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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![lNTBODr( TOl.T SKETCH. fully iliscussed in the interests of tin- tnitli ami justice involved. AecDnlingly, this writer prepared a rejoinder to tlie authors of these )>ainphlets, and took this to The American Medical Association to offer instead of the presentation and plan wliich liad already been in the hands of the ineml>ers for many niontlis. Tlie President of The Association liad, also, by resolution, been recommended to consider the matter in liis annual address. Tlie President did discuss tlie subject in his address, lead at the first session of the meetinsr in Chicago, and concluded with the recommendation that it be referred to* a special committee. This recommendation, with others in the President's address, was referred to a committee of seven. Dr. II. C. Wood mentioned to The Association that the subject of the Phar- macopteia was to come up on the following day at 10 o'clock, and moved that, in order not to have to m.ake two bites at a cherry, the committee be directed to report upon this subject at that time, and his motion was carried. This action appeared as though Dr. Wood and The Association desired that the committee should make up its judgment upon the subject before hearing what might be said at the hour appointed for the hearing. .Vccordingly, at the hour a]ij)ointed on the following day, the committee report—and not the paper appointed for the hdur—was tirst called for, and the commit- tee reported that it was inexpedient at the present time to take any action in the }>remises. Some time was occu]>ied in ri'marks upon the report and in laying it upon the t:il)lc, and then this writer was called upon to j>rcsent his subject, lie stated that when at the last meeting of The Association he was ordered to present the subject, ai tills lime, no liniii was given liiiu as to the time at his disposal, ami that only within a few days, on receiving the printed pro- gram of this meeting, did he know that he would be limited to an hour. And now some twenty minutes of tliat liour had been taken for other business. Very much hail been published on the subject which seemed to need a rejoin<ler, and in making this up for The .\ssociati<in the manuscript had so grown that it could not be read in less than two hours. If the forty minutes now available was tlu' measure of The Association's interest in the subject, it might be well to droj) it altogether rather than hear a part of what could not be finished. The writer stated tliat he did not appear there by favor of The Association at all, but simply by its direction to do a specific thing, and was ready to ilo it or not as The Association might now re-direct, but would rather not undertake to half do it. Ur was, however, then directed to take the stand, and read from his manuscript for about forty minutes. It was then moved that he should go on and finish his paper, but this he asked permission not](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22277584_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
