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Michael  Carteighe. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharra. 
}     August,  1910. 
gested  itself  to  Mr.  Carteighe  at  an  early  period  of  his  pharma- 
ceutical career,  many  years  elapsed  before  an  opportunity  of  testing 
the  practicability  of  any  scheme  based  on  that  idea  presented  itself. 
Private  interests  blocked  the  way  of  progress,  and  there  was  a  stern 
fight  to  wage  against  inertia,  prejudice,  and  jealousy.  Chance,  how- 
ever, provided  the  needed  opportunity  in  the  year  1903,  when  the 
judgment  in  the  case  of  Farmer  v.  Glyn-Jones  created  a  difficulty 
which,  it  seemed,  could  best  be  met  by  the  publication,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society,  of  a  chemists'  formulary 
of  approved  remedies.  At  the  Council  meeting  in  August  of  that 
year  Mr.  Carteighe  proposed  that  a  Compendium  of  Medicines  in 
general  use  should  be  published  by  authority  of  the  Council.  It  was 
pointed  out  by  Mr.  Carteighe  that,  apart  from  the  British  Pharmaco- 
poeia and  the  "Unofficial  Formulary"  of  the  British  Pharmaceutical 
Conference,  there  was  no  authoritative  work  dealing  with  that  enor- 
mous class  of  medicines  known  as  domestic  remedies.  Moreover, 
it  was  urged,  medical  men  and  chemists  and  druggists  knew  less 
about  the  compounding  of  medicines  than  even  they  did,  and  the 
British  Pharmacopoeia  was  no  guide  to  them.  It  was  also  insisted 
by  Mr.  Carteighe  that  medical  men  had  not  the  time  to  learn  how 
to  prescribe  properly,  much  less  to  learn  how  to  compound  medicines, 
nor  was  there  any  authoritative  work  on  unofficial  medicines  to 
which  they  could  refer  for  illustrations  of  what  they  ought  to  pre- 
scribe. Mr.  Carteighe's  motion  was  carried,  a  Committee  appointed, 
the  work  set  in  hand,  and  the  Codex  published  in  October,  1907. 
It  should  be  noted  that  the  Council  decided  that  the  Codex  should 
not  consist  solely  of  recipes  for  medicines,  which,  in  accordance  with 
the  decision  of  the  Inland  Revenue  with  reference  to  the  judgment 
already  referred  to,  would  become  liable  to  medicine  stamp  duty  after 
January  1,  1904.  That  was  a  special  difficulty  which  required 
special  treatment,  and  for  that  purpose  "  The  Pharmaceutical  Journal 
Formulary  "  was  compiled,  and  it  is  important  to  note  that  it  was 
mainly  due  to  Mr.  Carteighe's  influence  that  this  work  was  produced, 
as  well  as  the  Codex. 
Apart  from  the  anonymous  articles  already  referred  to,  Mr.  Car- 
teighe did  not  contribute  many  scientific  papers  to  pharmacy,  the 
best  known  being  the  one  he  read  at  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Con- 
ference at  Exeter  in  1869  on  "  Syrup  of  Iodide  of  Iron,"  and  an 
article  written  for  The  Pharmaceutical  Journal  in  March,  1871,  on 
