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Show Thooey!' Gives Way to 'Um-m-m!' in Medicines New Drus Will Have More Pleasant Taste PHILADELPHIA. Better-tasting Better-tasting medicines will apparently appar-ently be one result of changes in the National Formulary, which might be called an official offi-cial recipe book for pharmacists. pharma-cists. The changes embodied in .the sixth revision of this volume which becomes official on June 1, 193G, were explained by Dr. Adley B. Nichols, secretary of the National Formulary committee on revision, at a conference at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. The National Formulary known as N. F. for short is a companion to that other legal standard for drugs in the United States, the United States Pharmacopoeia. The latter includes drugs and remedies of proven efficacy, regardless of whether they are widely used or seldom used. Products are included includ-ed in the N. F., on the other hand, on the basis of how generally they are used, Doctor Nichols pointed out. 321 Items Dropped. In the present revision 321 Items were dropped from the book because be-cause survey or over a hundred thousand prescriptions, collected from all parts of the country, showed that these items were not used in actual practice. A total of 233 new items were admitted. Six glandular products were admitted, ad-mitted, namely, corpus Iutum, ovary, ovarian residue, anterior pituitary, whole pituitary and superarenal. Salty-tasting medicines such as the bromides should taste better because syrup of raspberry Is the official "vehicle" for these preparations. prepa-rations. The resulting effect Is like adding a pinch of salt to bring out the flavor of the syrup. Syrup of acacia is another new vehicle which makes disagreeable medicines pleasant to take because the colloidal action of the acacia keeps the medicine from coming In contact with the taste buds on the tongue. Praise Cherry Flavor. Syrup of cherry is another new addition which has been widely acclaimed. ac-claimed. "Its specific value lies In Its fruity tartness which makes It a delightful de-lightful mask for sour products such as the diluted acids, where the acid almost enhances the taste rather than destroys it," Doctor Nichols says. For a change, pharmacists are advised ad-vised to use syrup of thyme which has "a markedly different taste." |