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NATIONAL MEDICAL CONVENTION. 
the Convention of 1850, when it shall be his duty to hand 
thern over to such successor ; 2d, that in case of the death, 
resignation, or inability to act of the Secretary, his duties shall 
devolve upon the Assistant Secretary; and, 3d, that it be re- 
commended to future Conventions to appoint their Secretary 
and Assistant Secretary from members residing in the District 
of Columbia. 
Dr. Bond offered the following resolution,which was adopted : 
Resolved, That the Committee of revision and publication 
be requested to take such measures as they may deem most 
effective, to induce physicians and apothecaries to adopt the 
nomenclature of the Pharmacopoeia in their prescriptions and 
labels. 
Dr. Dunglison offered the following resolution: 
Resolved, That the officers of this Convention be requested 
to prepare forthwith for publication, such part of the transac- 
tions of this Convention as may seem to them to be adapted 
for making extensively known its important objects and pro- 
ceedings, and that they be authorized to publish the same in 
the various medical journals of the United States, and in such 
of the daily and other newspapers as they may think proper. 
This resolution was adopted, and it was made the duty of 
the Secretary and Assistant Secretary to carry it into effect. 
Having transacted business of great interest to the medical 
profession of their country, — having passed votes of thanks 
to the officers of the Convention " for the able and dignified 
manner in which they had discharged their respective duties," 
and to the Board of Aldermen of Washington for the use of 
their Hall, — the Convention, after a session of three days, 
characterized by a spirit of generous cordiality, which must 
contribute greatly to secure the objects for which they assem- 
bled, adjourned. By order, 
N. W. Worthington, Secretary. 
Harvey Lindsly, Ass't Sec'ry. 
P. S. — The medical journals throughout the United States are respect- 
fully requested to copy the forgoing abstract of the proceedings of the 
Convention. 
