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CONVENTION OF PHARMACEUTISTS AND DRUGGISTS. 
The committee appointed yesterday made a report in reference 
to the special object of the convention, followed by a preamble 
and resolutions in reference to a general organization of Pharma- 
ceutists throughout the United States, which was read. 
The report was considered in sections with full, deliberate, 
and very interesting discussion, in which the members generally 
participated, and after some amendments, the following portions 
of the document which embrace the views and recommendations 
of the convention were adopted. 
" 1. We consider that the Law is already ample in its general 
provisions in guarding the admission of drugs, medicinal sub- 
stances and preparations, under the reference which it distinctly 
requires to the Pharmacopoeias and Dispensatories specified in it ; 
we think it right to designate a few prominent articles for which 
positive standards are required. 
" 2. All drugs and chemicals employed in manufacturing 
chemical preparations used in medicine, may be admitted of less 
than standard purity, upon sufficient bonds being given that such 
articles are solely to be devoted to said uses. 
" 3 Opium should not contain less than eight per cent of pure 
morphia, unless intended for manufacturing [into morphia, codeia 
and other chemical principles. Ed.] as above stated. 
" 4. Two varieties of scammony should be admitted, < Aleppo 
cake scammony,' that contains not less than 40 per cent, of true 
scammony resin; and the so-called Virgin scammony that 
contains not less than 65 per cent, of the same resinous principle. 
" 5. All elaterium not containing 25 per cent, of elaterin 
should be rejected. 
" 6. Iodine, unless intended expressly for manufacturing, should 
not contain more than 3 per cent, of water, and should be free 
from all other impurities. 
"7. Gum resins used solely in medicine, as assafoetida, ammo- 
niac, &c, should be rejected w T hen they contain more than 15 
per cent, of extraneous matter, whether accidental or designed. 
" 8. Barks derived from the Cinchonas growing in the northern 
Provinces of South America, and which contain cinchonia with or 
without quinia, should be admitted ; all other barks falsely sold 
as cinchona bark, should be ^ejected. [This section is intended to 
apply to the false barks derived from the region mentioned, 
