the new British Pharmacoperia; which has just come into force and is henceforth to be the official guide to medical practitioners in ail parts of the British Empire,' there are a number of changes, one of the most interesting being that in the directions to pharmacists the metric system of weights and measures alone is employed, so that all pharmacists will be obliged to keep complete sets of weights and measures according sto this system, Mr. F. Bhelley,' manager of the Society of Apothesaries, explained the other day that the change does not mean that the imperial system of weights and measures has been <is-carded but aims at offering an al: trative of dosage. It often happens, he said, that a chemist is called upon to make up a foreign doctor's prescriptions and as these are always tabulated in the metric system they have to be converted into the imperial system before he can dispense them. It is probable that the change will give rise to a good deal of criticism and that the General Medical Council will have to fight for the alteration which, to the layman at all events, appears wise one.
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