+------------------------------------------+ | | | Transcriber's note | | | | Minor typographical corrections silently | | made where the original was clearly | | inconsistent. Where necessary, index | | entries were corrected to the main text. | | The text has the note regarding the use | | of iron at the base of each of pages | | 85-95. | | | | Unicode apothecary symbols in preface | | tables removed in text version (not used | | elsewhere in the text). | | | | Subscripts have been represented using | | curly brackets, e.g. in the chemical | | formula for nitric acid, HNO{3}. | | | +------------------------------------------+ EPITOME OF THE PHARMACOPEIA OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE NATIONAL FORMULARY, WITH COMMENTS * * * * * Prepared for the Use of Physicians Under Authorization of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association by a Committee Consisting of the Following: A.W. Hewlett, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Leland Stanford Junior University. Torald Sollmann, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Materia Medica, Medical Department, Western Reserve University. M.I. Wilbert, Ph.M., Phar.D., Assistant in the Division of Pharmacology, Hygienic Laboratory, U.S. Public Health Service. W.A. Puckner, Phar.D., Secretary of the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry. * * * * * AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 535 North Dearborn Street Chicago 1924 [Authority to use for comment the Pharmacopeia of the United States of America, ninth decennial revision, in this volume, has been granted by the Board of Trustees of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, which Board of Trustees is in no way responsible for the accuracy of any translations of the official weights and measures, or for any statement as to the strength of official preparations. Permission to use for comment parts of the National Formulary has been granted by the Council of the American Pharmaceutical Association.] Copyright, 1921 American Medical Association PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION