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THE  AMERICAN  THERAPEUTIC  SOCIETY. 
The  ninth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Therapeutic  Society, 
which  was  held  in  Philadelphia,  May  /th  to  9th  inclusive,  was  of 
more  than  ordinary  interest  to  the  pharmacists  of  this  country,  in 
that  matters  pharmaceutic  were  given  an  unusual  amount  of 
consideration. 
One  of  the  more  interesting  sessions  of  the  Society  was  devoted 
to  a  joint  meeting  with  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  members  of  the  latter  organization, 
on  invitation,  attended  all  of  the  several  sessions  of  the  Therapeutic 
Society  and  took  an  active  interest  on  at  least  several  different 
occasions. 
On  the  afternoon  of  the  first  day,  a  symposium  on  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia  and  the  National  Formulary  was  contributed 
to  by  :  Dr.  James  M.  Anders,  who  read  a  paper,  entitled  "  The  Phar- 
macopoeia from  the  Physician's  Standpoint ;"  -Mr.  H.  C.  Blair,  Ph.G., 
who  read  a  paper  on  "The  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  National 
Formulary  as  Standards  for  Physicians  and  Pharmacists,"  and  Mr. 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  who  discussed  some  of  the  problems  bearing  on  "The 
Preparations  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  National 
Formulary." 
At  the  joint  meeting  of  the  American  Therapeutic  Society  with 
the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, an  exhaustive  and  very  interesting  paper,  by  Dr.  Chas.  E.  de  M. 
Sajous,  on  "  The  Auto-Protective  Resources  of  the  Body:  a  New 
Foundation  for  Scientific  Therapeutics,"  was  read.  This  interesting 
communication  embodied  suggestions  for  investigations  along  en- 
tirely new  lines,  and  in  it  the  author  advances  suggestions  that  may 
lead  to  the  scientific  or  rational  use  of  a  number  of  remedies  that 
are  now  used  empirically.  This  communication  was  followed  by  a 
paper  by  Prof.  Jos.  P.  Remington  on  "  The  United  States  Pharma- 
copoeia, a  Therapeutic  Standard,"  in  the  course  of  which  the  author 
strongly  urged  the  foundation  of  a  Therapeutic  Laboratory,  to  be 
devoted  to  the  trying  out  or  proving  of  the  claims  made  in  connec- 
tion with  either  official  or  new  remedies. 
This  suggestion  was  referred  to  the  Council  of  the  American 
Therapeutic  Society,  with  a  favorable  recommendation  for  their 
further  consideration. 
