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
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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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    to it any general representation of the profession. Tliat it has not been made up of experts in any proper sense, or in any other sense tliaii that ill wliicli pi .uninent men in all professions must be experts in the kno\vle<lge and uses of the means best adapted to obtain tlieir ends. It has been also shown that the Committees of experts selected by The Conventions, for the revisions, liave not had the broad nation- ality claimed for them in any other than a purely nominal sense. That no matter wliat the number constitutint;: these committees, the quorum has always been three, and that three to five men, always living in tlie same city, and generally the same men, have done the work of The Conventions, and have done it in their own way, if that way hapi)oned to differ from the way of The Conventions; and far- ther, that in such case, by this plan. The Conventions could have no redress nor power to correct. And it has been shown that in this way tlie work has become contracted, and biased, and sectional, and is liable to become still more so; and that the fault lies in a defect- ive plan, and therefore tliat the plan needs reform. Fourtli. It is chxinied that the work of the Committees of the Conventions has been broad and national from having been com- ])iled from preliminary work, done in various bodies all over the country, and sent to the Committees from The Conventions, for the guidance of the Committees, and therefore that tlie work is one of compilation by special experts. As a matter of fact, however, there never have been more tlian six of such general contributions of preliminary work sent to any one Convention, and that number once only, and two of these have always been from the bodies which constituted the working part of the Committees, namely, from the College of Physician? of Phil- adelphia, and the College of Pliannaey of Philatlelpliia. Tliese two contributions have formed the basis of all tlie modern revisions, and the reconimendatiiMis and suggestions of other bodies have been gen- erally disrt'ganb'd until now tliey are brought forward in aiguiiU'nt to sustain a faulty plan through whose working they have been sys- tematically ignored. Fifth. It is claimed tliat a legal .'iiid a moral right of both rejiuta- tion and property is sought to be invaded in this movement of an entire profession to reassume a work which has, for a time, been delegated to a part of that profession. It lias been shown in rejoinder tliat there are no legal rights in- volved, nor any legally constituted bodies on either side of tlie ques- tion, and therefore that tlie threatened prosecutions are out of