British pharmacopoeia, 1914 / published under the direction of the General council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom.

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1914
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Credit: British pharmacopoeia, 1914 / published under the direction of the General council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Governments and Administrations of the Empire, asldng for the co-operation of their respective Medical and Pharma- ceutical Authorities in the work of adapting the new Pharma- copoeia to the requirements of all parts of the British Domm- ions. In preparing the text of the Pharmacopoeia the most careful consideration has been given to a large num- ber of suggestions which, in response to these inquiries, have been received, through the Secretaries of State, from these Medical and Pharmaceutical Authorities, and in particular from those of South AustraUa, Fiji, Falkland Islands, Bahamas, British Honduras, British Guiana, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Leeward Islands, Natal, Orange Free State Province, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, Gambia, British Central Africa (now Nyasaland Protectorate), Malta, Hong Kong and Weihaiwei, Mauritius, Straits Settlements, India, Transvaal, Western Austraha, Cape Town, Ceylon, New Zealand. The Council has made constant use of important practical researches which have been carried on by British phar- macists at the request, in many instances, of the Phar- macopoeia Committee of the Council, the Pharmacopoeia Conference, or the Committee of Reference in Pharmacy. The following publications have had a special bearing on the work of revision : ' A Digest of Researches and Criticisms,' by Dr John Attfield, F.R.S., 1900. ' Digest of Researches and Criticisms,' by W. Chatta- way, F.I.C., 1903. 'Report and Recommendations with reference to the Tests for the Detection of Arsenic in the Drugs of the British Pharmacopoeia,' by Professor W. R. Dunstan, C.M.G., M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., and H. H. Robinson, M.A., F.C.S.