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Pharmaceutical Convention held in New York, Oct. 15th, 1851. — In our 
last number it was stated that a Convention of delegates from the Colleges 
of Pharmacy had been called by the New York College, to meet in New 
York, for the purpose of considering the propriety and practicability of fix- 
ing a set of standard strengths and qualities of drugs and chemicals for 
the government of the United States Drug Inspectors. For an account of 
what was accomplished by the Convention, our readers are referred to an 
article at page 22, which was taken partly from a notice in the Boston 
Medical and Surgical Journal, partly from the Minute Book of the Secre- 
tary, and partly from our recollection of the occasion. 
Pharmaceutical Convention to meet in Philadelphia Oct. 6th, 1852. 
The following is a circular letter addressed by President Guthrie, to the 
pharmaceutists of the United States, on behalf of the late Pharmaceutical 
Convention. 
NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL CONVENTION. 
circular letter. 
New York, November 25th, 1851. 
Sir, — At a Meeting of Delegates from the Colleges of Pharmacy of the 
United States, held in this city, on the 15th of October, 1851, the following 
Preamble and Resolutions, explanatory of themselves, were offered, and, after 
a free and full discussion, unanimously adopted : 
u Whereas, The advancement of the true interest of the great body of Phar- 
maceutical Practitioners, in all sections of our country, is a subject wor- 
thy of earnest consideration : and Whereas, Pharmaceutists, in their inter- 
course among themselves, with Physicians, and the public, should be govern- 
ed by a Code of Ethics calculated to elevate' the Standard, and improve the 
Practice of their Art ; and Whereas, the means of a regular Pharmaceutical 
Education should be offered to the rising Pharmaceutists by the establish- 
ment of Schools of Pharmacy, in suitable locations ; and Whereas, it is 
greatly to be desired that the united action of the Profession should be di- 
rected to the accomplishment of these objects ; Therefore 
Resolved. That, in the opinion of this Convention, much good will result 
from a more extended intercourse between the Pharmaceutists of the several 
sections of the Union, by which their customs and practice may be assimi- 
lated : that Pharmaceutists would promote their individual interests and ad- 
vance their Professional standing by forming Associations for mutual protec- 
tion, and for the education of their Assistants, when such Associations have be- 
come sufficiently matured ; and that, in view of these important ends, it is 
further 
