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Pharmaceutical  Association. 
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phur  or  lemon-yellow  color  than  the  other.  The  inner  bracts  of  the  involucre 
are  nearly  all  furnished  with  a  peculiar  corniculate  appendage,  half  a  line  or 
so  below  the  whitish  tip,  and  the  outer  ligules  of  the  head  are  somewhat 
purplish  on  the  external  surface.  A  specimen  of  the  T.  erythrosperma  pre- 
sents a  much  more  matted,  or  interlaced  appearance  in  its  growth  than  the 
taller  species.  As  the  T.  officinale  '  Weber  '  is  undoubtedly  an  introduced  plant 
from  Europe,  it  is  just  possible  that  the  T.  erythrosperma  is  a  native  of  America. 
Appended  to  the  paper  was  a  list  of  275  plants,  most  of  which  were  found  in 
bloom.  The  next  paper  was  "On  the  Presence  of  Corrosiue  Sublimate  in 
Calomel,"  by  Lyman  F.  Kebler.    It  is  printed  in  full  on  page  338  of  this  issue. 
In  reply  to  the  query:  Should  drug  store  experience  in  pharmaceutical  edu- 
cation precede  or  follow  college  training  ?  Theodore  Campbell  presented  a  paper 
in  which  he  earnestly  urged  every  druggist  to  see  that  his  clerks  have  not  less 
than  one  year  of  experience  in  the  store  before  attending  lectures  at  a  college 
of  pharmacy.  The  author  showed  that  a  clerk  who  has  had  such  experience 
will  be  better  prepared  to  receive  the  college  instruction,  and  that  drug  store 
training  previous  to  attendance  at  college  qualifies  a  person  to  open  a  store  and 
conduct  the  business  in  all  its  phases  immediately  after  graduation  from  a  college. 
William  B.  Thompson  contributed  a  paper  entitled  "A  Pertinent  Query," 
which  was,  in  effect,  a  presentation  and  discussion  of  the  question  as  to  whether 
the  practice  of  pharmacy  may  rightly  be  regarded  as  a  profession.  His  argu- 
ments were  convincing,  and  left  little  doubt  that  he  who  fills  the  various 
requirements  of  this  calling  is  justly  entitled  to  a  professional  standing. 
Another  paper  by  Mr.  Thompson  was  on  the  subject  of  "  Chlorinated  Lime 
in  Zinc  Containers."  In  this  he  stated  that  the  method  of  packing  chlorinated 
lime  in  cans  made  of  sheet  zinc  had  been  employed  a  sufficient  length  of  time 
to  thoroughly  test  its  merits.  He  observed  that  the  article  stored  in  this  man- 
ner preserved  its  condition  unimpaired  for  a  reasonable  period. 
Wm.  Mclntire  suggested  that  the  package  be  labelled  with  the  date  of  pack- 
ing and  the  strength  of  the  substance  at  that  time. 
The  query:  should  druggists  study  medicine  f  was  answered  in  the  affirma- 
tive by  W.  H.  Reed.  The  ethical  relations  of  the  professions  of  pharmacy  and 
medicine  as  such,  and  as  they  were  formerly  practiced,  were  first  defined  by  the 
author.  He  then  considered  the  complications  of  the  two  classes  as  they  now 
exist,  and  favored  the  adoption  by  druggists  of  measures  adapted  to  the  changed 
conditions  brought  about  by  modern  business  innovations. 
He  said  that  druggists  were  protected  by  legal  enactments  only  in  the  dis- 
pensing of  poisons  and  compounding  of  prescriptions  ;  and  he  believed  that 
not  more  than  one-fourth  of  the  present  drug  stores  could  subsist  on  this  kind 
of  patronage  alone.  He  also  said  that  the  average  drug  store  now  without  the 
aid  of  a  physician  is  not  a  success  financially.  He,  therefore,  recommended 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  connection  with  that  of  pharmacy,  under  certain 
conditions,  both  as  a  means  of  success  and  to  meet  the  demands  of  certain 
classes  of  patrons,  namely,  those  affected  with  disorders  of  a  transient  nature, 
and  those  with  limited  means. 
The  writer  furthermore  believed  that  where  he  is  legally  qualified,  the  drug- 
gist is  as  morally  justified  in  practicing  medicine  in  connection  with  pharmacy 
as  the  physician  is  justified  in  supplying  his  patients  with  drugs,  and  thereby 
injuring  the  business  interests  of  the  pharmacist. 
