Abstract
THE materia medica in use throughout the British Empire can be divided into two groups, those admitted to, and those excluded from, the “British Pharmacopoeia”, 1932. The second group is, on the whole, the more interesting, if only for the reason that the pharmacopoeial drugs should be approaching the stage at which there is little more that can be said about their nature, composition and therapeutic value, though this is obviously not the case with such drugs as ergot and digitalis, whilst the unofficial drugs at the worst are declining into objects of historical medical interest, and at the best may be destined to attain pharmacopoeial eminence in due course, or may even be the harbingers of therapeutic revolutions.
The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1934: an Imperial Dispensatory for the Use of Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists.
Pp. xxv + 1768. (London: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1934.) 35s. net.
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H., T. The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1934: an Imperial Dispensatory for the Use of Medical Practitioners and Pharmacists . Nature 135, 454 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135454a0
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