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THE PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS. 
[August 24, 1872- 
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BRITISH PHARMACEUTICAL CONFERENCE. 
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reading 1 
of the President’s 
At the conclusion of the 
Address— 
Mr. Savage said: Gentlemen, as a local member of the j 
Conference a very pleasing duty devolves upon me; and 
after the very able and exhaustive address which we i 
have had from our President, I am sure any words from 
me would fall far short of the expression of feeling 
which has been manifested here to-day. Throughout 
it has been an admirable treatise. Commencing in the 
educational course with the Preliminary examination, it 
proceeded to deal with the Minor and next with the j 
Major examinations, and these have been supplemented j 
by the ladies,—which comes with an excellent grace I 
from the President, seeing that he is a bachelor. I have | 
now a very pleasing duty to perform. It is simply to move , 
that a vote of thanks be accorded to H. B. Brady, Esq., 
for the very admirable address which he has now given. 
The motion was seconded by Mr. Brew, and carried 
unanimously. 
The President : I feel, gentlemen, that my thanks 
are rather due to you tor the consideration which you 
have extended to me while reading - what I have thought 
to be a somewhat matterless address. Had circumstances 
admitted it, I would rather have attempted to make my 
address correspond in character, if not in ability, 
with the addresses which have preceded it from this 
chair. As I stated at the beginning, circumstances 
have entirely precluded my giving that attention to 
matters of research and to pharmaceutical matters 
generally beyond the mere business attention that I have 
usually endeavoured to accord. But it seemed to me 
that there was perhaps something to be said on these 
matters that I have touched upon; and it is gratifying 
to me that you have received them in the very kindly 
way you have, although my thanks are due rather to 
you than yours to me. 
Election of Honorary Members. 
Mr. Hanbury : I have the honour of proposing that 
I)r. Edward Squibb, ot Brooklyn, New York, and Pro- 
iessor Markoe, of Boston, be elected honorary members 
ot the Conference. One of those gentlemen is now pre¬ 
sent. . I he other is a very distinguished pharmaceutist in 
Ameiica, and one whom it would be an honour for the 
Conference to associate with itself. 
The motion was seconded by r Mr. Schacht and carried 
unanimously. 
Professor George F. H. Maukoe : Mr. President and 
gentlemen of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, 
this lcception is altogether unexpected by me. I came 
to England not as a representative of the American 
1 harmaceutmal Association, although I have the honour 
of holding office in that Association, but simply as an 
American pharmacist, who came to see how his British 
brethren practised pharmacy. It is altogether‘im¬ 
possible for me to say anything which could properly 
give expression to the feelings which now possess me. 
I can only bear willing and, indeed, grateful testimony, 
to the kind attention I have received on every hand 
fr om the British pharmacists. Everywhere I have only 
had to mention that I was a pharmacist from America 
and it has been sufficient to secure for me a most hearty 
welcome and every attention. Although I have not 
come in an official capacity, I certainty should be false 
to the American Pharmaceutical Association, as one of 
its vice-presidents, if I did not extend to one and all the 
members ot this Conference the most hearty welcome to 
visit the sessions of the American Association at any 
time when it may suit them. The members of the 
American Pharmaceutical Association would be most 
glad to give them a hearty' welcome. The President has. 
alluded so eloquently to the subject of American phar¬ 
macy and the systems of education practised in America 
that it is needless to enlarge upon them; and it 
would be presumptuous for me, a mere stripling in phar¬ 
macy, to do so, when there is present at the meeting an 
American pharmacist of far greater distinction than 
myself, and who was distinguished in pharmacy r before I 
was born. 
Pharmaceutical Education. 
The President said there were several papers on thi 3- 
subject to be read, and suggested that the discussion 
should be deferred until they' could all be considered 
together. 
Pharmaceutical Education. 
BY PROFESSOR ATTFIELD. 
Introduction. 
No apology is necessary for bringing the subject of 
pharmaceutical education before the members of tlic- 
British Pharmaceutical Conference ; for the Conference 
is an organization chiefly for the encouragement of 
pharmaceutical research, and research is impossible 
where education does not flourish. Before we can pro¬ 
mote pharmaceutical research we must promote pharma¬ 
ceutical education. Moreover, the Annual Meeting of the 
Conference affords the only opportunity' for discussion 
of the whole subject of pharmaceutical education by the 
leading pharmacists of the country. 
Some apology, however, is due from myself in expla¬ 
nation of the circumstance that a professional te acher in 
pharmacy should venture to address pharmacists, not on 
the aspects of education with which he is supposed to be 
familiar, but on the principles which underlie the whole 
question—matters on -which some one whose brain is not 
constantly occupied with the details of teaching- might 
be expected to think and write with greater breadth and 
effect. Moreover, I am aware that in advocating - the 
cause of pharmaceutical education a professor in a school 
of pharmacy lays himself open to the charge that his. 
utterances are the offspring of personal and interested 
motives. To these two points I do not allude for my 
own sake, but because I feel that if they were not men¬ 
tioned and explained the force of what I have te say 
would be diminished, and my subject suffer in conse¬ 
quence. At the outset, therefore, I would state that I 
only write this paper at the request of many pharma¬ 
ceutical friends. For the past eighteen months I have 
been urged privately, and, more recently by' correspon¬ 
dents in the Pharmaceutical Journal, to review the 
question of pharmaceutical education, and to give my 
opinions thereon. Hitherto I have refused for the above 
reasons, but repeated solicitation has overcome any' re¬ 
luctance, and I now proceed to write what I had hoped 
to have seen written before now by r some leader in phar¬ 
macy occupying a more independent position. 
Definition .—By pharmaceutical education I moan such 
instruction in the principles and practice of chemistry, 
botany, and materia medica, such a knowledge of practical 
dispensing or the compounding of medicines, and such- 
acquaintance with all that relates to prescriptions and the 
galenical preparations of a pharmacopoeia, as shall fit a 
man to be a chemist and druggist or a pharmaceutical 
chemist. 
The Claims to Importance of Pharmaceutical Education 
no longer need enforcement; they are recognized in 
almost every civilized country of the globe. England 
was not the first to acknowledge them; she was preceded, 
or has been outstripped by France, Germany', Russia 
and Switzerland. In Norway “the study of pharmacy 
is regulated by a law which dates from 1672,” (1.1. 
211).~ Still, thirty' years and more ago a Society was 
~ * Such figures (1. 1. 211) throughout this paper refer to 
tue series, volume and page of the Pharmaceutical- 
Journal. 
