British Pharmacopœia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from British Pharmacopœia

By the Medical Act of 1858 section 54, it is enacted 'that the General Council shall cause to be published under their direction a Book containing a list of medicines and compounds, and the manner of preparing them, together with the true weights and measures by which they are to be prepared and mixed, and containing such other matter and things relating thereto as the General Council shall think fit, to be called "British Pharmacopoeia;" and the General Council shall cause to be altered, amended, and republished, such Pharmacopœia as often as they shall deem it necessary.'

And by a subsequent Act, the 25th and 26th Victoria, cap. 91, which recites amongst other things that different Pharmacopœias have hitherto been in use in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and that the Pharmacopœias to be published by the General Council is intended to supersede the above-mentioned Pharmacopoeias, it is enacted that 'the British Pharmacopœia, when published shall for all purposes be deemed to be substituted throughout Great Britain and Ireland for the several above-mentioned Pharmacopœias, and any Act of Parliament, Order in Council, or custom relating to any such last-mentioned Pharmacopœias shall be deemed, after the publication of the British Pharmacopoeia, to refer to such Pharmacopœia.'

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