420 BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE, EXETER. 



1869. In connection with the Pharmacy Act, it is proper that I 



should here inform you that the proposal made at our meeting 

 at Norwich last year for some public recognition of the eminent 

 services rendered to the cause of pharmaceutical education and 

 the improvement of the status of pharmacy, by Mr. Sandford, 

 was warmly taken up at meetings held at the house of the 

 Pharmaceutical Society on the 6th and 13th of October last, on 

 the latter of which occasions a committee was organized for 

 carrying it into effect. It is unnecessary that I should recount 

 to you the subsequent proceedings and numerous meetings of 

 this committee; suffice to say that a subscription was raised, 

 amounting to about 500, of which 200, invested in the form 

 Sandford Tes- of plate, was presented to Mr. Sandford on the 19th of May 

 timomal. j ag ^ Qn ^ e even i n g O f which day a complimentary dinner was 

 given to him at the Freemasons' Tavern. The balance of the 

 subscription is to be expended on a portrait of Mr. Sandford, to 

 be placed on the walls of that institution for the welfare of 

 which he has laboured with so much devotion and, I think I 

 may add, with such eminent success. 



Scientific The progress of scientific pharmacy, as evidenced by the 



Pharmacy, various memoirs, papers and notes that have appeared in this 



and other countries during the year that has elapsed since our 



last meeting, is a subject too wide and too difficult for me to 



attempt to discuss on the present occasion. Yet it may be 



" . . . et aussi que les medecines electuaires ou opiates, ou quelconques 

 medecines de longue conservation, faites et mises en pots, on autres vais- 

 seaux convenables par eux, ils xnettront sur le pot, Pan et le mois de la confec- 

 tion, et que il vendront a loial, jusle et modere pris, et loyal et juste regard 

 a la mutation de la monoie . . . . et aussi que il peseront toutes leurs 

 medecines, et ne les bailleront pas en tache, toutefois que requis en seront." 



" Mandement portant que les remedes des apothicaires de Paris seront visile's 

 par les mddecins de la faculteV' 



" Philippe par la grace de Dieu, roy de France : au prevost de Paris, ou 

 son lieutenant, salut." 



" . . . . et que tu les contraignes a montrer ausdits maistres [de la faculte* 

 de medecine] les medecines laxatives, et les opiates, qui se gardent par long 

 temps, pour les voir, avant que elles soient confites, et sgavoir qu'elles soient 

 bonnes et fraiches et non corrompues et tresalle'es . . . " 



" Donn6 a Paris, le 22 de Mai 1336." 





