44 president's address — (sub)-section b. 



1 am aware that these three headings do not entirely or logically 

 define what a Pharmacist is or omght to be, but it is sufficiently 

 broad and quite sufficient for my purpose. 



The question now arises, Is this to' be the dompass of usefulness 

 of the Pharmacist to the community 1 Is his work to be entirely 

 confined to the infinite details of preparing pharmaceuticals and 

 of dispensing them ? The preparing of pharmaceuticals is, by the 

 way, with ever-increasing rapidity slipping out of his hands. There 

 seems to me, then, no scope for any reasonably ambitious man who 

 embraces pharmacy as a profession, unless he can find some 

 way to extend his knowledge and his usefulness to the community 

 in which he finds himself. Along the line of his early training 

 in what direction can he expand? May he not make himself in- 

 creasingly useful to the medical profession by acquiring a working 

 knowledge of the microscope, the preparation of microscopic stains, 

 solutions for various clinical examinations 1 Are not such sub- 

 jects as urine examination, dairy chemistry, food analysis, muni- 

 cipal chemistry, agricultural and industrial chemistry and 

 toxicology, all subjects peculiarly within the scope of the trained 

 Professional Pharmacist. These are some of the activities to 

 which the ambitious Pharmaicist may direct his attention and make 

 his life fuller and more useful. I would commend to your 

 thought, and if possible tO' your activities in the various States 

 of this great Commonwealth, the potential value of Pharmacists 

 developed along some such lines. 



None of the various subjects I have indicated offer any great 

 difficulty to' enable students to acquire the necessary knowledge. 

 Some outside stimulus and encouragement, the establishment of 

 classes, popular and technical lectures, and demonstrations, and 

 above all. a supreme enthusiasm in his work in imparting his 

 knowledge to the pupils on the part of the teachers, may do 

 much. 



