The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America / by authority of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia, held at Washington, A.D. 1890.

  • National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia.
Date:
1893
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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. 1890. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of delegates, not exceeding three, to attend a General Convention to be held at Washington, D.O., on the first Monday in January, 1840.” The plan of the New York Convention for a revision of the Phar- macopoeia in 1835 was subsequently abandoned. The plan of the Washington Convention for a revision in 1840 was quite generally recognized as the more feasible, and was fully carried out. The notices for the choice of delegates to the Convention of 1840 were issued by Lewis Condict, M.D., President of the Washington Convention of 1830, in accordance with the resolution quoted above. The Convention assembled at Washington on the first day of January, 1840, twenty delegates being present, representing the Ehode Island Medical Society, the New Jersey Medical Society, the College of Phy- sicians of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania, the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, the Delaware Medical Society, the Washington University of Baltimore, the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, the Columbian Medical College, the Vincennes Medical Society of Indiana, and the Medical Society of Georgia. The credentials of delegates from the Medical Society of Vermont, the Medical Society of New Hampshire, the Albany Medical College, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lexington, Kentucky, were presented, but the delegates did not make their appearance during the session. Lewis Condict, M.D., of New Jersey, was elected President. With the view of giving the various medical interests of the country proper representation in the Convention, the Surgeon-General of the Army and the senior surgeon of the Navy stationed at Washington were invited to participate in the proceedings. The Convention ap- pointed a Committee of Eevision and Publication, consisting of seven members, three to form a quorum, and the meetings of the Committee to be held at Philadelphia. To this Committee were referred all communications received by the Convention from the various organ- izations represented. The Committee was authorized to request the co-operation of the colleges of pharmacy in the United States, and to publish the work after the completion of the revision. Valuable assistance was rendered the Committee by the Colleges of Pharmacy of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, especially by the latter. The book was not published until early in the year 1842. In this re- vision the Latin version was omitted. The process of displacement or percolation was introduced for the first time. Before adjourning, provision was made, by the following resolution, for a Convention in 1860 :