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SELECTED ARTICLES. 
ART. XLV.— REVIEW OF THE "REPORT FROM THE 
SELECT COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, 
WITH THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE AND APPEN- 
DIX. Part III. Society of Apothecaries, London. Ordered by the 
House of Commons to be Printed, 13th of August, 1834." 
f Con eluded from page 1 7 1 . J 
Supply of drugs.* Both by their Charter and the Act, the 
Society of Apothecaries were constituted a trading company, 
and this privilege seems to have been conferred upon them, 
in order that a supply of pure drugs and preparations might 
be secured for the public. Much has been spoken and written 
regarding the superior management of the pharmaceutical de- 
partment at the Hall ; and two chemists are employed to 
superintend the processes. It would appear, however, that 
not only do they supply themselves from British manufacturers 
with various substances of a bulky nature, but that they even 
decline preparing those articles which, from their cost and 
composition, are liable to be adulterated, and which it is of 
the highest consequence, — both to the safety of the patient and 
the credit of the practitioner, — to have in the purest form 
possible. 
Mr. Field, the Treasurer, who describes his duty to be a 
general superintendence of the pharmaceutical department, 
states that the Apothecaries' Company does not prepare nitric, 
sulphuric, tartaric, and citric acids, which, it is well known, 
are not made by the manufacturer according to the processes 
* The two divisions of the review devoted to the Education of Candi- 
dates and Examiners and Examinations have been omitted, as they embrace 
subjects more intimately connected with the practice of medicine, &c., 
than pharmacy, and involve a question of superiority between the English 
and Scotch schools, matters for which our pages are not sufficiently 
numerous. 
