Circular.

New York, 1818]

2 unnumbered leaves ; (4to)

Austin 1281

Caption title

An invitation to American medical societies and schools to participate in the formation of a national pharmacopoeia. Circular letter, dated Mar. 4, 1818, is signed by David Hosack and other members of a "special committee of correspondence" appointed by the Medical Society of the State of New York. The proposed pharmacopoeia was published in Boston in 1820 under title: The pharmacopoeia of the United States of America

"Extract from the Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New-York, for the year 1818" (resolutions respecting the formation of a national pharmacopoeia): p. [2-3]

Copy 1 Note: Circular letter dated 21st Nov., 1818, signed by David Hosack et al.