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OFFICIAL pharmacopœias are necessarily restricted in their scope, and there are many drugs and other articles used in medicine which for good reasons find no place in them. Hence there is a recognised need for such supplementary books as the “Extra Pharmacopoeia,” which deal more freely than the official works do with medicinal preparations, appliances, new methods, and so forth. The fact that Martindale and Westcott's work has reached a seventeenth edition is sufficient indication that it meets a want. The single volume of the earlier editions developed into two volumes some years ago, and the most important of these (vol. i.) has become somewhat more bulky than of yore; but it can still be slipped into an overcoat pocket, in spite of its 1154 pages.
The Extra Pharmacopoeia of Martindale and Westcott.
Revised by Dr. W. Harrison Martindale and Dr. W. Wynn Westcott. Seventeenth edition. (In two volumes.) Vol. i., pp. xxxix + 1115. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1920.) Price 27s. net.
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The Extra Pharmacopoeia of Martindale and Westcott . Nature 106, 276 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106276b0
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