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Minutes  of  the  College. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pnarm. 
\      May,  1877. 
fully  observed  in  all  future  revisions  of  our  Pharmacopoeia.  And  if  in  these 
times  of  considerable  heat — and  there  will  probably  be  a  lively  discussion  in 
the  Medical  Association  at  its  next  meeting — if  this  College  could  send  some 
positive  recommendation  in  regard  to  the  revision  of  the  "  Pharmacopoeia,"  and  take 
into  account  the  method  adopted  in  the  German  Pharmacopoeia  (six  or  eight 
were  obliterated  in  making  this  grand  Pharmacopoeia);  if  this  College  can  give 
the  American  Medical  Association  a  suggestion  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  which 
shall  be  assimilated  to  the  German,  and  lay  the  foundation  for  an  easy  approach  to 
the  foundation  of  a  universal  Pharmacopoeia,  it  will  have  done  a  very  valuable  work 
for  the  Medical  Association  and  for  this  College  ;  for  it  would  be  for  their  mutual 
Interests. 
Prof.  P.  W.  Bedford,  New  York.  At  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  held  in  this  building  last  summer,  the  subject  was  brought  up 
by  Dr.  Squibb,  who  offered  a  series  of  resolutions  which  were  preceded  by  a  resolu- 
tion, that  the  "American  Pharmaceutical  Association  devote  an  hour  of  its  third 
session  for  the  discussion  of  its  interests  in  the  pharmacopoeia,  with  a  view  to  the 
adoption  or  rejection  of  the  following  preamble  and  resolutions  and  then  follow 
the  preamble  and  resolutions  in  regard  to  the  Medical  Association  taking  the  work 
and  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  offering  its  hearty  co-operation,  etc.  When 
this  was  followed  by  Dr.  Squibb's  remarks,  I  think  the  majority  of  those  present 
hardly  conceived  the  full  idea  that  he  was  making  known.  It  became  evident  to 
those  present  that  it  was  intended  to  be  brought  up  in  the  afternoon  for  discussion 
^and  vote  whether  to  adopt  the  resolutions  or  not.  The  members  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  Committee  on  Revision  were  present,  and  concluded 
that  it  was  hardly  the  fair  way  to  get  at  it,  and  they  prepared  another  set  of  resolu- 
tions, which  are  on  record  in  the  proceedings,  and  were  intended  to  be  non-com- 
mittal. 
After  the  discussion  had  been  gone  into  for  some  time,  Dr.  Squibb  said  that  this 
was  not  intended  for  adoption,  but  merely  for  discussion.  At  the  time  the  resolu- 
tion was  not  particularly  re-read,  and  after  the  Association  had  heard  a  little  more 
discussion,  it  laid  the  subject  on  the  table.  But  after  the  adjournment  of  the  meet- 
ing I  read  the  resolution,  and  found  that  it  said  not  only  "  discussion,"  but  also 
*{  with  a  view  to  the  adoption  or  rejection  of  the  resolutions  "  which  Dr.  Squibb 
offered  The  matter  came  up  rather  unexpectedly,  and  it  provoked  a  good  deal  of 
discussion  and  some  personality,  which  I  was  sorry  to  hear. 
The  question  at  issue  is,  shall  the  Medical  Association  control  the  revision  of  the 
"  Pharmacopoeia  "  or  not?  Our  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  are  representative  bodies, 
and  interested  in  this  work  5  and  availing  myself  of  your  invitation  to  take  part  in 
these  proceedings,  I  think  the  views  of  outsiders  may  not  be  entirely  uninteresting. 
Shall  this  College,  or  any  college,  permit  itself  to  acquiesce  in  any  proceeding  result- 
ing in  identifying  itself  with  the  Medical  Association  at  all?  The  more  I  have 
looked  into  the  pamphlets,  the  more  I  am  convinced  that  the  whole  thing  is  wrong. 
There  is  no  method  suggested  by  Dr.  Squibb  that  equals  in  its  provisions  the  pro- 
visions already  made  by  the  National  Convention  5  therefore  it  would  be  entirely 
wrong  for  any  of  the  Colleges  of  Pharmacy  to  give  any  adhesion  whatever  to  this 
proposed  plan  of  Dr.  Squibb's.    There  should  be  a  decided  negative  against  it. 
