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IN view of the urgent need for a comprehensive war-time formulary for the guidance of medical prescribers, it is satisfactory to learn that, at the instigation of the Ministry of Health, a strong and representative committee has been set up for the purpose of providing such a formulary for use during the emergency. The following bodies have been invited to appoint representatives: the Royal College of Physicians, the Pharmacopœia Commission, the British Medical Association, the Pharmaceutical Society, the National Pharmacists Union and the Wholesale Drug Trade Association. It is understood that the Committee intends to complete its work as speedily as possible. The publication of this formulary will be welcomed by medical men and dispensers, who are at present without an official guide as to the best substitutes for drugs which are now almost unobtainable and the best methods of compounding them for administration to patients. Apart from the few additions to the monographs of the British Pharmacopœia and alterations of a few monographs and lists of scarce drugs and suggested substitutes prepared by the Medical Research Council, no attempt has hitherto been made to compile a comprehensive book of formulæ for use during the period of emergency.
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A War-Time Formulary. Nature 147, 54 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147054b0
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