The unconstitutional and illegal proceedings of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society / by William Dickinson.

  • Dickinson, William.
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[1853]
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Credit: The unconstitutional and illegal proceedings of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society / by William Dickinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY, TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. Gentlemen, As one of the Council, and a representative of a considerable number of the members of this Society, I feel myself called upon to lay before you a plain statement of facts, in order to refute the calumnies and accusations brought against me at various times. These accusations have been made with a view of exciting your sympathies, and in order to obtain your sanction to my removal from the responsible position in which I have been placed. Hitherto, the Council of your Society have, through the medium of their “ Journal,” been enabled to state their case in their own way, and convey to all the members of the Society exclusively their own views and senti- ments. This system they have hitherto been enabled to follow up at the charge of the funds of the Society. The “Pharmaceutical Journal” is placed at the disposal, and under the superintendence, of one man, who has not failed to avail himself of the opportunity of contributing “ articles ” on subjects wholly inconsistent with the objects to which a Journal of a scientific society should be exclusively dedicated. Nor, indeed, is this all. Reports of all meetings have been entirely left to the management of a zealous partisan, who, while he avails himself of the opportunity of report- ing and revising his own speeches and those of his immediate supporters, has not afforded the same advantage to those who have the misfortune to differ from him as to the management and conduct of the business of the Society. And I unhesitatingly assert that the statements of the latter have been garbled in a manner to suit the views of the reporter. By these means most of you have been kept wholly in the dark as to the real merits of the discussions that are now going on between the Council and some of the members. There are two principal accusations, or causes of complaint, brought against me:— First,—That as member of the Council, I have carried on a systematic opposition to the decisions of that body.