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desirable, if not absolutely necessary. We hope that your Society will ap¬ 
prove of our project, and resolve to be represented at the Congress no less 
than other States, as Russia, France, Austria, Switzerland, and others have 
already done. The manner of acquainting the members of your Society we 
must leave to yourself. In case that you should consider a publication of the 
programme in the ‘ Times ’ as necessary, I should feel much obliged to you if 
you would kindly favour me with a copy of the number in which it appears. 
This opportunity being offered to me, I have the pleasure to express my 
highest esteem for your Pharmaceutical Society, and begging you for a speedv 
communication of your resolution, 
I have the honour to be, Sir, yours very respectfully, 
Marbach , 13 th July , 1865. Dm Rieckher. 
Programme for the Pharmaceutical Congress to be held at Brunswick on the 
th, 1 i>th, and 17th September, 1865. 
f n tlie last general assembly of the General German Apothecaries’ Union at 
W lesbaden, a committee, consisting of members of several Apothecaries’ Unions 
proposed to establish an International Congress of all the Pharmaceutical 
Unions, which was approved of, not only by the members of the General Ger¬ 
man Apothecaries’ Union, who were present at the meeting, but the realization 
of such an International Congress was also resolved on afterwards by a number 
of other Unions. 
The purpose of the Congress is the common consultation about the following 
generally important questions of the Pharmaceutical profession, viz. :•_ 
1. How and by what means can the scientific cultivation of Apothecaries be 
preserved and forwarded in the surest manner? 
2. How is the want of Assistants to be remedied to the advantage of both 
parties ? 
3. Will subsidies and pensions really be able to effect what is expected of 
them ? r 
4. What remedies are to be applied, to secure for practical Pharmacy a cor¬ 
responding position in all directions? 
5. What position does Pharmacy occupy with reference to the liberty of 
trades ? J 
6. IIow is it possible to realize by degrees a uniformity in the prescriptions of 
the Pharmacopoeias for galenical preparations? 
7. Is it desirable that the metric system of weights should be introduced by 
all the Apothecaries, and how is this to be attained in the most simple manner ? 
8. Would it answer the purpose to write all the Pharmacopoeias in the Latin 
language, and how is this to be attained ? 
9. By what means can Pharmaceutical charlatanry be opposed, and how is 
the trade in secret remedies to be reformed ? 
10. How is the sale of poisons to be regulated so as to prevent abuse dan¬ 
gerous to life and health, and at the same time not to render useful application 
of poisons too difficult ? 
The several Unions, however, that have already promised their participation 
in this progress, as well as those that intend to do so afterwards, are empowered 
to propose other questions of general interest for consultation. 
Ihe town of Brunswick has been chosen as the place of meeting, and the time 
of the meeting is the 15th, 16th, and 17th September, 1865. 
Reserving for ourselves the communication of a more accurate programme 
for the course of the consultations immediately before the meeting of the Con¬ 
gress, we beg leave to point out in general as leading points the following 
The meeting is one of all the Pharmaceutical Unions destined to cause an ex¬ 
change of their opinions ; it is presumed that the deputy of each of them will 
