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MARYLAND  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Minute  of  tyt  Marqlanh  College  of  ^fmrtrnm}. 
Baltimore,  June  5th,  1856. 
At  the  stated  monthly  meeting  this  evening,  the  President,  Dr.  George 
W.  Andrews,  in  the  chair,  the  Board  of  Trustees  reported  the  organization 
of  the  School  of  Pharmacy,  on  a  plan  similar  to  that  of  the  Philadelphia 
College.    The  following  gentlemen  have  been  elected  Professors,  viz. : 
Dr.  Lewis  H.  Steiner,  Chemistry. 
Dr.  Charles  Frick,  Materia  Medica. 
Mr.  I.  J.  Grahame,  Practical  Pharmacy. 
Mr.  Thompson  submitted  formulae  for  compound  syrup  of  ipecacuanha 
and  powdered  blue  mass,  which  were  read,  and,  on  motion  of  Mr.  Moore, 
ordered  to  be  placed  on  file  for  future  reference. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Grahame,  the  subject  of  powdered  blue  mass  was  re- 
ferred to  a  Committee,  with  instructions  to  report  at  a  future  meeting  on 
the  merits  of  the  several  formulas  extant.  The  Chairman  appointed  Messrs. 
Grahame,  Sharp  and  Charles  Caspari. 
On  motion  of  Mr.  Moore,  a  Committee  was  appointed  to  procure  a  suitable 
room  for  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
which  will  convene  in  Baltimore  on  Tuesday,  9th  of  September,  1856.  The 
Chairman  appointed  Messrs.  Moore  and  Grahame. 
The  meeting  then  assumed  a  conversational  character,  and  an  animated 
discussion  of  the  Displacement  Process,  the  nature  of  the  changes  which 
are  observed  to  take  place  in  Syrup  Iodide  of  Iron,  and  the  different  methods 
of  preparing  Syrup  of  Ipecacuanha,  occupied  the  remainder  of  the  evening. 
Adjourned. 
WILLIAM  S.  THOMPSON,  Secretary, 
&nh  of  (Bt\m  at  %  §tergte&  Mk$t  ni  formats* 
Pharmacy  being  a  profession  which  demands  knowledge,  skill,  and  in- 
tegrity on  the  part  of  those  engaged  in  it,  and  being  associated  with  the 
medical  profession  in  the  responsible  duties  of  preserving  the  public  health, 
and  dispensing  the  useful  though  often  dangerous  agents  adapted  to  the  cure 
of  disease,  its  members  should  be  united  on  some  general  principles  to  be 
*  [A  pamphlet  containing  the  Charter,  Constitution  and  Code  of  Ethics  of 
the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy,  has  been  sent  to  us.  We  insert  the  "Code  " 
entire  as  being  a  document  calculated,  if  followed,  to  effect  a  great  reform  in 
practice. — Editor.] 
