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THE Appendix to the recently published War Memorandum by the Medical Research Council on “Economy in the Use of Drugs in War-Time”(H.M. Stationery Office. 3d. net) is of more durable interest than the body of the Memorandum, since it proposes a long-term plan for the cultivation of medicinal plants, whereas the special need for economy in the prescription of scarce drugs will pass with the emergency. The Appendix consists of two lists of drugs the cultivation of which in the British Empire should be encouraged. The first list relates to domestic production and the second to production in the Colonial Empire. It is not proposed to comment, in this note, on all the items named in the Appendix, but to make a few observations based upon the results of experimental work designed to ascertain whether it is feasible to cultivate economically and on a commercial scale, either at home or in some Empire country overseas, certain medicinal plants for the supply of which Great Britain has paid tribute in the past to foreign nations.
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Production of Drugs Within the British Empire. Nature 147, 393 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147393a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147393a0