Pharmacop' (British)

Pharmacop' (British), a book containing a list of medicines and compounds, and the manner of preparing them, together with the true weights and measures by which they are to be prepared and mixed, published by the Medical Council, under the Medical Act, 1858, s. 54, as amended by 25 & 26 Vict. c. 91. As to whether the standard set up by the British Pharmacop'ia is final and absolute, see Dickins v. Randerson, (1901) 1 KB 437; Boots Cash Chemists, Ltd. v. Cowling, 88 LT 539.