The American Medical Association and the United States pharmacopoeia

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Eagle Job and Book Print. Department, 1877 - 157 pages
 

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Page 59 - Convention for the same purpose, in the year 1860, by the following resolutions : — " 1. The President of this Convention shall, on the first day of May, 1859, issue a notice requesting the several 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...
Page 67 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 157 - In the case of a dictionary, map, guide-book, or directory, when there are certain common objects of information which must, if described correctly, be described in the same words, a subsequent compiler is bound to set about doing for himself that which the first compiler has done.
Page 156 - In what respect does the right of an author differ from that of an individual who has invented a most useful and valuable machine ? In the production of this, his mind has been as intensely engaged, as long, and, perhaps, as usefully to the public, as any distinguished author in the composition of his book.
Page 102 - Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the President, to report, as soon as practicable, to the present session of this Association, upon the following :— 1.
Page 110 - That the Surgeon-General of the Army, the Surgeon-General of the Navy, and the supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine Hospital Service...
Page 19 - ... expected to yield better results in the future than at the last revision, where a committee of five or more gave their time, knowledge, skill, and labor, as it could be spared, through a period of more than two years, gratuitously. From this it would appear that the present Pharmacopoeia is as good as could be justly expected, and that its defects may be in great measure chargeable to an attempt to get important labor, which but few have the knowledge and skill to render, without paying for it....
Page 156 - No one can deny that when the legislature are about to vest an exclusive right in an author or an inventor, they have the power to prescribe the conditions on which such right shall be enjoyed; and that no one can avail himself of such right who does not substantially comply with the requisitions of the law.
Page 102 - Philadelphia Medical Times, Medical and Surgical Reporter, The American Journal of Pharmacy, New York Medical Record, and New Remedies, as soon as possible. Dr. Albert H. Smith presented the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the Society...
Page 10 - Pharmacopoeia; and, if it be the proper source of the National Codex, whom can it invite to co-operate with it in the work ? " Third. If it be a work for this Association, in what way can its details be wisely undertaken with any prospect of material improvement upon the present plan ? " Resolved, That, in order to facilitate mature and general deliberation upon so important a subject, the final discussion of these resolutions be laid over for at least one year, and that the matter be recommended...

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