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American  Medical  Association. 
(  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      August,  1908. 
given  considerable  attention.  President  Bryant,  in  his  farewell  ad- 
dress to  the  House  of  Delegates,  frankly  discussed  a  number  of 
the  abuses  that  have  been  shown  to  exist.  He  warmly  commended 
the  work  so  far  accomplished  by  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chem- 
istry, and  condemned,  in  unmistakable  terms,  the  attempts  that  have 
been  made  to  throw  discredit  on  the  work  or  its  object. 
Dr.  J.N.  McCormack,  in  his  report  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Organization,  referred  at  some  length  to  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  New  York,  last  September, 
and  to  the  opposition  that  had  been  aroused  by  his  address  to  that 
body.  He  expressed  the  belief  that  all  the  better  class  of  pharma- 
cists were  willing  and  anxious  to  conduct  their  business  with  an 
honest  regard  for  the  public  welfare,  and  that  these  men  should 
receive  the  co-operation  and  support  of  medical  practitioners.  He 
also  expressed  the  belief  that  the  creation  of  a  strong  conference 
committee,  representing  the  American  Medical  Association  and  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  could  do  much  to  eliminate 
misunderstandings  and  to  nullify  the  repeated  misstatements  that 
are  now  being  made  by  interested  parties. 
At  a  subsequent  meeting  of  the  House  of  Delegates,  Dr.  Lewis 
S.  McMurtry  offered  the  following  resolution: 
"Resolved,  that  in  accordance  with  the  recommendation  of  the 
Committee  on  Organization,  the  President  is  requested  to  appoint  a 
committee  of  three  members  to  confer  with  a  like  committee  to  be 
appointed  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  regard 
to  drug  reforms,  a  return  to  scientific  prescription  writing  and  other 
matters  of  material  interest  to  these  two  associations." 
On  motion  of  Dr.  Philip  Mills  Jones,  of  California,  this  resolution 
was  adopted  and  the  American  Medical  Association  placed  on  record 
as  being  willing  and  anxious  to  foster  truth  and  honesty  in  matters 
relating  to  pharmacy. 
The  sessions  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics 
were  of  more  than  ordinary  interest  to  members  of  the  pharma- 
ceutical profession.  In  common  with  all  of  the  other  sections,  the 
meetings  were  unusually  well  attended  and  the  readers  of  papers, 
generally,  had  the  satisfaction  of  having  their  contributions  liberally 
discussed. 
The  address  of  the  Chairman  was  an  illuminating  discourse  on 
