300 LAW IN REFERENCE TO ADULTERATED DRUGS. 
the country, by the late National Medical Convention, by 
Physicians and Apothecaries, and sound-hearted men of all 
parties, with almost unprecedented unanimity, a law has 
been enacted and signed by the President on the 26th June, 
1848, entitled, "An act to prevent the importation of adulte- 
rated and spurious drugs and medicines which, in our be- 
lief, is calculated to arrest the criminal traffic in spurious and 
adulterated drugs and chemical preparations intended for 
medical use, so far, at least, as relates to their importation 
from abroad, ( which, to the honor of our own country, we 
believe has hitherto been the chief source of this detestable 
species of fraud ;) and whereas, it becomes our duty from 
time to time, as occasion presents, to adopt such measures 
as we may find expedient to carry out one of the prominent 
objects of our Institution, viz. 'Uo guard against abuses in 
the preparation and sale of Medicines," therefore 
Resolved, That we will, collectively and individually, 
give our earnest aid to make this salutary law effective in 
all its parts. 
Resolved, That in our judgment, cheating in Medicine is 
a great moral — and ought to be legal— felony, compared 
with which, the counterfeiting of bank notes and coin are 
venial offences. 
Resolved, That we will collectively and individually take 
all proper measures to expose publicly, and discountenance 
in every manner, all persons in this country who may be 
detected in the base crime of adulterating and sophisticating 
articles and preparations intended to be sold as medicines, 
and that we will report them particularly to all Colleges of 
Pharmacy and Medical Institutions with which we corres- 
pond. 
Resolved, That should any of our own members be guilty 
of such acts, we recommend the prompt application of the 
seventh section of the third article of the By-Laws of the 
College, which is as follows: 
