What is Extra Pharmacopoeia
Extra Pharmacopoeia
* Extra Pharmacopoeia was first produced in 1883 by William Martindale and is still known as "Martindale".
*This is an authorized reference book on drugs and is used throughout the world.
*It provides all sorts of latest information on drugs and medicines.
*The Extra Pharmacopoeia is prepared by consulting the pharmacopoeias of other countries.
*The twenty-eighth edition was published in December 1982.
*The twenty-ninth edition was published in January 1989, by direction of the council of The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and prepared in the Society's Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
*Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants and pesticides.