The following table, based on that of the Pharmacopoeia Germanica, exhibits the maximum doses of the potent remedial agents mentioned, and beyond which physicians in Germany are not allowed to prescribe unless they add the caution mark (!), thereby indicating that such a large dose is intentionally ordered. It must not be forgotten that maximum doses are exceptional ones, not to be prescribed without due consideration, as they are generally beyond the ordinary doses to which the practitioner is accustomed.

The table is arranged in grammes, and their equivalent in grains, or, in the case of liquids, in minims, etc. :

1 Dr. Hermann Hager, Commentar zur Pharmacopoeia Germanica, Berlin, 1874, ii. 910.

2 Dorvault, L'Officine, cites a slightly different maximum dose for some of the agents named. It will be noticed that the German doses