Editorial. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      Feb.,  1881. 
'Of  Paiia,  Vice-Presidents  ;  Frank  Fleury  of  Springfield,  Secretary  ;  Henry 
Smith  of  Decatur,  Treasurer,  and  A.  G.  Vogeler  of  Chicago,  J.  J.  Schubert 
•of  Kankalvee  and  Louis  van  Patten  of  St.  Charles,  Executive  Committee. 
J)uring  the  evening  Governor  Culloni  addressed  the  meeting,  and  the 
.association  then  proceeded  to  discuss  the  draft  of  a  pharmacy  law,  which 
was  adopted  on  the  following  day.  A  committee  was  appointed  to  present 
the  bill  to  the  Legislature,  and  ten  members  were  elected  for  presentation 
to  the  Governor  for  appointment  on  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy,  in  case 
^the  proposed  law  be  passed. 
After  the  appointment  of  various  committees,  other  routine  business  was 
.attended  to,  and  the  association  finally  adjourned  to  meet  again  at  Peoria 
'On  the  second  Tuesday  of  November  next,  at  10  o'clock  P.M. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT. 
Phahmacists  and  Physicians— Their  Relations.  —  We  are  much 
ipleased  that  the  discussion  of  this  subject  is  not  solely  left  to  those  who 
consider  themselves  faultless,  who  are  quick  in  blaming  upon  an  entire 
profession  what,  perhaps,  few  are  guilty  of,  and  who,  without  assuming  any 
.resjionsibility  themselves,  insist  that  others  shall  change  established  usages. 
The  report,  which  we  publish  in  another  place,  of  a  conference  between 
•committees  of  tlie  Philadelphia  County  Medical  Society  and  College  of 
Pharmac}^,  is  an  evidence  of  this,  and  the  results  reached  cannot  fail  of 
being  duly  appreciated  by  all  concerned. 
A  number  of  medical  journals  have  likewise  discussed  these  matters  dis- 
23assionately,  and  it  gives  us  pleasure  to  l)e  able  to  select  from  them  a  few 
.abstracts  of  editorials  which  will  show  our  readers  that  the  intelligent  and 
upright  physician  does  not  regard  tlie  intelligent  and  upright  pharmacist 
as  his  enemy,  but  as  his  valuable  co-worker.  Before  quoting  our  cotempo- 
Taries,  however,  we  desire  to  enlist  the  aid  of  our  readers  in  ascertaining 
where,  as  we  have  been  informed  by  a  correspondent  about  a  year  ago,  in 
ithis  State,  a  legal  decision  was  rendered,  probably  about  nine  or  ten  years 
ago,  that  a  prescription  was  the  property  of  the  patient  who  paid  for  it, 
-and  had  the  right  to  do  what  he  pleased  with  it ;  that  if  the  prescription 
was  not  to  be  renewed,  the  physician  should  state  so  upon  it  in  writing, 
that  it  then  became  a  contract  between  the  two  and  the  apothecary  must 
not  violate  it  for  them.  This  expresses,  in  the  main,  the  position  which 
we  have  held  in  this  controversy,  but  we  have  not  been  able  to  ascertain, 
iby  private  inquiries,  either  the  place  or  the  nature  of  the  case  that  led  to 
(the  judicial  oi^inion  quoted. 
On  the  same  subject,  the  "American  Specialist"  for  January,  has  the 
following : 
If  doctors  wish  to  prevent  the  duplication  of  prescriptions,  it  is  the 
patients  they  should  talk  to,  and  not  the  pharmacists.  If  the  former  are  of 
the  proi^er  degree  of  intelligence,  and  have  the  confidence  in  their  physi- 
i^ians  which  they  should  have,  they  will  not  evade  many  fees  or  spend  at 
