The British pharmacopœia / published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act (1858).

Date:
1885
    THE BRITISH PHARIACOPCEIA, PUBLISHED DXDEK THE DIRECTION OF THE aENEKAL COUNCIL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND REGISTRATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, '§mmmt to tfj^ Sl^bital %d (1858). 1885. Irinleh anJr publis^fb far tlje ilcbical ComrtH BY SPOTTISWOODE k CO., GRACECHURCH STREET. LONDON. 1885.
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    THE GENEEAL COUNCIL OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND HEGISTmiON Of THE UNITED KINGDOM. Januaby, 1885. President—Sib. HENEY WENTWOETH ACLAND, M.D., K.C.B. Sir Henry Alfred Pitman, M.D a) .£3 O a O John Marshall .... Edward Bradford Thomas King Chambers, M.D. George Murray Humphry, M.D. Thomas Thompson Pyle, M.D. John Storrar, M.D. Daniel Eutherford Haldane, M.D Patrick Heron Watson, M.D. EoBERT Scott Orr, M.D. John Strdthers, M.D. James Bell Pettigrew, M.D. Aquilla Smith, M.H . Eawdon Macnamara Thomas Collins .... Eev. Samuel Haughton, M.D. John Thomas Banks, M.D. . ElCHARD QUAIN, M.D. . John Simon, C.B. Thomas Pridgin Teale, M.A. ] James Matthews Duncan, M.D. .' Andrew Fergus, M.D. . . „ Egbert Dyer Lyons, M.D., M.P. (_ ^ -Eoyal College of Physicians of London. Eoyal College of Surgeons of Eng- land. Apothecaries' Society of London. University of Oxford. University of Cambridge. University of Durham.. University of London. 'Eoyal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Eoyal College of Surgeons of Edin- burgh. Faculty of Physicians and Sur- geons of Glasgow. Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews. » r King and Queen's College of Phy- 5 sicians in Ireland. ^ I Eoyal College of Surgeons in Ire- o land. Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland. University of Dublin. ^ l Eoyal University of Ireland. a Her Majesty, with the advice of her Privy Council. WILLIAM JOHN CLAEKE MILLEE, B.A., Registrar.
    *^* For lists of additions to, omissions from, and other alterations as regards the previous Pharmacopoeia, see pages xxi to xxvi.
    TO THB BEITISH PHAEMACOPCEIA, 1885. The interval which has elapsed since the publication of the British Pharmacopoeia in 1867 has been productive of changes relating to the matter and objects of that work which have rendered its revision and reproduction necessary. Not only have many new remedies been in- troduced into medical practice, which seemed to call for official recognition, but of those which had already received such recognition there are many with regard to which much extended knowledge has been acquired as to their sources and scientific characters, as well as of the methods by which they may be best prepared for use in medicine. In the production of the present edition of the Phar- macopoeia pains have been taken to bring the whole of the matter up to the existing state of knowledge. No change has been made in the arrangement or the general construction of the work. • In the method ad- opted for representing the composition, and in some cases the assumed constitution, of certain bodies of definite chemical nature by symboHc formulae, the old system, which, as well as the new, was previously adopted, having