220  The  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  {Am^%^mA' 
reluctant  admissions  of  the  talented  Adversary  of  the  Convention. 
During  this  time  no  occasion  or  suspicion  of  any  rivalry  between  the 
two  leading  professions  represented  has  occurred  to  mar  its  equanimity 
or  to  distract  its  efforts.  Nor  has  the  pharmacist,  although  most 
directly  interested  in  the  result  of  its  action,  and  most  completely 
involved  in  the  details  of  its  execution,  ever  felt  aggrieved  that  he  has 
been  outnumbered  in  the  Convention  by  double  the  medical  representa- 
tion ;  or  ever  desired  a  change  in  the  constitution  or  the  method  of  the 
organization. 
It  is  now  proposed  to  abolish  this  Convention,  and  to  transfer  its 
great  work  entirely  to  the  keeping  of  a  Medical  Association.  The 
projector  has  not,  however,  been  guilty  of  the  stupendous  absurdity  of 
devising  a  production  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  with  Pharmacy  entirely 
^  left  out  j"  for,  he  says,  "  it  would  be  almost  as  impracticable  to 
manage  the  interests  involved  in  the  Pharmacopoeia  without  the 
co  operation  of  pharmacy,  as  for  pharmacy  to  manage  them  without 
medicine  ;  simply  because  pharmacy  has  accumulated  an  amount  of 
knowledge  and  experience,  which  medicine  has  long  ceased  to  work  for 
and  accumulate,  and  which  medicine  cannot  afford  to  do  without  or  to 
disregard."  (p.  8.)  A  verv  sufficient  statement  that  "  medicine  "  (in 
Dr.  Squibb's  use  of  the  word)  does  not  comprehend  "  pharmacy," 
and,  therefore,  does  not  comprise  "  the  united  interests  of  the  united 
parts,  found  in  this  country  in  the  American  Medical  Association,"  as 
he  has  so  fondly  persuaded  himself,  and  has  so  ingeniously  labored  to 
make  us  believe. 
How,  then,  is  this  grand  embodiment  of  "  the  united  interests  of 
4  medicine,'  and  not  the  interests  of  any  separate  part ;  the  united 
interests  of  the  united  parts  in  this  country,"  (p.  22.)  to  execute  its 
magnificent  programme  ?  "  Pharmacy  is  represented  in  the  National 
Pharmaceutical  Association  .  .  .  and  pharmacy  is  essential  to  the 
Pharmacopoeia  !  !"  (p.  8.)  Therefore,  it  is  proposed  that  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association  "  should,  in  a  proper  way,  invite  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  this  work,  under 
the  fully  recognized  leadership  of  the  American  Medical  Association  !" 
We  are  not  sure  that  there  is  not  a  typographical  error  in  this  quota- 
tion, and  that  the  word  "  invite  "  should  not  be  "  direct,"  especially  as 
we  find  this  latter  word  employed  on  the  preceding  page  in  a  somewhat 
similar  connection. 
