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.

  • Squibb, Edward Robinson, 1819-1900.
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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    AND THE PHARMACOPCEIA. At the annual meeting of The American Medical Association held in Philadelphia, in June, 1876, after some preliminary action and discussion of the subject of the interest of The Association in the United States Pharmacopceia (see Transactions for 1876), the sub- ject was made the special order of business for 10 o'clock on the second day of the annual meeting of 1877, with the understanding that the writer should then present the subject in a more definite and complete way ; and no limitation of time was set for the subject. In view of the supposed importance of the subject, and the necessity for a full and fair discussion, and of careful thought and delibera- tion, the writer prepared a moderately full presentation of the sub- ject, and proposed a plan of action. In order to awaken a general interest in the matter;—to afford abundant time for consideration;— to economize the time of The Association, and to bring oat the opposi- tion which was to be expected to any proposition for a change in the present plan of revising the Pharmacopoeia,—the proposed pre- sentation and plan were published in pamphlet form some months in advance of the meeting of 1877. At a cost of much time and labor, and of more than a thousand dollars in money, the writer distributed six thousand of these pamphlets to the medical and pharmaceutical professions of the country, with the effect of bringing out a vigor- ous opposition to any change, in pamphlets published by Dr. H. C. Wood, Mr. Alfred B. Taylor and The Philadelphia County Medical Society, of Philadelphia, and by the National College of Pharmacy, of Washington. The points raised by such writers were of course such as would need a careful reply if the whole subject was to be