NEW YORK COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
305 
ART. LXXXIL— CIRCULAR OF THE NEW YORK COLLEGE OF 
PHARMACY RELATIVE TO THE ADULTERATION OF 
DRUGS. 
The undersigned, a Committee of the Trustees of the 
College of Pharmacy, of the city of New York, respectfully 
solicit your attention to the proceedings of the Board, on the 
9th inst., viz. : 
"At a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 
College of Pharmacy, of the city of New York, held August 
9th, 1S47, convened for the express purpose of taking into 
consideration the hest measures to prevent the introduction, 
throughout the United States, of sophisticated and mis- 
named Chemical and Pharmaceutical preparations — it was 
unanimously 
" Resolved, That the officers of this Institution be request- 
ed forthwith to call the attention of the Secretary of the 
Treasury of the United States to the fact that large quanti- 
ties of spurious medicinal preparations are being introduced 
daily into this country, not only to the prejudice of the 
custom house revenue and the honest importer, but in the 
sequel jeoparding the health and lives of all those who re- 
quire medical aid throughout the land. That the Secretary 
of the Treasury be respectfully requested to apply the most 
stringent regulations within his power, to check this alarm- 
ingly growing evil. 
" It was further Resolved, That the Philadelphia College 
of Pharmacy, and other colleges of Pharmacy and of Medi- 
cine, be officially requested to unite with us, in presenting 
memorials to Congress, to devise means to suppress this 
most dangerous fraud, by making all such sophisticated 
articles liable to forfeiture." 
In accordance with our instructions, we respectfully ask 
your co-operation in a general call upon Congress, at its 
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