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APRIL  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  regular  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday  afternoon,  April  21st,  with  Prof. 
Joseph  P.  Remington  in  the  chair. 
Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  of.  the  University  of  Illinois,  addressed 
the  meeting  on  the  subject  of  improving  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
and  medicine  in  the  United  States.  The  address  was  largely  de- 
voted to  a  consideration  of  that  class  of  proprietary  medicines  for 
which  false  claims  are  made,  both  to  physicians  and  to  the. public. 
The  methods  of  advertising  these  preparations  were  described,  and 
the  statement  was  made  that  if  the  journals  published  to  exploit 
them  were  not  allowed  second-class  postal  rates,  these  journals  could 
not  exist.  Professor  Hallberg  said  that  the  work  of  the  Council 
on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
had  entirely  changed  the  attitude  of  the  medical  profession  toward 
secret  remedies.  He  said  that  the  Council  had  been  at  work  for 
about  three  years,  and  had  found  some  300  proprietary  compounds 
and  preparations  that  were  true  in  name  and  composition,  and  in 
this  connection  said  that  the  Council  had  not  heretofore  undertaken 
to  investigate  the  therapeutic  qualities  of  these  preparations,  and, 
therefore,  it  should  be  understood  that  they  do  not  recommend 
them  on  the  basis  of  their  therapeutic  properties. 
Professor  Hallberg  also  spoke  of  the  splendid  results  which  are 
attending  the  joint  meetings  of  physicians  and  pharmacists  in  vari- 
ous parts  of  the  country,  one  of  them  being  an  increase  in  the  use 
of  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  preparations.  The  trend  of  the  movement  is, 
however,  as  he  sees  it,  not  against  manufacturing  pharmacists,  but 
against  the  manufacturers  of  secret  preparations  or  those  for  which 
untruthful  claims  are  made. 
The  address  was  discussed  by  Dr.  Albert  M.  Eaton,  president  of 
the  Philadelphia  County  Medical  Society;  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood,  Jr.;  Dr. 
C  B.  Lowe,  H.  K.  Mulford,  W.  L.  Cliffe,  William  Mclntyre,  M.  I. 
Wilbert,  Prof.  I.V.  S.  Stanislaus,  and  the  chairman.  Dr.  Eaton  stated 
that  all  of  the  scientific  physicians  in  Philadelphia  are  in  harmony 
with  the  movement  to  bring  physicians  and  pharmacists  together. 
He  said  that  the  matter  had  been  taken  up  by  several  of  the 
branches  of  the  society,  and  that  it  would  be  considered  by  every 
branch  not  only  next  year,  but  every  year  until  it  is  satisfactorily 
