Indian and colonial addendum to the British pharmacopoeia 1898 / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.

  • General Medical Council.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Indian and colonial addendum to the British pharmacopoeia 1898 / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the Council, and were regarded as preparatory to the ultimate production of a complete Imperial Pharma- copoeia. A further step is now taken by the publication of the present Addendum, in which medicinal plants and other substances suggested for inclusion by Indian and Colonial authorities are dealt with more fully than was possible in 1898. With regard to the sources, preparations, and properties of some of these drugs, further investigation, especially in the countries in which they are found, is much to be desired; and it is hoped that their official recognition will conduce to research of this kind. The Addendum is thus to a certain extent pro- visional ; it is supplementary to the British Pharma- copoeia 1898: but it is also to be regarded as preliminary to the next Pharmacopoeia, with which its contents, sub- ject to such improvements as increased knowledge and experience may indicate, will probably be incorporated. It is intended by the Medical Council that the drugs and preparations included in the Addendum shall be prescribed by the medical practitioner according to his own judgment of their value. It is not intended that they shall be substituted by the dispenser or pharmacist for more or less similar articles already included in the Pharmacopoeia, except in those cases only where authority for such substitution is expressly given in the text. Each article has accordingly been described under a distinctive name, and the divisions of the Empire within which it now acquires official sanction are indi- cated at the foot of the description. Wherever in the Addendum medicinal substances, official preparations, pharmaceutical processes, or ana-