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September,  1901.  i 
International  Congresses. 
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tative  from  each  of  the  countries  represented  in  this  congress,  and  from  other 
countries  as  may  hereafter  be  determined. 
That  a  committee  of  five,  of  whom  the  President  of  this  congress  shall  be 
chairman,  be  now  chosen,  and  that  said  committee  shall  decide  what  other 
countries  besides  those  here  represented  shall  be  invited  to  join  in  the  work. 
The  committee  shall  also  determine  how  the  members  of  the  commission  shall 
be  appointed. 
That  this  congress  accept,  with  thanks,  the  proffer  of  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  of  the  sum  of  $1,000  to  help  in  defraying  the  expenses 
of  compiling,  publishing  and  distributing  an  international  pharmacopoeia. 
The  drafts  heretofore  offered  and  accepted  at  the  congresses  at 
St.  Petersburg  (page  374),  and  at  Brussels  (page  381),  had  failed  of 
realization. 
As  a  nucleus  of  an  international  pharmacopoeia  commission, 
Messrs.  Remington,  of  the  United  States  of  America,  Carteighe%  of 
Great  Britain,  and  von  Waldheim,  of  Austria,  were  proposed  and 
elected  as  members. 
The  seeond  question  discussed  referred  to  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion and  examination,  and  to  a  compulsory  curriculum.  Notwith- 
standing the  great  divergences  of  opinion  and  usages  prevailing  in 
the  various  countries,  the  following  resolutions  were  finally  agreed 
upon  : 
"  No  person  should  be  admitted  as  an  apprentice  in  pharmacy  unless  he  shall 
have  given  evidence,  by  satisfactory  passing  a  preliminary  examination,  that 
he  possesses  a  general  education  sufficient  for  that  purpose,  and  as  advanced  as 
the  conditions  of  the  practice  of  pharmacy  in  each  country  may  permit,  and 
this  term  of  apprenticeship  in  pharmacy  should  in  no  case  be  counted  so  far  as 
it  may  antedate  such  evidence  of  sufficient  preliminary  education. 
"The  compulsory  period  of  apprenticeship  should  be  no  less  than  four  years, 
including  the  time  devoted  by  the  apprentice  to  regular  attendance  upon  a 
course  of  instruction  in  a  college  or  school  of  pharmacy. 
"  Recognizing  the  inadequacy  of  examinations  as  a  means  of  determining 
the  qualifications  of  persons  seeking  the  important  privilege  of  dispensing  and 
compounding  medicines,  this  Congress  approves  of  the  establishment  of  a 
compulsory  curriculum  of  pharmaceutical  education,  and  holds  that  no  person 
should  be  regarded  as  a  qualified  pharmacist  who  has  not  pursued  to  completion 
a  systematic  course  of  instruction  in  the  various  branches  of  pharmaceutical 
sciences,  and  delegates  in  this  Congress  are  requested  to  lend  their  aid  toward 
securing  the  recognition  of  a  principle  of  so  much  fundamental  importance  to 
pharmacy." 
The  third  and  final  question  from  the  comprehensive  array  of  the 
programme  was  the  relation  of  the  pharmacist  to  public  sanitation, 
particularly  in  the  matter  of  the  adulteration  of  food.    After  brief 
