Abstract
It is none too early for the medical profession to begin to discuss the revision of the U. S. Pharmacopeia, which is to take place next year. While the actual appointment of delegates to the pharmacopeial convention rests with medical and pharmacal colleges, state societies and the three Government medical services, the revision should represent the opinion of the profession at large. This opinion can be expressed only by free discussion in print and in various medical meetings. Within the last few decades a problem has arisen which successive pharmacopeial conventions have managed to ignore, but which must be faced in the near future. Up to 1860 or 1870, almost all drugs were either standard inorganic chemicals or vegetable substances which could be gathered by anyone with a working knowledge of botany, and which could be prepared for dispensing by very simple means. At present we are departing more and
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