THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY 



The Congress was also of opinion that 

 in regard to new medicines, serums and 

 the opotherapeutic products recently in- 

 troduced, the following regulations 

 should receive legislative recognition: — 



i. That the denominations of medi- 

 cines should be public property and not 

 restricted to particular individuals or 

 used as trade marks. 



2. That in every country a commission 

 should be established fully authorized to 

 carry out a complete study of new medi- 

 cinal agents and if requisite, to revise the 

 nomenclature applied to them. The re- 

 sults of such work to be reported annu- 

 ally by the commissions. 



3. That pharmacists should have the 

 exclusive right to sell organo-therapeutic 

 products, serums, antitoxines, etc., 

 which are only to be manufactured in 

 laboratories having the sanction of the 

 Government for that purpose. 



4. That in the event of experiment 

 proving the clinical action to be the 

 same, it would be desirable to employ 

 dried organs as the organo-therapeutic 

 products. 



In regard to pharmaceutical legislation, 

 the Congress was of opinion that the law 

 regulating the practice of pharmacy in 

 each country should be embodied in the 

 respective Pharmacopoeias. 



That a compulsory minimum tariff 

 should be established for medical aid as- 

 sociations, insurance societies, etc. 



That every medicinal specialty should 

 be required by law to bear a label stat- 

 ing the names of all the substances en- 

 tering into its composition and their 

 doses. 



That the revision of pharmacopoeias 

 should be carried out by commissions, 

 consisting in great part of pharmaceuti- 



cal members, practical as well as profes- 

 sional. 



That the commission engaged in com- 

 piling a universal pharmacopoeia should 

 continue its labors and indicate the 

 medicines which are in most general use. 



That arrangements should be made 

 between medical and pharmaceutical 

 societies with the object of repressing the 

 trade in secret remedies and opposing 

 every form of quackery. 



That the office of inspection of articles 

 of food, etc., should be distinct from that 

 of the inspection of pharmacies and that 

 the warehouses, etc., of wholesale drug- 

 gists should also be subject to inspection. 



That when a legal inquiry requires 

 consideration of chemical details, the 

 court should engage a chemical adviser, 

 who would conduct any necessary an- 

 alysis, etc., conjointly with the chemist 

 acting on behalf of the defendant or other 

 party to the litigation. Both should 

 then present their reports to a superior 

 court of reference, or when some special 

 subject had to be dealt with, to delegates 

 chosen for the purpose, who would then 

 consider the matter from the purely 

 scientific point of view, and report their 

 conclusions for the assistance of the 

 court. 



That/in specifying the maximum doses 

 of medicines, pharmacopoeias should in- 

 clude all substances administered in the 

 form of glysters. bougies, suppositories, 

 irrigations, hypodermic injections, lo- 

 tions, etc. 



A commission was constituted for con- 

 sidering and giving effect to these resolu- 

 tions, and, for the several countries rep- 

 resented at the Congress, the following 

 members were appointed: 



Belgium Professor Ranwez. 



Great Britain Dr. Paul. 



