American Medical Association and United States pharmacopoeia : a reprint of the pamphlets of Dr. H.C. Wood, Mr. Alfred B. Taylor, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the National College of Pharmacy / with a rejoinder addressed to the professions of medicine and pharmacy of the United States by Edward R. Squibb.

Date:
1877
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Credit: American Medical Association and United States pharmacopoeia : a reprint of the pamphlets of Dr. H.C. Wood, Mr. Alfred B. Taylor, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the National College of Pharmacy / with a rejoinder addressed to the professions of medicine and pharmacy of the United States by Edward R. Squibb. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTOBY SKETCH. fully discussed in the interests of the truth and justice involved. Accordingly, this writer prepared a rejoinder to the authors of these pamphlets, and took this to The American Medical Association to offer instead of the presentation and plan which had already been in the hands of the members for many months. The President of The Association had, also, by resolution, been recommended to consider the matter in his annual address. The President did discuss the subject in his address, read at the first session of the meeting in Chicago, and concluded with the recommendation that it be referred to a special committee. This recommendation, with others in the President’s address, was referred to a committee of seven. Dr. H. C. Wood mentioned to The Association that the subject of the Phar- macopoeia was to come up on the following day at 10 o’clock, and moved that, in order not to have “ to make two bites at a cherry,” the committee be directed to report upon this subject at that time, and his motion was carried. This action appeared as though Dr. Wood and The Association desired that the committee should make up its judgment upon the subject before hearing what might be said at the hour appointed for the hearing. Accordingly, at the hour appointed on the following day, the committee report—and not the paper appointed for the hour—was first called for, and the commit- tee reported that it was inexpedient at the present time to take any action in the premises. Some time was occupied in remarks upon the report and in laying it upon the table, and then this writer was called upon to present his subject. He stated that when at the last meeting of The Association he was ordered to present the subject, at this time, no limit was given him as to the time at his disposal, and that only within a few days, on receiving the printed pro- gram of this meeting, did he know that he would be limited to an hour. And now some twenty minutes of that hour had been taken for other business. Very much had been published on the subject which seemed to need a rejoinder, and in making this up for The Association the manuscript had so grown that it could not be read in less than two hours. If the forty minutes now available was the measure of The Association’s interest in the subject, it might be well to drop it altogether rather than hear a part of what could not be finished. The writer stated that he did not appear there by favor of The Association at all, but simply by its direction to do a specific thing, and was ready to do it or not as The Association might now re»direct, but would rather not undertake to half do it. He was, however, then directed to take the stand, and read from his manuscript for about forty minutes. It was then moved that he should go on and finish his paper, but this he asked permission not