260  Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations.  {^'"May^iS?™' 
the  business  appertaining  to  tlie  college.  The  room  is  33  feet  long  and 
comniunicates  also  with  the  hallway  of  the  college  building,  from  which 
access  w^ill  be  had  to  it. 
It  will  be  observed  that  with  the  completion  of  the  extension  and  altera- 
tions, the  members  of  the  College,  its  officers,  the  students  and  all  who 
may  have  business  to  transact  with  either  the  College  or  Journal  will 
enjoy  greater  facilities  than  heretofore.  The  cost  of  these  changes  will 
probably  exceed  f 20,000,  in  which  sum  the  procuring  of  new  apparatus  is 
not  included,  such  as  are  obtained  every  year  by  the  professors  and  the 
College  for  illustrating  the  lectures. 
The  Physicians  and  Pharmacists  of  Washington,  D.  C. — For  a 
long  number  of  years  the  relations  existing  between  the  professions  of  med- 
icine and  pharmacy  in  this  city  have  been  of  the  most  amicable  sort. 
Whenever  the  usual  questions  of  contention  have  agitated  the  physicians 
and  i:»harmacists  elsewhere,  here  we  have  flattered  ourselves  that  the  entente 
cordiale  which  had  so  long  prevailed  could  not  be  broken  by  any  such  dis- 
tracting elements.  In  all  of  our  efforts  to  promote  pharmacy  we  have,  when- 
ever needed,  had  the  aid  and  encouragement  of  the  medical  profession  to 
the  fullest  extent,  and,  I  believe,  have  at  all  times  enjoyed  their  confidence,, 
and,  in  turn,  they  have  certainly  had  our  fullest  confidence  and  com- 
manded our  highest  respect.  Notwithstanding  all  this,  as  it  shall  pres- 
ently appear,  we  were  destined  to  be  the  victims  of  the  same  disturbing 
cause  that  has  brought  trouble  to  the  medico-pharmacal  hearth-stone  in 
other  cities. 
A  month  ago  the  Medical  Association  addressed  a  request  to  the  National 
College  of  Pharmacy  asking  the  appointment  of  a  committee  to  confer  with 
a  like  committee  on  their  jmrton  some  irregularities  said  to  be  practiced  by 
some  of  the  druggists  of  the  city.  The  committee  was  aj)pointed  and  a 
conference  had,  when  it  was  disclosed  that  the  irregularity  complained  of 
was  the  habit  of  some  pharmacists,  whose  names  were  not  given,  of  pre- 
scribing for  the  sick.  An  informal  discussion  of  the  subject  did  not  result 
in  any  method  being  adopted  to  cure  the  evil,  so  the  joint  committee 
adjourned  without  action.  The  committee  representing  the  Medical  Asso- 
ciation made  their  report  of  non-action  to  that  body,  whereupon  that  com- 
mittee was  discharged  and  a  new  one  appointed,  consisting  of  Drs.  Pren- 
tiss, Walsh  and  Magruder,  three  gentlemen  eminently  qualified  to  dis- 
charge the  duties  imposed  upon  them.  Messrs.  Ferguson,  Becker,  Duckett, 
Dowling  and  Thompson  were  the  committee  on  the  part  of  the  College, 
and  had  not  been  changed  from  the  first.  At  the  request  of  the  Medical 
Committee  a  second  conference  was  held,  when  the  subjects  of  pharmacists 
prescribing  and  phj^sicians  dispensing  medicines  and  the  renewal  of  i^re- 
scriptions  were  fully,  fairly  and  frankly  considered  and  discussed  in  all 
their  phases. 
The  first  subject  was  readily  disposed  of ;  the  last  one  was  not  so  easy  to 
determine,  the  ditficulty  appearing  to  arise  entirely  from  the  different 
stand-points — medicine  and  pharmacy — the  subject  was  viewed  from. 
The  physician  claimed  unlimited  control  over  the  prescription  as  his  pro- 
perty, over  which  the  pharmacist  had  no  right  or  power  except  as  the 
