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PREFACE TO THE

constituted the work itself almost a new onerather tlian a corrected Edition.

In the plan of the present Pliarmacopoeiawe have tliought it advisable to deviate ma-terially in several respects ftom those of for-mer years.

That we have departed from all previouspractice of Colleges in this country by Pub-lishing our Pharmacopceia in the Englishlanguage is an alteration, which, as it hasbeen sanctioned by the almost unanimousconsent of the College, will also, we appre-hend, meet with the general approbation ofthe medical public. The time is perhapsgone by when public opinion required as atest of learning that a College of Medicineshould write in Latin alone; and it mayeven be questioned whether the practice benot open to censure as leading to risks of in-aecuraey in preparing and compoundingdrugs. Besides, the favonrable reeeption ofunauthorized translations of former Pharma-copocias, together with the slow sale of the