376 
EDITORIAL. 
the  first  Wednesday  in  May,  1870,  and  requests  that  the  several  incor 
porated  bodies  shall,  after  a  revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  send 
the  results  of  their  labors  to  the  Convention,  and  further  requests  that 
they  transmit  to  the  President  the  names  and  residences  of  their  several 
delegates,  so  soon  as  elected,  that  the  list  may  be  published. 
George  B.  Wood,  M.  D. 
President  of  the  Convention  of  1860. 
It  will  be  observed  that  each  body  addressed  is  invited  to  revise  the 
pharmacopoeia  and  submit  the  result  to  the  Convention  through  the  dele- 
gates they  send.  It  is  not  expected  that  every  body  will  have  the  time 
or  energy  to  go  into  all  the  minutiae  of  a  revisory  committee  acting  for 
publication,  but  every  College  of  Pharmacy  at  least  should  produce  an 
interleaved  pharmacopoeia  embracing  such  suggestions  of  new  formulas 
and  criticisms  of  old  ones  as  they  may  deem  important.  In  this  wdy  the 
deliberately  expressed  views  of  physicians  and  pharmaceutists  of  all  sec- 
tions of  the  country  would  be  placed  before  the  committee  of  revi4on  and 
publication,  and  will  have  their  due  weight. 
Meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association. — Convened  at  New 
Orleans  on  the  4th  of  May  last  and  adjourned  on  Friday  the  7th.  The 
meeting  was  well  attended,  several  hundred  members  being  present. 
Dr.  G.  Mendenhall  of  Ohio  was  elected  President,  and  Drs.  Stone  of 
Louisiana,  Sayre  of  N.  York,  F.  Gurney  Smith  of  Penna.  and  Moore  of 
Missouri,  were  the  Vice-Presidents.  Dr.  J.  B.  Atkinson  of  Philada.* 
Permanent  Secretary.  The  most  important  labors  of  the  meeting,  out- 
side of  its  regular  programme,  were  in  reference  to  medical  education, 
nomenclature  of  diseases,  and  to  the  action  of  the  State  Societies  in  carry- 
ing out  ethical  rules  and  in  upholding  the  standard  of  education  among 
new  members  of  the  profession,  by  exacting  an  additional  examination 
by  a  State  board. 
Dr.  Herrick  of  Louisiana  offered  the  following  additional  Section  to 
Article  I,  of  the  Code  of  Ethics : 
"  Section  Y.  T'he  spirit  of  trade  and  of  gain  from  merchandise  should 
by  all  means  be  dissociated  from  the  practice  of  a  liberal  profession,  and 
it  is  important  that  practitioners  should  not  allow  their  pecuniary  in- 
terests to  compromise  their  duties  to  their  patients.  Therefore,  in  cities 
and  other  communities,  were  the  services  of  competent  apothecaries  can 
conveniently  be  obtained,  physicians  should  resign  to  them  the  whole 
business  and  profits  of  dispensing  medicines." 
The  resolution  lays  over  for  action  at  the  next  annual  meeting  at 
Washington. 
The  New  York  "Apothecaries  Act." — According  to  the  N.  Y. 
Medical  Gazette  of  May  8th,  the  following  is  a  copy  of  an  Act  passed  by 
the  Legislature  of  New  York,  and  then  awaiting  the  Governor's  signa- 
ture : 
