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LIVERPOOL chemists’ ASSOCIATION. 
Mr. Sharp considered it to be the relig:ious duty of every man who practised phar¬ 
macy to place that science in a fair and honourable position in the eyes of all men, and 
that he who resorted to the expedients of the quack and showman that thereby he 
might make a better living, while he fed himself, starved his avowed profession till it 
became a shadow and a myth. 
The conscientious man would endeavour to call things by their correct names, and 
whenever he had occasion to set up a sign-board would properly word the statement 
thereon. If he was merely a retailer of Warren’s blacking and clay pipes, with a half- 
dozen apologies for dispensing bottles in an invisible corner, he would not look so 
obliquely at matters of conscience as to apply to his sale of these things the words 
“family and dispensing chemist.” He would call a horse “a horse,” and would never 
confound that animal with another asinine member of creation in such a manner that 
if he established himself in the business of a horse-dealer, he would paint a horse over 
his door, and with impunity sell mules to a public which believed it was purchasing 
Arabian steeds. That advertising which was distinguished from an honest statement 
of certain articles should be known as Barnumizing. The pharmaceutist was perfectly 
justified in conveying information to the public respecting any article or preparation 
sold by him; but when day after day he put forth a series of statemeuis conveying to 
the public that the article produced could not be produced elsewhere, and that all who 
pretended to supply it resorted to “ tricks of trade,” with the additional gratifying in¬ 
formation that the Queen and Koyal Family had condescended to take a pot of pomatum 
or a box of pills, and that the aristocracy were flocking to obtain it, with the usual im¬ 
ploring request to send for a copy of testimonials, then the chemist and druggist 
voluntarily resigned the dignity of his calling, and became a member of the College of 
Quackery. 
Mr. Sharp advocated the formation of a Pharmaceutical Ethical Association, which 
should deal as the Medical Associations and the Odontological Society had done, with 
all suspicious advertisements. He thought that as the time had arrived when Parlia¬ 
ment was to be asked to place pharmacy on a footing with the restrictive professions, 
it was the duty of the Association and others like to it to seriously consider whether 
it should retain in its ranks men who systematically abused their brethren, and bowed 
at the infamous shrine of Holloway, Parr, Morrison, & Co. 
An animated discussion ensued, and a vote of thanks to Mr. Sharp was proposed 
by Mr. Eedford, and seconded by Mr. Abraham, for his very interesting, useful, and 
amusing paper. It was carried unanimously. 
Eleventh general meeting, held March 28th, 1867; the President, Mr. K. Sumner, in 
the chair. 
The minutes of previous meeting were read and passed. 
The following donations were announced :— 
To the Library—‘ New York Druggists’ Circular’ for March, from Mr. Mercer. 
To the Museum—Specimens of blue, white, and Greek gall, by Mr. Kobinson. 
The thanks of the meeting were accorded to the donors. 
Mr. Bedford made some remarks on a draft of the new Pharmacy Bill, contained in 
the ‘ Drug Circular.’ 
The President called upon Dr. Birkheck Nevins to read a paper entitled “ Remarks 
on the new French Codex.” 
The Author stated that he had been disappointed in perusing this work, in which he 
expected to find a scientific digest of modern pharmacy. The principal characteristics 
of the work are—firstly, the great extent of the Materia Medica, which has more than 
twice the extent of that of the British Pharmacopoeia; and the large number of indi¬ 
genous plants which it contains, in many cases of very similar properties. The appa¬ 
rent reason, as gathered from the preface, is, that in so large a country as France some 
plants are abundant in one part, and others of similar nature in another. An examina¬ 
tion of plants indigenous to England, contained in the Ph. Br., shows that the number 
is only 1 to 8 or 9, compared with those indigenous to France included in the French 
Codex. 
The second characteristic is, that the Codex had, to a very large extent, the appear¬ 
ance of an herbalist’s list rather than that of a chemist’s. Of the herbs to be kept by all 
