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At the British Medical Association (BMA) meeting in Manchester in 1877, Spencer Wells strongly advocated urgent investigations into... 

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As the development of such weapons also requires medical skills, the British Medical Association (BMA), which represents doctors in the UK, has published a detailed assessment of the topic [10]. The overall conclusion is that the BMA is fundamentally opposed to the use of any pharmaceutical agent as a weapon , with key reasons including the need to uphold existing law unequivocally (BTWC and CWC) and the multiple, and probably insurmountable, difficulties that will prevent the use of pharmaceuticals as weapons without causing innocent deaths and disability. This conclusion is consonant with the BMA s overall guidance on the involvement of doctors in weapons development ... 

Ayliffe G.A.J., Coates D. Hofifinan P.N. (1993) Chemical Disinfection in Hospitals. London PHLS. British Medical Association (1989) Code of Practice for Sterilization of Instruments and Control of Cross Infection. London BMA (Board of Science and Education). 

British Medical Association and Pharmaceutical Press (1997) TheBritishNationalFormulary. London BMA. (This publication contains a useful section on immunological products. New editions appear at intervals.)... 

BMA Professional and Scientific Division Living with Risk, In The British Medical Association Guide. (1987). Chichester, UK J Wiley and Sons, p, 58,... 

British Medical Association. The BMA Guide to Living with Risk. London Penguin Books, 1987. 

Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions - A BMA Policy Document published by the British Medical Association in 1996. Price 5.95... 

British Medical Association, The Use of Drugs as Weapons (BMA, London, 2007)... 

The medical establishment of the time was not oblivious to Stevens activities, the founder being a layperson and the disease in question the no. 1 national epidemic. Stevens (and others selling various suspicious treatments) did not have to wait long for the BMA s (British Mescal Association s) response In 1909 it published Secret Remedies - what they contain and what they cost , a book in which Stevens Consumption Cure was denounced as quackery and the origin of the plant used called into question (19-22). 

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