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of  such  institutions,  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  having 
been  founded  a  year  later.  The  title  page  of  the  first  Pharmacopoeia 
bears  the  statement  that  it  is  published  "  by  authority  of  the  medical 
societies  and  colleges  "  and  it  was  bilingual,  the  Latin  and  English 
text  appearing  on  facing  pages.  It  was  a  small  volume,  and  had  two 
lists,  one  of  the  materia  medica  and  one  of  preparations.  The 
bilingual  text  was  not  used  in  any  subsequent  edition,  but  the  dis- 
tinction between  materia  medica  and  preparations  was  maintained 
through  several  revisions. 
In  the  three  following  revisions,  1830,  1840,  and  1850,  the 
declaration  of  exclusive  medical  control  was  continued  in  a  state- 
ment on  the  title  pages  that  these  editions  are  issued  by  the  "  author- 
ity of  the  National  Medical  Convention."  In  all  the  earlier  con- 
ventions the  number  of  delegates  was  small,  and  in  one  case  several 
congressmen  were  made  part  of  the  membership,  because  they 
were  graduates  in  medicine. 
The  convention  of  1840  originated  the  formal  Committee  of 
Revision.  At  this  time  the  co-operation  of  colleges  of  pharmacy 
was  invited,  but  the  members  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  were 
still  all  physicians.  This  committee  consisted  of  seven  persons,  of 
whom  three  were  Philadelphians. 
Representative  pharmacists  were  present  as  full  delegates  for 
the  first  time  in  1850.  The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  sent 
three  and  the  New  York  College  two.  It  is  to  be  noted  that  a  dele- 
gate was  present  from  the  Medico-Chirurgical  College  of  Philadel- 
phia. About  thirty  delegates  in  all  were  present:  the  revision 
committee  consisted  of  eight,  of  whom  one  was  a  pharmacist.  Three 
members  of  the  committee  were  Philadelphians. 
The  next  revision  (i860)  eliminated  the  exclusive  medical 
authority,  the  volume  being  designated  as  issued  "  by  the  National 
Convention  for  Revising  the  Pharmacopoeia."  The  convention  con- 
sisted of  twenty  physicians  and  ten  pharmacists.  The  revision 
committee  in  addition  to  the  president  (a  physician  and  member 
ex  officio)  consisted  of  four  physicians  and  four  pharmacists,  but 
one  of  those  having  the  degree  of  M.D.  and  here  counted  as  a 
physician  was  practically  a  pharmacist  in  his  relations  to  the  revision. 
The  convention  of  1870  consisted  of  over  sixty  delegates  in 
actual  attendance,  about  one-third  being  pharmacists.  The  revision 
committee,  consisting  of  fifteen  members,  had  about  the  same  pro- 
portion of  the  two  classes  of  delegates.    In  this  committee  were  one 
