PHARMACOPEIA REVISION

We publish this week under "Correspondence" a letter calling attention to the reports on the Pharmacopeia of three committees of sections of the Association.¹ As our correspondent remarks, these reports furnish much food for thought to physicians interested in the development of sane drug therapeutics; and what physician is not interested in this subject? The recommendations contained in these reports came from men actively engaged in the practice of medicine—those, in fact, who are bearing the brunt of the battle against disease. Their opinions are worthy of careful consideration even by those who are not especially interested in the purpose for which the reports were primarily prepared. The fact that so many of the members of the Section on Ophthalmology, for example, state that they have found certain drugs of very distinct value and others of little or no use is an item which should prove of great interest