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THE forty-seventh annual meeting of the British Pharma-ceutical Conference was held at Cambridge on July 26, 27, and 28, under the presidency of Mr. F. Ransom. The presidential address dealt mainly with pharmaceutical research, and Mr. Ransom indicated certain directions in which progress may be anticipated. He deplored the fact that a better organisation did not exist to bring together the two classes of investigators—pharmacists and pharmacologists. If a joint committee consisting of medical men and pharmacists were appointed with the object of organising research work, investigations might be directed in the proper channels, and better results would be obtained. The president dealt at some length with the question of the cultivation of medicinal plants, and commented upon the attempts which had been made to obtain plants of more or les., standard alkaloidal content. He suggested that a subject inviting investigation was whether the variations in the constituents of drugs were due solely to the seasons, or whether they depended upon other conditions. Referring to the subject of the standardisation of disinfectants, which has recently received much consideration, he said that neither the chemical nor bacteriological processes which had hitherto been devised seemed to be applicable in all cases, although for specific purposes comparisons of efficiency might be deduced.
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The British Pharmaceutical Conference . Nature 84, 156 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084156a0
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