RT Journal
A1 Edes R
T1 SHall the scope of the pharmacopeia be increased?
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD December 30
VO XXXIII
IS 27
SP 1660
OP 1660
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450790024011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450790024011
AB Boston, Dec. 19, 1899.To the Editor: 
    Among the many suggestions and remarks which the approach of the time of calling the convention for revising the Pharmacopeia is eliciting, the query why the sale of this book is so small among physicians often appears, and why they are so little acquainted with its contents and its merits. That such a condition exists is undoubted, but it is also true that there is a reason for it, and it seems to me, without yielding to anyone in my respect for the book in the position it is intended to fill, that the reason is a good one.Dr. Long (Journal, Dec. 9, 1899), in an article which tends in the same direction as my own thoughts, asks whether we-physicians—"are not shirking our duty when we allow pharmacal influence to predominate in the convention which directs its issue?" To this I would