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of the trade, that, were the Association to melt away to-morrow, he could never forget 
them. , _ . 
The meeting was then addressed by Messrs. Stott, Shaw, and Farr upon matters ot 
trade interest, after which Mr. Jessop proposed the health of the President, when the 
meeting terminated. 
HULL CHEMISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Annual Dinner of the Association was held at the Crossley’s Hotel, on Thursday, 
the 25th of November, 1869 ; Mr. Anthony Smith in the chair (in the unavoidable 
absence of the President, Mr. Baynes), when a room full of chemists met and spent a 
very pleasant evening. 
After the usual loyal and other toasts, the Honorary Secretary (Mr. Bell) and others 
pleaded for the better and more general support of the Benevolent Fund of the Pharma¬ 
ceutical Society, observing that as the Fund was accessible to every member of the trade, 
and that any chemist, who through ill-health or other unforeseen circumstances, might 
become the recipient of it, it was the duty of every chemist when in health and pro¬ 
sperity to remember, in a substantial manner, that all were not equally fortunate, and 
subscribe something every year, be it ever so little, to make this Fund a source of pride 
to those whose hearts are large enough to support it, and a comfort to those who needed 
its assistance. 
MANCHESTER CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS’ ASSOCIATION. 
The Second Monthly Meeting of the session was held in the Memorial Hall, Albert 
Square, on Friday, December 3rd, Mr. Councillor Brown, Vice-President, in the chair. 
One new member and four associates having been elected, Mr. Hampson read the 
following paper on “ The Condition and Prospects of Pharmacy in its Relation to the 
Medical Profession”:— 
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—The unquestionably supreme importance to us of 
the subject I have chosen for my paper, is, I hope, a sufficient reason and excuse for my 
addressing you upon it. Our success as pharmaceutists, and all that gives our trade 
the odour of a profession distinguishing it from other trades, is almost wholly circum¬ 
scribed by, and dependent upon, medical men, and the relationship we bear to them, 
and we cannot hope to elevate British pharmacy to the dignity of anything approaching 
a profession, or raise it to the position we wish, unless our connection with the medical 
profession be very much enlarged and improved. 
From their kindred nature, under favourable circumstances, medicine and pharmacy 
ought ever to be united in friendly co-operation, and though pharmacy is subordinate to 
medicine, it must continue to be its most constant and faithful handmaid, whilst disease 
is combated and health restored by means of the materia medica. We have need only 
to look at the sad numeric page periodically furnished by the registrar-general, or note 
the vast amount of disease always present, to be convinced that, notwithstanding the 
spread and application of increased sanitary knowledge, the day is far distant when 
doctors and pharmaceutists will have become things of the past. . 
In the battle with disease and death we occupy a much humbler position than the 
phvsician, yet the post we fill is one of most delicate honour and trust. We are trusted 
to prepare the ammunition to be used in the conflict, and the issues depending upon 
our knowledge, skill, and exactitude, raise the post I have described as humble to one 
of the highest trust. 
This estimate of our responsibility clearly precludes the use of anything, either in 
means or material, but the best obtainable. In the compounding of medicines there 
ought to be no such thing as second quality. I need scarcely mention the word adul¬ 
teration, for we must all scout that; and in all our preparations the only safe plan is to 
aim at the undeviating standard of the Pharmacopoeia. By loyal obedience to this rule 
we shall attain a uniform result; and it will be no longer possible, within the limits of 
truth, for any medical man to affirm either in the ‘Lancet’ or any other journal, that 
the medicines prepared from one prescription, compounded at different establishments, 
all differed essentially. 
