Meetings  at  the  College. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pliarm 
1  November,  1903. 
interchange  of  opinions  on,  matters  relating  to  their  trade  or  pro- 
fession, is  evidenced  by  the  records  found  in  the  early  minutes  of 
the  college  meetings  and  the  printed  contributions  in  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy. 
By  referring  to  the  minutes  of  the  college  it  will  be  found  that  at 
the  first  stated  meeting  after  the  organization  of  the  college,  a  com- 
mittee was  appointed  to  inquire  into  and  to  report  on,  the  desirability 
of  recommending  the  then  new  Pharmacopoeia  of  the  United  States 
to  the  apothecaries  of  Philadelphia.  This  committee,  after  a  thorough 
examination  of  the  book,  made  an  exhaustive  report  on  the  deficien- 
cies and  shortcomings  of  this  first  official  pharmacopoeia,  and  also 
embodied  in  their  report  a  number  of  suggestions  for  improving  the 
book  from  a  practical  point  of  view.  How  far-reaching  the  report 
of  this  first  committee  on  the  national  pharmacopoeia  really  was, 
has  been  referred  to  in  a  memoir  of  Daniel  B.  Smith,  presented  at 
the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  during 
the  past  summer. 
Another  matter,  that  was  considered  to  be  of  very  great  import- 
ance at  that  time,  was  the  discussion  and  adoption  of  standard 
formulas  for  what  were  then  known  as  patent  medicines. 
On  May  22,  1822,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Solomon 
Temple,  Daniel  B.  Smith,  Charles  Allen,  Warder  Morris  and  Dr. 
Samuel  Jackson  were  appointed  a  committee  to  submit  to  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  for  their  approbation,  such  prescriptions  for  the  prep- 
aration of  patent  medicines  as  the  committee  deemed  most  appro- 
priate. This  committee  appears  to  have  had  some  difficulty  in 
agreeing  on  a  satisfactory  line  of  recipes,  for  it  was  not  until  May 
18,  1824,  that  Stephen  North  and  William  Baker  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  procure  the  printing  of  250  copies  of  the  recipes  for 
patent  medicines. 
This  first  unofficial  formulary,  a  very  unpretentious  one,  contained 
formulas  for  Hooper's  female  pills,  Anderson's  Scot's  pills,  Bate- 
man's  drops,  Godfrey's  cordial,  Dalby's  carminative,  Turlington's 
balsam  of  life,  Steer's  opodeldoc,  and  British  oil.  It  is  quite  probable 
that  not  a  single  copy  of  this  first  formulary  is  in  existence  at  the 
present  time.  The  report  of  the  committee  and  the  accompanying 
formulas  were  reprinted,  however,  in  Volume  5  of  the  American 
Journal  of  Pharmacy  (1833,  page  20). 
To  allow  the  members  to  come  together  more  frequently,  to  dis. 
