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ensure a more rigid adherence to its formulae by their 
colleagues. While we would leave wholly to the phy- 
sician the office of prescribing, we consider that apothecaries 
are better calculated, from an accustomed familiarity with 
pharmaceutic manipulation to indicate the manner of conduct- 
ing the processes which should govern their profession. We 
are not singular in our opinion. It is the case all over the 
continent. In Germany, Spain, and in every other country 
except England, w T e have precedent before our eyes. 
We find a brilliant array of names from the Paris School of 
Pharmacy, associated with a committee of like number of Pro- 
fessors of the Faculty of Medicine, in the publication of the new 
Codex. Distinguished Pharmaciens,likeBussY,CAVENTOU,Ro- 
biquet, Pelletier, and Soubeiran, who are well known for 
their active researches in Pharmaceutic Chemistry, by their 
assistance in establishing new processes, suggesting modifica- 
tions of old, with the view to economy, or certainty of effect, 
and their careful revision of the whole matter, have given at 
once the impress of authority to a work, to which all the 
apothecaries of France conform. We have not the presumption 
to assume for ourselves the same level of celebrity with these 
gentlemen, but we think there might be found some talented 
and intelligent members of the Philadelphia College of Phar- 
macy, whose weight of experience might be brought into re- 
quisition, and who, we believe, might suggest such improve- 
ments upon some of the present formulae of the United States 
Pharmacopoeia as would enable the framers to devise better. 
The inordinate length of this paper admonishes to close 
here, but the subject, we trust, will not. 
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