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Show Iroductlon of further standards and t-Ms and are aiming also to degrade other Important parts of tho work. "The bulk of I ho drugs used by American Am-erican doctors come lrom abroad," j said Dr. Rusby, "and within the last two years enormous quantities of spurious spur-ious and defective drugs have been rejected re-jected by the pure food inspectors and re-shipped to Europe. ' "I have trustworthy reports that big drug warehouses at Important centers nbro.nl are retaining these worthless medicines, and hope to foist them on the United States if they succeed in weakeniug the requirements require-ments of the piiarmacoeplae.-' BREAKING DOWN THE DRUG TESTS ,.New York, April 11 That an or-ponlzed or-ponlzed and powerful effort Is helng tiiade to remove from tbe United States pharmcoepiae all standard tests for strength and purity of medicinal medi-cinal drugs, thereby Imperiling the nation's health, is the declaration of Dr. Henry H. Rusby, dean of the Col-urobia Col-urobia college of Pharmacy aud president presi-dent of the American Pharmaceutical rsoriaton. In a statement given out here today. The pharmacoeplae, an ofilclal list -or medical formulae and the methods approved for their prep, arstlon, is to be revised ai Washing-ten, Washing-ten, beginning May 11. According to Dr. Rusby, commercial Interests are striving to prevent at that time the In- |