Transcriber’s note:
Minor typographical corrections silentlymade where the original was clearlyinconsistent.
Where necessary, indexentries were corrected to the main text.
The cover of this book created for epub versions is placed in the public domain.
Prepared for the Use of Physicians UnderAuthorization of the Council on Pharmacy andChemistry of the American Medical Associationby a Committee Consisting of the Following:
A.W. Hewlett, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Leland StanfordJunior University.
Torald Sollmann, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology andMateria Medica, Medical Department, Western ReserveUniversity.
M.I. Wilbert, Ph.M., Phar.D., Assistant in the Division ofPharmacology, Hygienic Laboratory, U.S. Public HealthService.
W.A. Puckner, Phar.D., Secretary of the Council on Pharmacyand Chemistry.
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
535 North Dearborn Street Chicago
1924
[Authority to use for comment the Pharmacopeia ofthe United States of America, ninth decennial revision,in this volume, has been granted by the Board of Trusteesof the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, whichBoard of Trustees is in no way responsible for theaccuracy of any translations of the official weights andmeasures, or for any statement as to the strength ofofficial preparations.
Permission to use for comment parts of the NationalFormulary has been granted by the Council of theAmerican Pharmaceutical Association.]
Copyright, 1921
American Medical Association
PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
The Pharmacopeia of the United States and the NationalFormulary are now recognized by federal and state laws asstandards for drugs and their preparations. Physicians whoprescribe Pharmacopeial or National Formulary drugs orpreparations, therefore, are more likely to obtain a goodand constant quality than if they prescribe unofficial articles,i.e., articles that have no legalized standard. Hence medicalmen are interested in knowing what drugs and preparationsare included in these two books of standards. Both thePharmacopeia and the National Formulary, however, containa vast amount of technical information, of value to pharmacistsbut of little interest to physicians. The Journal ofthe American Medical Association in 1907 issued the “Physicians’Manual of the U.S. Pharmacopeia and NationalFormulary,” a book designed to meet the needs of physiciansin this respect. The fact that this book did meet a real needis evidenced by the continued demand for it.
The present “Epitome of the U.S. Pharmacopeia andNational Formulary” takes the place of that book, but isbased on the new (the ninth) revision of the Pharmacopeiaand the new (the fourth) edition of the National Formulary.It has been prepared under the direction of a committeeappointed by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of theAmerican Medical Association. The aim has been to includeall the matter in the Pharmacopeia and National Formularywhich is likely to be of interest to physicians. This, it isbelieved, consists of the official titles and their abbreviations;synonyms; brief definitions; when necessary, concise descriptionsof the physical properties; and dosage. Since both thePharmacopeia and the Nation