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A Plea for a Federation of Pharmaceutical Organizations 



By F. J. WULLING. 

 N. Y. C. P. '87. 



// is with extreme pleasure that we publish this article by Dean Wulling 

 of the University of Minnesota^ a most distinguished alumnus of the 

 College. Dean Wulling is presidentelect if the American Pharma- 

 ceutical Association and past president of the American Conference of 

 Pharmaceutical Faculties 



In his presidential address to the cause all were created out of the coin- 

 Conference at San Francisco, the mon desire to protect and increase the 

 writer treated exhaustively the direct interests of pharmacy, from its local and 

 and collateral needs of pharmaceutical simple to its national and complex as- 

 education. As a means of unifying and pects. Our national development has 

 strengthening all the varied and related reached a point where isolation and in- 

 pharmaceutical interests with a view to dependence may still he possihle. but 

 creating better things for each, he where they are unprofitable and foolish, 

 strongly advocated a union or federa- Interdependence is a great privilege and 

 tion of all existing pharmaceutical or- advantage of which we of this higher 

 ganizations. The following, an abstract civilization may be the beneficiary if we 

 of the address relating to the federation so choose. Interdependence brings 

 idea should be read by every pharmacist strength, safety and comfort, and phar- 

 working for higher pharmacy. macy is the rightful inheritor of these, 



Pharmaceutical organizations have but it must claim them and must fit it- 



greatly grow^n in number : all are doing self to enjoy them. No organization 



more or less valuable work in their own can accomplish singly all that it should 



particular sphere or locality, but until and therefore the sum total of the re- 



they all are linked and linked in some suit of the work of all the separate or 



substantial and responsible way. the en- un-united organizations can never equal 



tire interests of pharmacy at large can- a hundred per centum. P.y their very 



not be efiiciently safeguarded and sup- nature all pharmaceutical organizations 



ported. Out of the present organiza- are related. If they would unite into 



tional heterogeneity must come some a strong federation, each preserving its 



homogeneity so far as pharmaceutical identity for its own local or particular 



purposes and so far as objects and piyposes. but merging with each other 



means of achievement are concerned, heartily and unselfishly in some wise and 



This should seem reasonable and logical consistent manner in all matters of com- 



to any who give the matter thought, for mon or national interest, all problems 



all pharmaceutical organizations have a could be solved much more easily, quick- 



communitv of genesis in their underly- ly. efficiently and wisely. Our local, 



ing practically identical purposes, be- state ^and national government might 



