Circular
Contributors: Hosack, David, 1769-1835
Published: 1818
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: 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]

Austin 1281.