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be indispensable. This can by no means, in our opinion, be so 
well obtained, as by the means adopted in the revision of the 
forth-coming edition, inviting the co-operation of our schools 
of pharmacy. A knowledge that those institutions have 
participated in the revision — that in all the points of view in 
which the pharmaceutist regards formulae, these formulae, now 
put forth for observance, have been examined, scrutinized and 
improved by those who have the interests and progress of 
pharmacy in charge, will do more to secure for the Pharma- 
copoeia the individual suffrage and support, which ultimately 
are to approve or condemn. It would by no means be the 
design of your Committee to assert that the reputation of the 
work depends on this cause alone, but added to the character 
which it receives from the knowledge that the formulae have 
received the examination and sanction of eminent members 
of the medical profession, and are, therefore, of such strength 
and proportions as will be approved in practice, a sure and 
important confirmation of it will be derived upon the same 
certainty that pharmaceutists have also shared in its pro- 
duction. Being designed for the use of two professions, it 
needs that two professions should have concurrent action in 
its creation. The physician will look to it as the work of a 
medical man; the apothecary will regard and value it as the 
work of pharmaceutists. The experience of the period which 
has elapsed since the publication of the last edition, fully 
justifies these remarks, and an appeal to the shop note-book 
and interlineations and comments which most Pharmacopoeias 
contain, will prove beyond question, that improved as the 
edition of 1830 was over its predecessor, in every respect, 
there was still room for the information, which the experience 
of the shop could alone supply. This information the revised 
edition will contain, and the possession of that experience, 
the increased reliance which therefore will be felt in the 
directions of the Pharmacopoeia, the consequent general adop- 
tion of it, the harmony of nomenclature, and the uniformity 
of preparation which it will insure, are unhesitatingly pro- 
nounced as important and vast, as they have been characterized. 
