The American Medical Association and the United States pharmacopoeia / a reprint of the pamphlets of H.C. Wood, Alfred B. Taylor, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the National College of Pharmacy ; with a rejoinder addressed to the professions of medicine and pharmacy of the United States, by Edward R. Squibb.

E. R. Squibb

Date:: 1877

Credit: The American Medical Association and the United States pharmacopoeia / a reprint of the pamphlets of H.C. Wood, Alfred B. Taylor, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the National College of Pharmacy ; with a rejoinder addressed to the professions of medicine and pharmacy of the United States, by Edward R. Squibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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$Washington, and if Dr. Wood in his pamphlet speaks for him, or speaks his mind in the matter, no power on earth can free liim from liis ])hun duty.' The second resolution ^vas drawn up under the circumstances above narrated, and in forgctfulness of the fact that since 1874 Medical Colleges are not directly represented in The American ]\Icdical Association, but only through their county or State Socie- ties. Reference was had only to the time of the last Convention in 1870 when Colleges were represented in both bodies as stated. This is the resolution wliicli aims at relieving the superior officer of the last Convention from the duty of calling a new Convention in 1880, and it aims to relieve him of the duty by the same power and authority which imposed the duly, and not by dishonorable means, as stated. It is hardly to be supposed that if every one of the organizations whose delegates Avere present at the Convention of 1870, sliould, by vote, decide to relieve this officer from the duty in question, that he would refuse to be relieved ; and it is reasonable to suppose that if a majority of the organizations should so vote to relieve him, he would decide to accept the decision, and not issue the call. This latter is the j)Osition t:iken in the resolution, as it is believed that this would have fully satisfied the President, Dr. Carson. Hut whether it would satisfy Dr. Riley cannot be known. The position taken by Dr. Wood in his pamphlet is that no power on earth can free liim from his })lain duty to call the Convention, and that there- fore, it certainly will be called, and that when called it will make a Committee of Revision, and that Committee will make a jiharma- copo'ia, will ])ublis]i it as tlie United Stales Piiarmacop<ei:i, and will defend its riglit to that title through the courts if necessary, irrre- spective of any action on the ])art of The American Medical Asso- ciation. If tliis position be taken after such consultation with Dr. Riley as this writer had with Dr. Carson, and if it be the position of the University of Pennsylvania, from whence this pamphlet is issued, then it must be accej)ted. And, when the call is issued, the University of Pennsylvania, as an incor])Oj-ated college, will resj)ond to the call, even if few other organizations should. Then as tlie Convention makes its own rules, and is its own law as to the number of delegates necessary to form a quorum for business, the program could be carried out as above mentioned, and the Univer. sity of Pennsylvania, as an incorporated body, could then bold the copyright and defend tlie title in the courts of law\ But if the position should not be so serious a one as this,—if it$

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