The United States Census of 1850 was the seventh census of the United States. Conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1850, it determined the resident population of the United States to be 23,191,876. The total population included 3,204,313 slaves.
In the 1820's several American medical societies created the first edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia (U.S.P.).
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