The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / by authority of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia, held at Washington, A.D. 1860.

Date:
1864
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Credit: The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / by authority of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia, held at Washington, A.D. 1860. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    incorporated State Medical Societies, the incorporated Medical Colleges, the incorporated Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and the incorporated Colleges of Pharmacy throughout the United States, to elect a number of dele- gates, not exceeding three, to attend a General Conven- tion, to be held at Washington on the first Wednesday in May, 1870. 2. The several incorporated bodies, thus addressed, shall also be requested by the President to submit the Pharmacopoeia to a careful revision, and to transmit the result of their labours, through their delegates or through any other channel, to the next Convention. 3. The several medical and pharmaceutical bodies shall be further requested to transmit to the President of this Convention the names and residences of their respective delegates, as soon as they shall have been appointed, a list of whom shall be published, under his authority, for the information of the medical public, in the newspapers and medical journals, in the month of March, 1870. 4. In the event of the death, resignation, or inability to act of the President of the Convention, these duties shall devolve upon the Vice-Presidents in succession; or, should the Yice-Presidents also be prevented from serving, upon the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, the latter acting in the event of the inability of the former. Mr. Meakim, under instructions from the New York College of Pharmacy, submitted a proposition, which was adopted, that the Index of the Pharmacopoeia shall have its names so marked for the quantity of the syllables that