HISTORY

Question 1

1st American pharmacopoeia 1778

Answer 1

Lilitz pharmacopoeia

Question 2

Suggested to the Medical society of N.Y. the
pharmacopoeia

Answer 2

Dr Lyman Spalding

Question 3

exclusive for doctors, held every 10 yrs. (revise USP)

Answer 3

USP convention

Question 4

Father of USP

Answer 4

Dr Lyman Spalding

Question 5

• from Great Britain
• product of merging by the 3 city’s pharmacopoeia of London, Edinburgh & Dublin
  in 1864

Answer 5

British Pharmacopoeia

Question 6

➢declared USP & NF as stds for medicinal & pharmaceutical
subs’s

Answer 6

• Pres. Theodore Roosevelt

Question 7

-Used to be a revolt/rebellious records coined as the NF of the
Unofficial Preparations
- June 30, 1906

Answer 7

National formulary

Question 8

Coined by Samuel Hahnemann

Answer 8

Homeophathic Pharmacopoeia of the US

Question 9

Principle: like cures like or the law of similarities
(vaccines/immunizations)

Answer 9

Samuel Hahnemann

Question 10

Published by WHO
- Recommendation to national pharmacopoeia revisions

Answer 10

International Pharmacopoeia

Question 11

first American Pharmacopeia, Lititz Pharmacopeia, was published in?

Answer 11

1778

Question 12

Massachusetts Medical Society published a 272-page pharmacopeia containing
information on monographs on 536 drugs and pharmaceutical preparations. when was it?

Answer 12

1808

Question 13

Draft pharmacopeias were reviewed, consolidated, and adopted by
the first United States Pharmacopeial Convention assembled in Washington D.C.

Answer 13

January 1, 1820

Question 14

Lyman Spalding submitted a plan to the Medical Society of the
county of New York

Answer 14

January 6, 1817

Question 15

first USP was published in English and Latin

Answer 15

December 15, 1820

Question 16

first edition of the National Formulary of
Unofficial Preparations was published

Answer 16

1888

Question 17

National Formulary of Unofficial Preparations was changed to
National Formulary (NF)

Answer 17

June 30, 1906

Question 18

Pharmacopeial Convention granted authority
to issue supplements

Answer 18

1900

Question 19

revision of the USP every 5 years

Answer 19

1940

Question 20

when did the USP Convention Inc., purchased the NF

Answer 20

1975

Question 21

first combined compendium

Answer 21

July 1, 1980

Question 22

first edition to drop the use of
roman numerals in favor of Arabic numerals

Answer 22

1995

Question 23

The USP-NF became an annual publication.

Answer 23

2002