perspectives * More … Access thebmj.com - Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . The Medicines Act 1968 and the British PharmacopoeiaNovember 9, 2018 As I mentioned last week, the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, the EdinburghPharmacopoeia, and the Dublin Pharmacopoeia were eventually combined, in 1864, to form the British Pharmacopoeia (Pharmacopoeia Britannica), as recommended and announced
of arms and that of the College from the May 1618 version (left) and the difference in the spelling of the word “Pharmacopoe[i]a”The Pharmacopoeia Londinensis laid the foundations for other national pharmacopoeias, the EdinburghPharmacopoeia (1699) and the Dublin Pharmacopoeia (1807). The last edition of the London Pharmacopoeia, the 11th, appeared in 1851. By then the need for harmonization had become