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Excerpt from Digest of Comments on the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America (Eighth Decennial Revision) And the National Formulary (Third Edition) For the Calendar Year Ending December 31, 1908 The pharmacopoeial literature for the year 1908 is particularly noteworthy for contributions that should serve to arouse a wide Spread demand for international uniformity, not only in the strength of official medicaments, but also in nomenclature and the require ments made in connection with chemical tests to establish the identity and purity of official articles. With the progress of pharmacopoeial work the importance of greater uniformity in nomenclature becomes more and more evident, and the need for some international agreement in regard to Latin titles would appear to be highly desirable. The rapidity with which medical literature travels and the speed with which new discoveries become general property should serve to suggest the desirability of some concerted attempt, in the near future, to correct existing abuses in connection with the nomenclature of official drugs and prepa rations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.