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as you please, you can not escape them. The scales have been removed 

 from your eyes ; you have looked and found wisdom, therein lies your 

 responsibility. 



"Now that I have placed your opportunities before you and your 

 responsibilities upon you, I will attempt to show you that the greatest 

 need of pharmacy to-day is the better and more complete finishing of 

 the pharmacist. 



"If I were called upon to recite the composition of the mixture which 

 constitutes the body pharmacy, I would sav that it is composed of : 

 schools, permanent literature, correct literature, associations and per- 

 sons. If this is its true composition, then the personnel of pharmacy 

 is a very important constituent; a constituent that should be of proper 

 quality and suitable finish. It is to this finish that I wish to call your 

 attention during a few moments. 



"I believe it may be safely assumed that, while there may be other 

 persons in this world of ours who have but two well defined sides, the 

 pharmacist is and will ever be a three-sided structure. This must be 

 accepted by all of us as an incontestable fact. If it has not been so 

 accepted by each one of you. I do not hesitate to tell you that you are 

 a little backward in accepting the truth. Make a cross section of the 

 pharmacist and you will discover a well defined triangle, each of its 

 planes bearing hard upon the other. These three sides may be accu- 

 rately and definitely named the pharmaceutical, the commercial and 

 the human. 



"It must be conceded that the professional side has had g'ood and 

 sufficient attention; certainly, quite enough to meet the real demands 

 of the times and more than enough to make the other sides appear 

 disadvantageously. 



"Who of you .after selecting a sound and promising crystal, with 

 three well defined surfaces, all to be equally exposed, would be satis- 

 fied with polishing one side only. There may be different colorings 

 and a variety of lines upon the respective planes, but the polish and 

 finish on all sides must be uniform, else th^ unfinished sides must be 

 hidden. The commercial and the human side of the pharmacist can not 

 possibly be hidden, consequently, these must be made as attractive, as 

 acceptable and as helpful as the others. 



"I will not attempt to dwell upon the possibilities of the commercial 

 side ; 'that's another story.' Yet, it is a most interesting story. There 



