Observations addressed to the chemists and druggists of Great Britain on the Pharmaceutical Society / by Jacob Bell.

  • Bell, Jacobus, -1859.
Date:
[1841]
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Credit: Observations addressed to the chemists and druggists of Great Britain on the Pharmaceutical Society / by Jacob Bell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    want. The School of Pharmacy, besides affording them the means of profitably spending their time, will also be a place of reference ; and a mutual benefit will be enjoyed by Members who want Assistants, and Associates requiring situations. The Periodical Meetings for scientific discussion will form a prominent feature in the School of Pharmacy. At these Meetings, papers on appropriate subjects will be read, and it is anticipated that a variety of discoveries and valuable information will emanate from this source. If this pro- ceeding should meet with ample encouragement, the sub- stance of the discussions will, in all probability, be published in the form of Transactions, and circulated among all the Members and Associates of the Society. These Meetings will also be a medium of scientific correspondence with our fellow-labourers in other nations, and enable us to maintain a character as Pharmaceutical Chemists to which we cannot now lay claim. The construction of a Laboratory on the most approved principles, containing all the needful apparatus, will afford facilities for practical researches which are likely to pro- mote the great object which we have in view. Lectures on Pharmaceutical operations may be instituted, and pupils in this department may i<r walk the laboratory” as medical students “ walk the hospitals.” A complete Museum of Materia Medica, comprising specimens of good and bad drugs (exhibiting the difference), and a Library of standard works, required by students,jiv ill constitute a necessary, and at the same time a valuable, appendage to the laboratory. While providing for our own wants and advancement, those among us who are blessed with prosperity and com- parative affluence, should not be unmindful of our unfortu-