The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI. & XXII. Victoria, CAP. XC. (1858) and XXV. & XXVI. Victoria, CAP. XCI. (1862).

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: The British pharmacopoeia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Acts XXI. & XXII. Victoria, CAP. XC. (1858) and XXV. & XXVI. Victoria, CAP. XCI. (1862). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PEBFAOE TO THE BEITISH PHAKMACOPCEIA, 1867. By the Medical Act of 1858, section 54, it is enacted * that the General Council shall cause to be published under their direction a Book containing; a list of medi- cines and compounds, and the manner of preparing them, together with the true weights and measures by which they are to be prepared and mixed, and containing such other matter and things relating thereto as the General Council shall think fit, to be called British Pharma- copoeia ; and the General Council shall cause to be altered, amended, and republished, such Pharmacopoeia as often as they shall deem it necessary.' And by a subsequent Act, the 25th and 26th Victoria, cap. 91, which recites amongst other things that different Pharmacopoeias have hitherto been in use in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and that the Pharmacopoeia to be pubHshed by the General Council is intended to supersede the above-mentioned Pharmacopoeias, it is enacted that * the British Pharmacopoeia, when published, shall for all purposes be deemed to be substituted throughout Great