pharmacopoeia
Also known as pharmacopeia, pharmacopoea, pharmacopœia
thumb|The 1699 Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia
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21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Early history
- China
- City pharmacopoeias
- London, Edinburgh, Dublin
- National pharmacopoeiae
- Emergence in Britain and Ireland
- United States
- Supranational and international harmonization
- Internationalization attempts
- International pharmaceutical congresses (1864–1902)
- Brussels Agreements (1902–1951)
- WHO International Pharmacopoeia (1951–present)
- The European Pharmacopoeia (1964–present)
- Soviet Union
- Medical preparations, uses, and dosages
- List of national and supranational pharmacopoeias
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|The 1699 Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia
A pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea (or the typographically obsolete rendering, pharmacopœia), meaning "drug-making", in its modern technical sense, is a reference work containing directions for the identification of compound medicines. These are published or sanctioned by a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society, giving the work legal authority within a specified jurisdiction. In a broader sense it is a collection of pharmaceutical drug specifications. Descriptions of the individual preparations are called monographs.