Abstract
THE new “British Pharmaceutical Codex’ which was published on October 17, thirteen months after the new ”British Pharmacopoeia", is the fifth of the series which started in 1907. The Codex was originally based on a simple “Formulary of Unofficial Remedies’ which had been issued under the ægis of the British Pharmaceutical Conference since 1886. It has grown in importance and now includes standard tests for the purity of drugs which are not included in the ”British Pharmacopoeia", either because they are not yet sufficiently established, or because they have been ejected. It also includes all the drugs in the Pharmacopoeia with a brief summary of their properties and a large number of prescriptions.
The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1949
(Published by direction of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Brituin.) Pp. xxv + 1562. (London: Pharmaceutical Press, 1949.) 63s.
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G., J. [Book Reviews]. Nature 164, 979 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164979a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164979a0