REPORT RELATIVE TO PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS. 
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Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by this con- 
vention, to act as a standing committee, to collect and receive 
such information as may be valuable, and memorials and sugges- 
tions from medical and pharmaceutical associations, to be pre- 
sented to the next convention. 
The President appointed G. D. Coggeshall of New York, S, 
M. Colcord of Boston, and W. Procter, Jr. of Philadelphia, as 
the committee. 
A vote of thanks to the officers was passed, and then the con- 
vention adjourned, to meet in Philadelphia on the first Wednes- 
day in October, 1852. 
REPORT OF A JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE PHILADELPHIA 
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY AXD THE PHILADELPHIA COL- 
LEGE OF PHARMACY, EELATIYE TO PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIP- 
TIONS. 
{Published by order of the Board of Trustees of the Philada. Coll. of PJiarm.) 
The joint Committees of the Philadelphia County Medical So- 
ciety, and of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, appointed for 
the purpose of considering the means best adapted to prevent the 
occurrence of mistakes in the compounding of the prescriptions of 
Physicians by Apothecaries, beg leave to report that they have 
given to the subject all the attention that its importance demands, 
and present the following hints as the results of their joint delibe- 
rations. They have taken the liberty of adding, also, a few gene- 
ral hints on the relations that should exist between physicians and 
pharmaceutists. 
A. In Respect to Physicians. 
1. Physicians should write their prescriptions carefully and legi- 
bly, making use of good paper, and, whenever possible, of pen and 
ink. When obliged to write with a pencil, they should take the 
precaution to fold the prescription twice, so as to prevent its being 
defaced. 
2. The nomenclature of the United States Pharmacopoeia is be- 
coming annually more in favor with pharmaceutists ; a statement 
attested by the fact that 1500 copies of the book of Latin Labels 
for shop furniture, published by the Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy, have been disposed of within three years. Physicians are 
