name of 
one of the preparations, " Syrupus Mori." To be consistent 
with the title for mulberry in the Materia Medica, " Mora," 
the name of this preparation should have been Syrupus Mo- 
rorum, like " Syrupus Limonum." 
The London College have committed an error in calling 
the fruit of the Momordica Elaterium, by the name of Elate- 
rium, and the medicine, which is universally called elaterium, 
by the title of Extractum Elaterii. The substance deposit- 
ed from the juice of the wild cucumber is not, properly speak- 
ing, an extract. This attempt to give a new meaning to the 
word elaterium cannot succeed. The College, no doubt, felt 
it themselves to be a difficulty, when they begin the formula 
for their so-called extract of elaterium, with the words "Ela- 
terii Pepones scinde," instead of Elaterium scinde." 
The London College have included Limonum Succus in 
the list of the Materia Medica. If this be right, then " Mo- 
rorum Succus" and "Rhamni Succus,'' titles used in the prepar- 
ations at page 161, should have been included also. The 
Materia Medica list would have been rendered more com* 
plete by the insertion of " Aqua," as is done in the U. S. 
Pharmacopoeia, and recently in that of Edinburgh. The 
London College have committed an oversight in the formula 
for Ceratum Calaminae, in which " Calamina" is used, instead 
of " Calamina Praeparata." "Unguentum Zinci" is an injudi- 
cious name for an ointment, made of oxide of zinc and lard. 
