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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    That the said dtlcgates shall he nominated and elected with Ppeciid refer- euco to tin ir expi-rience and knowledge of therapeutics and j)hy8io|ojry. medi- cal chemistry, niediCiil botany and piactical ph.trniacy, so tliat all tlas«-b of medical and phamiacal experts may he fairly represe-nted in the National Con- vention, to the end that the Pharmaeopteia of the United State. n)ay he thoroughly revised by a commission emlnidying the greatest practical knowl- edge and professional skill. Tnis pl.m, or a similar one, would do but little violence to the existing order of things; it Would not interfere with any •'Pliarmaceuiic.d Council which any Association may form with a view to (liding pharmacupceial n vi>iun. and it ■would give us a truly representative convention, in which The .\merican Medi- cal Associalii)n would be recognized as well as all Pharmaceniioil luid oiher CoUi'ges not cnunected with that Association. There can be little doubt as to the advantage to be gained by a call emanating from the National Governmi iit — the presence of two government officials in the ''Convention would be a move in that direction; and as the formation of State Hoards of Health is nipidly extending, the day may not be far distant when we shall have a Mini.-iir of lleidtli to call oui' '•National Convention, and to repret-eut the great metUcJil and sanitary interests of the country iu the Cabinet of the UDited States. C. PAMPHLET OF THE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. Pkooeedixgs of The Pnu.ADELPiiiA CorNTT Medical Society. (Special Meetlug—Reported by Fkank Woodbcrt, M. D.) At a sjiecial meeting of the Society held May 9th, 1877, Prof. Henry II. Smith, President of the Society, in the chair, the President stated that the meet- ing had been specially called in order to take action upon a proposition that would be brought before The American Medical Association at its meeting in June, 1877, contemplating certain imjiortant changes in the time and manner of revising the I'nitcu Stales PharmacoiKvia, and in the publication of the work. In explaining the proposed alterations, he read extracts from a pamphlet pub- lished and distributed to the delegates to The Aniericau Medical Association and others, by its author, Dr. Squibb, of Brooklyn, who wi.shed that the subject should be freely discussed. He also stated that the Society at its previous meeting had invited certain gentlemen of the Pniladelphia College of Pharmacj- to be present at this meeting anil participate in the discussion. Of the.'-e he noticed the presence of Mr. A. B. TaUor, Profs. Maisch and Remington, and Messrs. Hullock ami Wiegand. By invitation of the chair, .Mr. Alfied B. Taylor then read extracts from a paper he liad printed in reply to Dr. Squibb's pamphlet, and also read portions of an unlinished paper he was pre])aring iu continuation of the same subject. He staled that the change proposed by Dr. Stiuibb comprised two distinct topics, although apparently included in one; the first was to take away the ownership of the Pharmacopceia from the National As.socialiou; the xccond is the advocacy of certain alterations iu the subject matter of the work, and the period of its publication : these changes (if desirable) being entirely independ- ent of the preceding, and if adopted could be performed by the National Phar- macopcvial Convention just as well iis by its hypothetical successor. Tlie first topic i.s the one Mr. Taylor had selected for discussion iu the pamphlet, which had bei n previously read before the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, who