Formulary Bellevue Hospital

This formulary lists the agents found acceptable by the Bellevue Hospital Committee on Drugs and Formulary for the dispensing of drugs to treat patients at Bellevue Hospital. The purpose of the formulary is "first, to assure that the patients treated at Bellevue Hospital are given the benefit of the most effective and accepted therapy; second, the institution, because of its vast teaching facilities, has the obligation to the physician to have available to him the most recent advances in therapy." The formulary is not a textbook of therapeutics or pharmacology, and provides no indication of the therapeutic use of the contained drugs. This is the way hospital formularies should be prepared, and the committee is right in feeling "strongly that no one should use a drug until he is thoroughly familiar with its pharmacologic action, therapeutic indications, dosage, and signs of toxicity. Such information could never be adequately contained in