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In the State of Pennsylvania, where these eminent pharmacists 

 and idealists happen to be largely, they are trying to rule that 

 under our State law, which is precisely in the language of the 

 Federal law, the articles which deviate from the U. S. P. or the 

 N. F. must be designated, in language which calls attention in an 

 objectionable way to that diflference; in other words, they want to 

 provide that articles sold under names which occur in the N. F — 

 and, of course, you know that a very large number of com- 

 pounds that are commonly sold are found in that volume — 

 that where they differ it must be stated on the label in these 

 words: "This article differs from the National Formulary by 

 lo Per Cent.," less or more, as the case may be, so that there 

 is a tendency, and this will be impressed upon the Congress sooner 

 or later, to amend the National Pure Food and Drugs Law to pre- 

 vent any possible deviation from the formularies in strength of 

 articles put up under the formularies and recognized in this work. 



The suggestion in the report with reference to the United States 

 Pharmacopoeia are excellent, but there is no suggestion, as I gather 

 from the reading of the report, with regard to the other matter at 

 all, and I believe that requires more attention. I do not know 

 how much influence we would have, because I want to say, in 

 going along, that unfortunately another idea has been very sedu- 

 ously cultivated in the literature which appears in some of the 

 journals which some of us have to read, and that is, whatever there 

 may be of virtue and integrity and honesty in the retail pharma- 

 cists, there is very little worth speaking of in the wholesale manu- 

 facturer. He is to be suspected of manipulating things and we 

 must take some measures to stop it. We all know that is not true, 

 we all know there is no foundation for it, and yet there is this pres- 

 sure for legislation, and the making of regulations under this legis- 

 lation, which needs attention, and which I think, in connection 

 with a report like this, it is well for me at least to say this much 

 about it. I feel that the committee has made excellent suggestions, 

 and I feel that the report will be received by the Committee on 

 Revision, the present members and those who may be elected, with 

 the respect which it deserves coming from this body, and I am 

 sorry if it is so — I am not sure that it is so' — that this body is not 

 legally qualified to elect delegates to the convention which is to 

 elect the members of the Committee on Revision. Professor Rem-. 



