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).

Date:
1898
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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.

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    Bodies in the text of the present edition. A small number of alternative substances or preparations, the official recognition of which has been desired for local use, have been sanctioned for this purpose by their introduction into an Appendix. These steps may be regarded as preparatory to the ultimate production of a complete Imperial Pharmacoposia. The Council has in contemplation the early preparation of an Addendum, in which medicinal plants and other sub- stances suggested for inclusion by Indian and Colonial Authorities will be dealt with more fully than has now been possible. It confidently anticipates the co- operation of all Medical and Pharmaceutical Bodies in Her Majesty's Dominions for the eventual realisation of the Imperial project. No figures or detailed descriptions of plants yielding official substances are given in the text of the present edition; but references will be found, as heretofore, to the best authorities for these purposes. The histological characters of the parts of plants officially recognised have, however, been described whenever the informa- tion appeared to be required for the attainment of accuracy. In former editions, after the paragraphs on a par- ticular official article, the names of the preparations, if any, into which it entered, and their strengths, were appended; these are now given, in all important cases, in the Index. The names of official substances are usually printed either with capital initial letters or in itahcs, those with capitals being the names of substances defined