PHARLIA.COPCEIA [From Supplement] The Brillgh, Pharmaeopoda, published in 1864, had the merit, of amalgamating the London, Edinbm•gh. and Dublin phartna copadaa; but it unfortunately contained so many defects, that, in accordance with the universal wishes both of the medical professor and of the chemists, the medical council ordered a new edition to be as speedily as possible prepared. This new edition has met with general favor the profession; and it is to be hoped that as we have now suc ceeded in incorporating three distinct works into one, we may, in the course of a few years, hope to have a universal pharmacopoeia, or. at all events, one of so general a nature that the most important medicines of the American, British, and chief conti nental pharmacopoeias* shall all be of the same strength. The most important additions to the new edition are benzoated lard (used for making suppositories and ointments), bromide of ammonium (useful for sleeplessness, and in hysteria and epilepsy), cm bonnie of bismuth and solution of citrate of bismuth and ammonia (useful in the same cases as white bismuth), iodide of cadmium (which may be used in the form of ointment when the yellow color of the skin that follows the application of iodide of lead ointment is objected to), oxalate of cerium (which, in doses of one or two grains, three times daily, acts as a sedative and Ionic, and is of great value in chronic intestinal irritation, dyspep cia, pyrosis, in chronic vomiting, and especially in the vomiting during pregnancy), flexile collodion (consisting of a mixture of 48 parts of collodion. 2 of Canada balsam,
and of castor oil, and useful as a protecting coating for burns, ulcers, and in erysipelas); glyccrines of borax, carbolic acid, piffle acid, tannic acid, and starch (which are used as local applications): various mercurial preparations, as compound ointment of mercury (which is an imitation of Scott's celebrated ointment for diseased joints), mercury sup positories (for thread worms in the rectum), and the black and yellow washes which are now for the alga time made officinal, lozenges of chlorate of potash, tincture of Kin tory or pyrethrum (used locally for relieving toothache), quinine pills and wine, tincture of sumbl (valuable in 20 minim doses as a nervous stimulant in typhoid fever, delirium tremens, etc.). and tincture of green hellebore. or Veratrom riride (which, in doses of from 5 to 20 minims, is useful in gout, rheumatism, and nem•algie affections.)•