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MINUTES  OF  THE 
Fifth  Session — Thursday  Afternoon,  Sept.  9th. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order,  President  Sargent  in  the 
Chair. 
The  minutes  of  the  Fourth  Session  were  read  and  adopted. 
Dr.  E.  K.  Squibb  offered  the  following  motion,  to  be  added  as 
a  preface  to  his  Report  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  : 
That  in  the  reference  of  his  report  on  the  Pharmacopoeia  to 
the  Publishing  Committee  for  publication  in  the  Proceedings,  the 
report  be  prefaced  by  the  distinct  statement  that  the  Association, 
in  publishing  the  report,  does  not  endorse  the  judgment  of  the 
reporter  in  his  recommendation  to  dismiss  so  many  articles. 
After  some  discussion  in  reference  to  this  note,  it  was  agreed  to. 
Dr.  Squibb  now  read  the  following  resolutions,  intended  to 
express  the  sense  of  this  meeting  in  reference  to  the  subject  of 
legislation  for  Pharmacy  : 
1.  Resolved, That  the  draft  of  a  law  to  regulate  the  practice  of  Fbarmacy, 
proposed  by  the  Committee  of  the  Association  appointed  for  that  pur- 
pose, be  accepted  and  published  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Association, 
as  being  one  method  whereby  the  objects  of  this  body  in  regard  to  that 
subject  might  be  attempted,  and  that  as  a  method  which  embraces  many 
useful  details,  arranged  with  great  care  and  labor,  it  is  recorded  and  pub- 
lished as  well  adapted  to  be  useful  to  the  Legislatures  of  the  different 
States  of  the  Union  whenever  they  may  see  fit  to  respond  to  the  earnest 
desire  and  call  of  this  Association  and  of  the  community  at  large  for 
enactments  upon  this  subject. 
2.  Resolved,  That  the  difficulties  of  constructing  a  form  of  a  law  proper 
to  be  endorsed  and  recommended  by  this  Association  for  general  applica- 
tion in  all  the  States,  are  such  that  we  must  be  satisfied  with  enuncia- 
ting the  broad  principles  which  in  our  judgment  should  direct  ail  legisla- 
tion upon  this  important  subject. 
3.  Resolved, That  we  see  with  alarm  and  regret  the  rapid'increase  in  the 
number  of  accidents  which  occur  from  mistakes  and  mismanagement  in 
dispensing  medicinal  substances,  and  that  we  earnestly  desire  to  see  these 
casualities  checked  and  controlled. 
4.  Resolved,  That  we  regard  the  ignorance  and  irresponsibility  of  many 
who  engage  in  the  practice  of  Pharmacy  without  proper  qualification  as 
the  principal  cause  of  such  casualities. 
5.  Resolved,  That  a  proper  degree  of  education  and  qualification  should 
be  secured  by  law,  and  that  all  proper  measures  for  educating  and  quali- 
fying persons  for  duties  so  important  should  receive  more  encouragement 
and  protection  from  the  Law  than  they  have  hitherto  done. 
