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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$The Association is not only a migratory body, but its clcnjcnts change mate- rially from year to year, while this pharmacopa>ia interest should be as fixed and as permanent as possible, because those who have it in charge must train themselves to the special work, and then keep themselves up to the progress of the time by continuous labor in that special direction. And the longi-r such persons serve at the work the easier it will be for them to do it well, and the more valuable will their services become to The Association, to the public, and to the work itself. Under these circumstances, it is here proposed to delegate the entire control and management of the Pharmacop<ria to a council to be formed for the sjtr-cial purpose, to be called The Pharmacopceial Council of The Americ-.m Mi\lical Association, and to provide for this council by a new article of the by-laws to follow the article on the JudiciiU Council. To provide properly for this the following resolutions would lie necessjiry : liesoleed, Tliat article XII. of the by-laws on '' New Rusines.* !)•• placed next after article X. Of the Previous Question, antl 1k'nunibere<l XI., and that the pre.s( nt article XL, Judicial Couucil, be numbered XII., instead of XI. Jtfuolrfd, That the by-laws of The Association be amended by the introduction of a new article, to be as follows: XIII. PUARMACOP<ElAL COrNCIL. There shall be a council established, to be called The Phnrmacoposial Coun- cil of The American Medical Association, for the sole purpose of taking the en- tire charge, control and management of The Pharmacopteia of the United States of America, under the ownership and supervision of this Association, and for the benefit and interest of the general malical profession, as represented in this Association. This council may obtain for itself an act of incorporation from the Congress of the United States, if such incorporation should be found by the council to be necessary or useful in the prosecution of its work. This council shall cdiisist of live nu-mbers, who shall be obtained as follows: First—A President, who shall lie nominated and elected as prcscrilied for Per- manent Secretary, and who shall hold ollice on the same tenure and C(inditions; except, that it shall be eoiupeteiit for the Nominating Committee to ]>resent a name for a new President at any aiuuial meeting of The As.sociation, either of its own motion, or at the written rcciuest of any tliree members of the Phar- macopteial Council, aildressed to the President of The Association. Second—The Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army, and the Surgeon-General of the U. S. Navy, .shall each be invited in the name of this As.sociation. by its President, to select and aj)]>oint a suitable officer from each medical corps, to serve as a member of this council, and to accredit such officer to this Associa- tion as one of the four delegates from each medical corps. In case either or buth the Surgeon-Generals should decline this invitation, or in case either or both should, at any time after appointing, withdraw their representatives from this council %vithout apjiointing successors, it shall be competent for the President of this Association to fill such vacancies from the members of The Association until the next succeeding annual meeting. Then such vacancies shall be filled by the Nominating Committee and the vote of The Association, as provided in the case of President of the Council$

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