Pharmacopoeia

We have microlimits that are set.

There's something called the BPEP, which is the British Pharmacopeia and the European Pharmacopeia.

And this is where there is a cannabis monograph available on there.

And it'll talk about the requirements to be able to produce and release a cannabis flower in the UK.

And if you look in Culpeper, you'll find many references, even instructions of how to distill certain plants to have the water for health and for healing.

And this is that, you know, we had in the Pharmacopeia many years ago, we had a number of waters, rosewater and cornflower, etc.

But really important were the hydrolats.

And they fell out of fashion, but now I'm glad to say that they're back.

It was adopted by men largely engaged in rendering fatty substances for use in pharmacy and for other purposes for which the fat was required to be as free as possible from flavor and not unduly subject to become rancid.

It became the process of the British Pharmacopoeia in 1868.

In 1869, it formed the basis of a process which was patented in Paris and this country by Hippolyte Meege for the production of a fat free from taste and odor and suitable for dietetic use as a substitute for butter.

Meege's process consists in passing the fat between revolving rollers together with a stream of water and then melting at animal heat.

Of the science of poisons, however, he knew absolutely nothing, and as the waiter seemed quite unable to find anything in the library but Ruff's Guide and Bailey's Magazine, he examined the bookshelves himself.

And finally he came across a handsomely bound edition of the Pharmacopeia, and a copy of Erskine's Toxicology, edited by Sir Matthew Reid, the President of the Royal College of Physicians, and one of the oldest members of the Buckingham, having been elected in mistake for somebody else a contretemps that so enraged the committee that when the real man came up they blackballed him unanimously lord arthur was a good deal puzzled at the technical terms used in both books and had begun to regret that he had not paid more attention to his classics at oxford when in a second volume of erskine he found a very interesting and complete account of the properties of aconitine written in fairly clear english it seemed to him to be exactly the poison he wanted it was swift indeed almost immediate in its effect perfectly painless and when taken in the form of a gelatine capsule the mode recommended by sir matthew not by any means unpalatable he accordingly made a note upon his shirt-cuff of the amount necessary for a fatal dose, put the books back in their places, and strolled up St. James's Street to Pestle and Humbies, the great chemists.

Mr. Pestle, who always attended personally on the aristocracy, was a good deal surprised at the order, and in a very deferential manner murmured something about a medical certificate being necessary.

However, as soon as Lord Arthur explained to him that it was for a large Norwegian mastiff that he was obliged to get rid of, as it showed signs of incipient rabies, and had already bitten the coachman twice in the calf of the leg, he expressed himself as being perfectly satisfied, complimented Lord Arthur on his wonderful knowledge of toxicology, and had the prescription made up immediately.

These are the official, heavily regulated publications.

Exactly, like the British Pharmacopeia, the European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, which is ESCOP and monographs published by the World Health Organization.

A monograph is essentially a master blueprint.

It dictates the exact non-negotiable standards for quality control for every specific plant drug.

1.

If, when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down therein.

2.

If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia, but which is found in some other Pharmacopoeia or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality, or purity laid down in such work.

3.

If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard under which it is sold.

I have read with much interest the paper on ointment bases communicated by Mr. Wilmot to the Pharmaceutical Conference at its recent meeting, but the part of the subject which has more particularly attracted my attention is that which relates to prepared lard.

Reference is made by Mr. Wilmot to lard prepared in different ways, and it appears from the results of his experiments that when made according to the process of the British Pharmacopoeia, it does not keep free from rancidity for so long a time as some of the samples do which have been otherwise prepared.

The general tendency of the discussion, as far as related to this part of the subject, seems to have been also in the same direction.

But neither in the paper nor in the discussion was the question of the best mode of preparing lard for use in pharmacy so specially referred to or fully discussed as I think it deserves to be.

Hills, at a meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society, suggested a process for the preparation of lard, which consisted in removing from the flare all matter soluble in water, by first thoroughly washing it in a stream of cold water after breaking up the tissues, and afterward melting and straining the fat at a moderate heat, this method of operating seemed to be generally approved.

It was adopted by men largely engaged in rendering fatty substances for use in pharmacy and for other purposes for which the fat was required to be as free as possible from flavor and not unduly subject to become rancid.

It became the process of the British Pharmacopoeia in 1868.

In 1869, it formed the basis of a process which was patented in Paris and this country by Hippolyte Meige for the production of a fat free from taste and odor and suitable for dietetic use as a substitute for butter.