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The pharmacopœia of the United States of America / By authority of the National Medical Convention, held at Washington, A.D. 1830.

Date:
1831
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Credit: The pharmacopœia of the United States of America / By authority of the National Medical Convention, held at Washington, A.D. 1830. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * The subject which next engaged particular attention was the mode of assembling the Convention of 1840; and the fol- lowing regulations were adopted as those most likely to secure a full representation. ‘¢1. That. the President of this Osavehtion shall, on the first day of January 1839, issue a notice, requesting the dif- ferent incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, and the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, throughout the United States, to elect a num- Convention to be held at Washington on the first Monday in «62, That, thie” several incorporated bodies thus addressed be further requested by the President, to submit the Pharma- copeeia to a careful ‘revision, and to transmit the result of their to the next Convention. <¢3. That the several medical eee be further, requested to transmit'to the President of this Convention, the names and residence of ‘their respective delegates, so soon as they shall have been appointed; a list of whom shall be published under his authority, for the information of the medical publie, in the newspapers and medical Journale; in the: month of October Considering it necessary to wien against any contingency which might prevent the President from performing the du- ties thus assigned him, the: Convention resolved that in the event of his death, resignation, or inability to act, his du- ties should devolve upon the Secretary, and, should the latter be prevented from serving, upon an Assistant Secretary to be appointed for the purpose. 'N. W. Worthington, M.D. was eee chosen Assistant Secretary. _ Before its adjournment the Convention also provided for the tions: —‘* First, that the Secretary take charge of and preserve
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