Excerpt from The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 14: April, 1907
The last edition of the U. S. P. Is already old, and there is talk of the necessity for a supplement. What will it be when ten years older? Moreover, a very large per centage of the boasted products contained in these two books are old proprietaries and patent medicine masquerading under other names. By what alchemy does their admission to these volumes purge them from the contempt and contumely with which they have heretofore been loaded by those of the unco guid who now see in them but the quintessence of purity and perfection?
In a recent letter from one of the ablest pharmaceutic chemists in this country, he wittily points out the exact status of the U. S. Pharmacopeia, in the following words.
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