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mainly by an organized and well educated body of druggists 
themselves. 
6. That advantage would also be derived from stated au- 
thoritative advertisements of the wholesale prices of genuine 
drugs, and authoritative announcements of newly discovered 
adulterations. 
7. That although your Committee do not think it their 
duty at present to suggest any specific means for carrying the 
above mentioned measures into effect, they w T ould strongly 
recommend that the state of the case be made generally 
known by the authority of the College, and for this end that 
the College shall publish this Report, together with an Ap- 
pendix consisting of detailed observations on the subject, 
which have been communicated to your Committee by their 
Secretary, and are lodged herewith. 
8. That the proceedings of the College be communicated 
to the Royal College of Surgeons, with the view of ascertain- 
ing whether, and in what way, the two bodies may co-operate 
in carrying into effect any resolutions that on careful inquiry 
may seem to them advisable. 
In name of the Committee, 
R. C. Sec. 
APPENDIX. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 
BY DR. CHRIST ISO N. 
It is well known to every one practically conversant, with 
pharmacy, that the adulteration of drugs is at present practised 
in Britain to a most injurious extent, and a general feeling 
prevails that it has been for some years past upon the increase. 
Whether this impression be correct or not, there can be no 
doubt of the extreme frequency of the practice. It may be 
safely averred as the result of the best inquiries on the sub- 
ject, that few medicines in general use escape occasional so- 
phistication; that some are scarcely ever pure; that the impu- 
