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Under these circumstances, with the view, firstly, of bringing to the notice of the profession in India those indigenous drugs which European experience has proved to possess value as medicinal agents, and which may be employed as efficient substitutes for imported articles; and, secondly, of re-modelling the Bengal Pharmacopoeia of 1844, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council was pleased to sanction the publication of a Pharmacopoeia for India based upon the British Pharmacopoeia, which, while affording all the information contained in that work of practical use in India, would embody and combine with it such supplementary matter of special value in that country as should adapt it to meet the requirements of the Indian Medical Department.
In order to carry out these views, and to superintend the preparation of the work, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council organized a Committee composed of the following members:—
Inspector-General of Hospitals Sir J. Ranald Martin, C.B., F.RS., late Bengal army, President.
Sir William O'Shaughnessy Brooke,[1] M.D., F.RS., late Bengal army.
Alexander Gibson,[2] Esq., F.L.S., late Bombay army.
Daniel Hanbury, Esq., F R.S., F.L.S.
Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., late Bengal army.
John Forbes Watson, M.D., M.A., F.L.S., late Bombay army.
Robert Wight, M.D., F.R.S., late Madras army.
Edward John Waring, M.D., M.R.C.P., Lond., F.L.S., Madras army, Editor.
