Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ... REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. REPORT ON THE PROGRESS OF PHARMACY. Submitting this report in behalf of the Committee on the Progress of Pharmacy, the Chairman desires to state that a slight change has been effected in its arrangement, consisting in the consolidation of Analytical Chemistry and Chemistry proper. The principal reason for so doing is, that it will simplify the arrangement and bring to notice all that is new in regard to a chemical in the most condensed form. Moreover, the analytical results and reactions of chemicals bear such intimate relation to their general characters, that their separate consideration is scarcely justified in a report intended chiefly for the instruction of pharmacists. The past twelve months have been characterized by remarkable activity, and consequent progress in the science of Pharmacy. Toward this end the Universal Exposition at Paris has undoubtedly in a great measure given the incentive. The United States, although not as well represented at the Exposition as might be expected, yet may compare favorably, in the number of its representatives in the class of Chemistry and Pharmacy, with other countries, when the distance, inconvenience of transportation, and the comparative infancy of our institutions is taken into consideration. Since our last meeting Part II. of the new Russian Pharmacopoeia has been issued, and is spoken of in high terms as a pharmaceutic standard. The Codex Medicamentarius (Pharmacopee Fran(aise) has also made its appearance. In contents it far excels any of its contemporaries, containing no less than 784 pages, in royal octavo form. Competent critics do not speak in the most favorable terms of its value as a pharmaceutic standard, as it contains a large number of old and obsolete formulae; it contains, ..