THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OP 
PHARMACY. 
JANUARY, 1843. 
ART. LV.— REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF REVISION, ON 
THE NEW PHARMACOPOEIA, MADE TO THE COLLEGE, 
AT A SPECIAL MEETING, NOV. 6th, 1841. 
To the President and Members of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
Gentlemen : — "The Committee of Revision," appointed 
on the 30th day of March, last, to whom was assigned the 
duty of examining and amending the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, 
having now reached a position in which they find themselves 
prepared to submit their labors to the College, and to retire 
from the highly responsible and important trust with which 
they have been honored, respectfully proffer a full and accurate 
account of their proceedings, together with a general statement 
of the result of their examination and revision in the annexed 
REPORT. 
The character and extent of the duties which have occupied 
the Committee for a period of nearly eight months, are such 
that a minute detail of them to theCollege,and a review of them 
by it, cannot possibly be expected, much less accomplished ; and 
it will, therefore, be necessary that such a confidence shall be 
reposed in the Committee by the College, as will allow it to 
sanction or adopt the revised edition which the Committee 
here present, without the close scrutiny and inspection which, 
under other circumstances, could scarcely be dispensed with. 
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