Pharmacopoeias
Pharmacopoeia, pharmacopeia, or pharmacopoea, (literally, "drug-making"), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of samples and the preparation of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a medical or pharmaceutical society.
Descriptions of preparations are called monographs. In a broader sense it is a reference work for pharmaceutical drug specifications.
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