Pharmacopoeia: German

Arzncibuch dcr DDR (Pharmacopoeia of the (former) German Democratic Republic), 6 volumes, 1985, British Approved Name... 

Deutsches Arzneibuch (German Pharmacopoeia), Sixth edition 1926. 

Deiitscher Arzneimittel-Codex (German Drug Formulary) 1986 First-Fourth Supplement 1986-1992. Ergiinzungsbueh zum Deutschen Arzneibuch (Supplement Volume to German Pharmacopoeia, Sixth edition 1926). Reprinted 1953. 

The Husemann and Erdmann identification reactions for morphine and codeine in the DAB 9 (German Pharmacopoeia) involve the formation of the red-colored ortho-quinone (8) via apomorphine (5) under the influence of nitric acid with the simultaneous nitration of the benzene ring [15]. 

Mono- and polyl dric phenols and enols frequently form characteristically colored complexes with Fe + ions [4, 28, 29]. Here monohydric phenols usually produce reddish-violet colors, while pyrocatechol derivatives yield green chelates [4]. Detection of acetone using Legal s test is based on the formation of an iron complex [4]. The same applies to the thioglycolic acid reaction of the German Pharmacopoeia (DAB 9) [4, 30]. 

Elderberries were listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1820 to 1831 and the flowers from 1831 to 1905. Elder is still an official herb in the British Pharmacopoeia. Elder is grown on most German properties and the German Office of Health recommends elder flower tea for the treatment of colds with fever. 

In 1802 he became a Privatdozent in the faculty of medicine at Gottingen, and was rapidly promoted until in 1810 he became a full professor (Professor ordinarius). In the German universities, as in certain American ones, professors frequently hold government offices. Dr. Stromeyer was the inspector-general of all the apothecaries of Hanover. On an inspection trip to Hildesheim in the autumn of 1817 he noticed that a certain preparation which, according to the Hanoverian Pharmacopoeia, ought to have contained zinc oxide, contained zinc carbonate instead. The events which followed were described by Dr. Stromeyer in his letter to Dr. J. S. C. Schweigger written on April 26, 1818 ... 

The impurities of potassium bromide.—Judging from the analyses of potassium bromide by H. Adrian,4 the older commercial varieties were very much more contaminated with impurities than modern samples. For example, H. Adrian found 10 to 15 per cent, of impurities in 10 commercial samples to-day, the German Pharmacopoeia permits 2 per cent, of potassium chloride, and about 0T per cent, of the carbonate. There has been reported 0T3 per cent, of KC1 in English bromide, 4 52 to 5 92 per cent, in American and in both, 0 35 to 1 29 per cent, of moisture. The bromide from Stassfurt is free from iodides. To detect iodides, the soln. is first treated with a little fuming nitric acid, and then shaken with chloroform, if but little iodine is present, the chloroform will not be coloured, but if the bromide be treated with an excess of ferric chloride the iodine will colour the chloroform... 

German Pharmacopoeia (Deutsches Arznecbach (DAB) 10th edn and its amendments. 

Method of the German Pharmacopoeia. o-2-0 3 gm. of the substance is boiled for about i hour with 10 ml. concentrated... 

In December 2005, the Federal Institute for Drags and Medical Devices (BfArM, Bonn) approved a new license for the use of Umckaloabo (EPs 7630) as a drag (78,79). It is a fully licensed liquid herbal medicine on the German market ( 80,000,000 turnover in 2006). The drag is listed in the European Pharmacopoeia (80,81). 

The 1746 London Pharmacopoeia was the last in which Mithridatium and Galene appear they were absent from the 1788 edition. The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, first published in 1699, dropped Mithridatium and Galene from the 1756 edition. Not all western European countries were so quick to expunge these formulations, for Galene with its vipers appears in the German Pharmacopoeia of 1872 and in the French Pharmacopoeia of 1884. 

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