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PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
EDINBURGH MEETING. 
The First Meeting for session 1868-69 of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 
was held in St. George’s Hall, 119, George Street, on Wednesday evening, October 28th, 
Mr. W. Ainslie presiding. There was a large attendance. 
The Chairmlan, in introducing the business, said,—The Council of this branch of our 
Society having again honoured me by soliciting my acceptance of the presidential chair, 
I cannot occupy it without first thanking you for the confidence thus implied and the 
honour conferred. I shall endeavour, at all times, to have the best interests of the Society 
at heart; and in all that can promote its prosperity I feel assured I shall have the effi¬ 
cient co-operation of my friends-in the Council. I wish to make my remarks as speedy 
"and concise as possible, as the subject upon which ouf Honorary Secretary is to address 
us is of such an important and interesting character. We must all feel that the passing 
of the Amended Pharmacy Act is a matter of congratulation, not only to pharmaceutists, 
but to the public generally, because by its enactments, in future, no one can occupy the 
position of a chemist and druggist who has not been tested by examination as to his 
fitness for the responsible duties devolving upon him. It is well known that hitherto 
there was no barrier to even a comparatively uneducated man compounding medicines; 
and all our pharmaceutical education being of a voluntary nature, greater merit is due 
to those pharmaciens who have distinguished themselves by their scientific attainments. 
There are several subjects upon which I should like to make a few observations, and 
amougst these the relation existing between the medical profession and our body. We 
owe each a duty to the other; and I think it is most emphatically the duty of the 
Faculty to confine their recipes to the formulae of the national Pharmacopoeia ; or, where 
medicines of their own suggesting are wished, a complete recipe should be written out 
for the guidance of the chemist. On a recent occasion, one of the leading chemists in 
an English city expressed himself to me very warmly with regard to the annoyance he 
was subject to by some Scotch as well as English prescriptions being the peculiarity of 
certain physicians, and which could only be obtained at certain establishments. Such 
transactions he characterized as being unworthy the members of so noble a profession, 
