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BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
In connexion ■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 it to say that a subscription was raised, amounting to about £500, of 
which £200 invested in the form of plate, was presented to Mr. Sandford on 
the 19th of May last, on the evening of 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. 
The progress of scientific pharmacy as evidenced by the 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 neither unin- 
structive nor uninteresting if I direct your attention to a very few of the 
numerous valuable communications on pharmaceutical subjects that have been 
brought forward during the last twelve months, though as I have hinted, it is 
impossible for me to offer any fair resume of them in the few brief moments at 
my disposal. 
First let me notice the continued labours of Mr. John Eliot Howard on the 
chemistry and physiology of Cinchona, of which good proof is presented in his 
recently published Quinology of the East India Plantations , a copy of which is 
on the table. In this fine work, the author discusses a variety of subjects con¬ 
nected with the culture of Cinchona in India, such as the acclimatization of the 
various species, the elevation above the sea-level at which the culture proves 
most successful, the effects of protecting with moss the stems from which the 
bark has been removed, the mode in which the bark is renewed, the chemical 
constitution of the wood and leaves of Cinchona, etc. The so-called mossing- 
process , which simple as it is, seems likely to play an important part in cinchona- 
culture, consists in covering with moss the portion of stem from which a strip of 
“puissent faire abortix, simples ou composees, a nulles gens, qui soient hors de la foy chres- 
“ tienne, ni a aucunes gens avoir se il ne connoissent bien, que il soit maistre ou sciencier, ou 
“ expert en la science de medecine, et bien cognu, lequel il cuideront en leur conscience 
“ souffisant, que ce soit par expres commandement de physicien, qui les eut envoye querir, et 
“ se comme dessus est dit * * * * * 
“ * * * et aussi que les medecines electuaires ou opiates, ou quelconques medecines de 
“ longue conservation, faites et mises en pots, ou autres vaisseaux convenables par eux, ils 
“mettront sur le pot, 1’an et le mois de la confection, et que il vendront a loial, juste 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 taclie, toutefois que requis en 
“ seront.” 
“ Mandement portant que les remedes des apotliicaires de Paris, seront visites par les mede- 
cins de la faculte.” 
“ Philippes par la grace de Dieu, roy de France: au prevost de Pans, ou son lieutenant, 
“ salut.” 
“ * * * * et que tu les contraignes a montrer ausdits maistres [de la faculte de mede- 
“ cine] les medecines laxatives, et les opiates, qui se gardent par long temps, pour les voir, 
“ avant que elles soient confites, et s 9 avoir qu’elles soient bonnes et fraich.es et non cor- 
“ rompues et tresallees * * * ” 
“ Donne a Paris le 22 de Mai 1336.” 
