The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / by authority of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia, held at Washington, A.D. 1860.

Date:
1864
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / by authority of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia, held at Washington, A.D. 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    is sometimes departed from, in order to give a scientific sequence to some of the preparations. But the alphabetical and scientific arrangements are incompatible with each other; and, as the Committee had to choose between them, they decided in favour of the former, both in reference to the classes and the members under each class, as best fitted to render the work of practical utility. The changes in the Latin ofiicinal names are given in the fifth Table. The gender of the names of salts is changed from masculine to feminine, as conforming to the best latinity. This has given rise to slight changes in several names, consist- ing in making the adjectives agree with the gender adopted. The termination uretuui, except in Sulphuretum, has been altered to uidum, which gives the new titles Cyanidum and Ferrocyanidum. Wherever the word leaf is required to be rendered in Latin, Folium is used. Calumba, as the prevalent Latin name for this root, has been substituted for Colomba, and Pulvis Ipecacuanhse Compositus for Pulvis Ipecacuanhse et Opii, to conform to the universal British usage, and to favour the uniform application of the same name to an important prep- aration. Sweet spirit of nitre, the Spiritus iEtheris Nitrici of the Pharmacopoeia of 1850, does not contain nitric acid. It is assumed by the Committee to contain the teroxide of nitrogen, called frequently hyponitrous acid, but more properly nitrous acid. The latter name for the acid in question being preferred by the Committee, the name of this ether has been changed from Spiritus JStheris Nitrici to Spiritus JStheris Nitrosi. The Table under consideration clearly exhibits the cases in which one old name has its equivalent in two or more new names. The division of aloes into the three kinds, generally