28o  U.  S.  Pharmacopmal  Convention.  I^j;^™ 
The  Duties  of  t/ie  Physician  and  the  Pharmacist  to  the  Public, 
Seventh. — The  combined  efforts  of  the  physician  and  the  pharmacist 
are  required  to  protect  the  public  from  the  nostrum  maker,  the  pseudo- 
scientific  pharmacist,  the  sectarian  physician  and. drug  vendor,  and  the  two 
should  be  in  continual  alliance  to  demand  the  extermination  of  these  com- 
mercial and  mercenary  institutions. 
Eighth. — The  physician  and  the  pharmacist  should,  as  far  as  possible, 
limit  the  multiplication  of  manufactured  proprietary  compounds.  It  must 
be  regarded  as  reprehensible  to  encourage  the  use  of  these  remedies  to 
the  exclusion  of  those  which  are  official  in  the  pharmacopoeias.  It  is  also 
their  plain  duty  to  discourage  the  use  and  sale  of  all  medicines  which  lead 
to  baneful  drug  habits. 
Ninth. — The  best  interests  of  the  patient  are  undoubtedly  conserved 
by  the  custom  of  physicians  to  practice  rational  therapeutics  to  the  exclusion 
of  those  methods  which  tend  to  the  use  of  many  remedies  or  those  of 
unknown  composition;  and  the  supreme  effort  of  the  dispensing  pharmacist 
should  be  to  complete  the  circle  of  therapeutics  by  supplying  the  demands 
of  experimental  and  clinical  teaching  with  eligible  and  trustworthy  prepara- 
tions. 
In  accordance  with  a  motion  by  H.  M.  Whelpley,  the  Secre- 
tary was  instructed,  by  the  Convention,  to  furnish  the  pharma- 
ceutical and  medical  press  of  the  country,  with  the  following 
resolutions. 
By  E.  G.  Eberhardt :  Resolved,  That  this  Convention  recom- 
mend to  the  National  and  State  Food  and  Drug  Inspectors  that 
they  urge  the  purchase  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia  by  such  drug- 
gists as  they  may  find  to  be  without  them. 
By  H.  G.  Beyer:  That  every  physician  in  this  country  should 
be  requested,  by  the  various  medical  associations,  that  he  should 
keep  in  his  office  a  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  sessions  on  Tuesday,  and  on  Wednesday  morning  were 
presided  over  by  Dr.  Otto  A.  Wall,  who  showed  himself  to  be 
an  able  parliamentarian  and  dispatched  the  work  with  discretion 
and  justice.  While  there  were  a  number  of  attempts  made  on 
Wednesday  morning  by  some  of  the  members  to  have  the  President- 
elect, Dr.  Wiley,  presented  to  the  members  at  that  time,  Dr.  Wall 
showed  that  he  proposed  to  present  him  at  a  time  which  could  be 
characterized  as  the  climax  of  the  strenuous  sessions  already  held 
and  which  marked  the  termination  of  the  old  Convention  and  the 
beginning  of  the  new.    At  the  right  moment  he  introduced  the 
