THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. 



it was decided (i) that in all countries 

 there should be established independent 

 pharmaceutical schools equal in position 

 to the departments of a university and 

 having similar powers; (2) that the fol- 

 lowing additional compulsory subjects of 

 study should be introduced into the cur- 

 riculum of pharmaceutical students: a. 

 Pharmacy law and ethics, b. General 

 hygiene. c. Bacteriology (theoretical 

 and practical). 



In regard to the practice of pharmacy 

 it was decided — 



1. That the practice of medicine and 

 that of pharmacy should not in any in- 

 stance be carried on by one and the same 

 person; consequently that medical prac- 

 titioners should be prohibited from sell- 

 ing medicines to their patients, except 

 in the case of a doctor living in a place 

 where there is no pharmacist and then 

 on the condition that he should only sup- 

 ply medicine to patients residing at a 

 certain distance from the nearest phar- 

 macy. 



1. bis. That legislative effect should 

 be given to the same principle in the case 

 of veterinary practice. 



2. That every open pharmacy should 

 be the property of the pharmacist by 

 whom the business is carried on and that 

 every form of association other than that 

 between legally qualified pharmacists 

 should be prohibited, as well as any 

 combination by which the proprietorship 

 of a pharmacy would be shared by a 

 pharmacist and by other persons not 

 having the diploma of pharmacist; the 

 only exception to this rule to be in the 

 case of the widows and heirs of pharma- 

 cists, and then only for a limited period. 



3. That the number of pharmacies 

 should be limited in proportion to the 

 wants of the population. 



4. That mutual aid associations, ex- 

 ceptionally allowed to be proprietors of a 

 pharmacy, should be prohibited from 

 supplying medicines to any persons ex- 

 cept their own members. 



5. That civil hospitals should be al- 

 lowed to keep pharmacies, but on condi- 

 tion that the pharmacy is in each in- 

 stance managed by a qualified pharma- 

 cist, and that it is used exclusively for 

 the internal service of the hospital. 



6. That the druggist qualification 

 should be abolished. 



The Congress was of opinion that the 

 composition and strength of medicinal 

 preparations should be uniform and that 

 the amounts of their important constitu- 

 ents should be regulated by competent 

 authorities. 



In regard to the analysis and stand- 

 ardization of galenical preparations, it 

 was decided — 



1. That from the double point of view 

 of therapeutic progress and of pharma- 

 ceutical science, the establishment of 

 uniform processes and methods for the 

 determination of active constituents of 

 potent medicines has become essential. 



2. That every pharmacopoeia should 

 indicate the analytical processes applica- 

 ble for the standardization of medicines. 



3. That such processes should be as 

 far as possible uniform and applicable to 

 drugs, as well as to galenical prepara- 

 tions. 



4. That with the view of realizing that 

 desideratum, the duty of elaborating a 

 codex of analytical methods, suitable for 

 the valuation of drugs and galenical 

 preparations containing alkaloids, gluco- 

 sides or other definite constituents, 

 should be entrusted to an international 

 commission. 



