Word: pharmacopoeias
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...Pharmacopoeia, published...
...many brands mislabeled, a few unpotable. He forthwith ordered that straight whiskey be labeled straight whiskey, blends be labeled blends (with percentages of alcohol &whiskey stated on the label), imitations be labeled imitations (with ingredients stated).* Medicinal whiskey, said Dr. Wynne, must be the stimulant which the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the Food & Drugs Act of 1906 specify as "an alcoholic liquid obtained by the distillation of a fermented mash of wholly or partly malted cereal grains, containing not less than 47% and not more than 53% by volume of alcohol at 15.56° Centigrade. It must have been stored...
...Several days later he took several "Aspirin" tablets, died poisoned by the deadly bichloride. Therefore last week U. S. manufacturing druggists and editors of pharmaceutical journals had on their desks copies of a sharp letter from Dr. Ernest Fullerton Cook, chairman of the revision committee of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the dead man's friend. Dr. Cook's letter reminded every one that it was just to prevent such accidents that the Pharmacopoeia 16 years ago laid down strict rules for the preparation of bichloride tablets. Bichloride of mercury (corrosive mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate), deadly poison...
...reported a Frenchman's use of viper heads as a diuretic. Professor G. Billard of the Uni-versity of Clermont was consulted in a young girl's case of scarlet fever. Her kidneys would not function. Professor Billard had recently prepared an ancient diuretic which the French pharmacopoeia had dropped in 1884. He had soaked viper heads in alcohol, macerated the heads with chopped meat and salt water, filtered the concoction. This macerated residue he injected under the patient's skin. Quickly she recovered...
...report is made, the tenor of the final hearings last week indicated it will whitewash the U.S. administrators, as they have been whitewashed since the official days of the late Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley (see pg. 32), and it will recommend increased appropriation for Administration work. The Pharmacopoeia specifications for standard ergot extract may be changed. A committee has already started work on the eleventh decennial revision of the Pharmacopoeia...