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been asserted, and are less debasing than the European practice of excess 
in alcohol, and its moderate use not more injurious than is the moderate 
use of alcoholic liquors. But as this subject is more interesting to those 
who assume the terrible responsibility of administering, wholesale, to the 
depraved appetite of a nation, despite the opposition of its rulers, we will 
not occupy space with the arguments, however plausible. The reader is 
referred to a paper on the subject of India opium, by Prof. Carson, vol. xxi 
page 195, of this Journal, in which he gives a description and some chemi. 
cal results, with several specimens of India opium, brought from China 
by Dr. Ruschenberger, U S. N. — Ed. Am. Jour. Pharmacy.] 
THE PHARMACEUTICAL CONVENTION OF 1852. 
By Edward Parrish. 
Having some months since proposed, in the Philadelphia Col- 
lege of Pharmacy, bringing together for mutual advantage and en- 
couragement, the scattered elements of what may be called the 
nascent profession of pharmacy, I read with interest the proceed- 
ings of the recent convention of Pharmaceutists in New York, 
calling a National Convention in this city next fall. These pro- 
ceedings, published in the last number of this Journal, and so for- 
cibly urged upon the attention of its readers under the editorial 
head, are worthy to be kept before the pharmaceutical public un- 
til the time of the proposed convention ; and as the purpose of 
the present article is to notice some of their details, and to offer 
some suggestions in relation to them, the Resolutions adopted in 
New York are here inserted. 
" Whereas, The advancement of the true interests of the great body of 
pharmaceutical practitioners in all sections of our country is a subject 
worthy of earnest consideration ; and whereas, pharmaceutists, in their in- 
tercourse among themselves, with physicians and the public, should be 
governed by a code of ethics calculated to elevate the standard and im 
prove the practice of their art* and whereas, the means of a regular phar- 
maceutical education should be offered to the rising pharmaceutists by the 
establishment of Schools of Pharmacy in suitable locations ; and whereas, it 
is greatly to be desired that the united action of the profession should be 
directed 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 
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