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EDITORIAL. 
file  a  list  of  such  alleged  adulterated  articles,  and  may  obtain  a  search 
warrant,  directed  to  any  constable,  who  shall  accompany  him  (the  com 
plainant)  to  said  store  or  factory  and  bring  the  said  drugs  and  their 
owner  or  custodian  before  said  alderman  to  be  dealt  with  according  to 
law. 
The  fourth  section  provides  for  the  destruction  of  the  adulterated 
drugs  by  the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions. 
On  the  reception  of  a  copy  of  this  bill,  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  was  called  at  once.  The  proposed 
law  was  read  and  also  the  action  of  the  Drug  Exchange  in  regard  to  the 
matter.  After  a  free  and  candid  interchange  of  opinion,  the  present  bill 
was  declared  to  be  wholly  inadequate  to  remove  the  evil  aimed  at,  and  in 
practice  took  no  cognizance  of  the  greater  evil  of  incompetent  and 
uneducated  dispensers,  and  could  not  be  carried  out  without  an  amount  of 
injustice  and  oppression  at  variance  with  the  rights  of  citizens  and  the 
character  of  the  pharmaceutical  body.  As  the  action  of  the  Legislature 
on  some  bill  seemed  imminent,  a  committee  was  appointed  to  act  in  con- 
cert with  those  members  of  the  Association's  Committee,  residents  in 
Philadelphia,  to  draft  a  law,  based  on  the  yet  unperfected  law  of  said 
committee,  and  submit  it  to  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Board.  This 
joint  committee  met  and  soon  found  that  the  bill  would  prove  a  failure 
if  time  was  not  given  to  consider  it  closely,  especially  in  relation  to  the. 
education  and  qualification  of  all  apothecaries  establishing  stores  in 
future  ;  which  being  reported  to  the  Board,  it  was  deemed  both  wise  and 
respectful  to  appoint  a  committee  of  their  body  to  proceed  to  Harrisburg 
and  explain  the  whole  matter  clearly  to  the  judiciary  committeeand  to 
such  other  members  of  the  Senate  and  House  as  opportunity  offered. 
The  committee,  Professors  Parrish  and  Maisch,  were  well  received  at  the 
State  Capital  performed  their  duty,  and  returned  with  the  understanding 
that  an  effort  would  be  made  to  suspend  any  hasty  legislation  on  the  sub- 
ject until  next  session,  so  as  to  give  time  to  the  American  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association  to  perfect  its  draft  of  a  law  covering  the  whole  subject 
of  Drugs,  Poisons  and  Education. 
Why  this  persistent  effort  in  the  name  of  the  Physicians  of  Philadelphia 
should  be  pro.'ecuted  so  vigorously  to  bring  about  an  inspection  of  drugs, 
when  the  subject,  much  more  important  to  physicians,  of  the  proper 
qualifications  of  those  who  deal  in  and  dispense  them  is  wholly  over- 
looked we  cannot  divine,  but  the  whole  affair  looks  like  a  short-sighted 
effort  at  special  legislation  gotten  up  for  a  purpose  very  far  from  that 
which  appears  on  the  face  of  the  bill. 
Legislation  on  Pharmacy  in  Ohio. — The  attempt  made  in  Cincinnati 
to  induce  the  Board  of  Health  to  interfere  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy, 
noticed  at  page  83  of  last  number,  did  not  succeed.  Since  then,  we 
learn  from  a  Cincinnati  paper,  that  Dr.  W.  Clendenin,  health  officer, 
brought  forward  a  proposition  applicable  to  physicians,  midwives  and 
