^mjSy'i9warm'}     Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  349 
APRIL  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday,  April  19,  at  3  o'clock,  Henry  C. 
Blair  presiding. 
Mr.  Edgar  F.  Heffner,  of  Lock  Haven,  Pa.,  secretary  of  the 
Pennsylvania  State  Pharmaceutical  Association,  presented  a  paper 
calling  attention  to  the  work  of  that  Association  and  setting  forth 
some  of  its  present  aims,  particularly  along  legislative  lines,  which 
will  be  published  in  a  later  number  of  this  Journal.  In  introducing 
Mr.  Heffner  the  chairman  spoke  of  the  efficiency  of  his  work  as 
secretary  of  the  Association  and  remarked  upon  the  promptness 
with  which  the  annual  volume  of  Proceedings  had  appeared. 
The  paper  elicited  a  prolonged  discussion  which  centred  mainly 
on  the, proposed  State  Antinarcotic  Law,  a  subject  made  doubly 
interesting  by  reason  of  the  crusade  being  waged  at  present  in 
Philadelphia  by  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board  for  the 
eradication  of  the  cocaine  evil.  Among  those  participating  in  the 
discussion  were  Wm.  E.  Lee,  chairman  of  the  Pa.  Ph.  A.  Member- 
ship Committee,  L.  L.  Walton,  chairman  of  the  Committee  appointed 
by  the  Association  to  draft  a  model  Antinarcotic  Law,  Henry 
Kraemer,  Theodore  Campbell,  a  member  of  the  Pennsylvania  State 
Legislature,  Otto  W.  Osterlund,  C.  B.  Lowe,  C.  A.  Weidemann, 
E.  M.  Boring,  and  Messrs.  Heffner  and  Blair. 
Mr.  Walton  stated  that  his  committee  had  not  as  yet  drafted  the 
proposed  law,  as  they  had  been  waiting  for  Congress  to  frame  a 
national  law  with  the  object  of  making  the  Pennsylvania  State  Law 
conform  to  it.  He  said  that  they  had  asked  the  opinions  of  drug- 
gists in  all  parts  of  the  State  as  to  the  character  of  such  a  law,  and 
he  then  read  extracts  from  the  acts  of  the  following  states :  Massa- 
chusetts, Virginia,  New  Jersey,  Michigan,  Florida,  Idaho,  Alabama, 
Wyoming  and  Wisconsin.  According  to  The  Apothecary  (April, 
1910,  p.  14)  the  provisions  of  the  new  Massachusetts  Narcotics  Law, 
as  finally  enacted,  are  as  follows : 
Under  this  law  it  is  now  unlawful  for  any  person  to  sell,  furnish,  give 
away  or  deliver  any  opium,  morphine,  heroin,  codeine,  or  preparations  thereof, 
or  any  salt  or  compound  of  the  foregoing  substances,  except  upon  the  written 
prescription  or  order  of  a  lawfully  authorized  practitioner  of  medicine,  den- 
tistry or  veterinary  medicine,  which  prescription  must  bear  the  name  of  the 
person  giving  it;  provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply 
to  sales  made  by  any  manufacturer,  wholesale  or  retail  druggist,  to  other 
