470  Status  of  American  Pharmacy.  {^oclotofi™' 
plants  and  in  the  blood  of  live  animals,  but  his  processes  are  lighted 
by  the  lamp  of  science,  and  instead  of  working  with  a  few  ounces 
he  operates  with  quantities  of  thousands  of  pounds.  The  future  of 
pharmaceutical  manufactures  is  bright,  for  the  standards  are  right, 
which  is  largely  due  to  the  men  of  this  Association  and  their  like. 
STATUS  AND  LANDMARKS  OF  AMERICAN  PHARMACY 
AND  THE  DEVELOPMENT  OF  PHARMACY  DURING 
FIFTY  YEARS.1 
By  J.  L.  LBMBERGER,  Ph.M. 
Reminiscences  call  up  things,  events  and  persons  of  yesterday, 
the  recalling  of  which  will  serve  my  purpose  in  responding  to  the 
duty  assigned  me  as  a  help  to  the  proper  celebration  of  this  fiftieth 
anniversary. 
Our  early  recollection  of  this  Association,  as  a  young  man,  comes 
to  us  with  feelings  akin  to  an  inspiration.  I  remember  the  impres- 
sion made  upon  me  that  I  was  about  to  become  associated  with  a 
great  body;  and  when  I  gazed  upon  what  was  then  the  personnel 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  I  soon  discovered,  on 
coming  into  closer  fellowship,  that  it  was  a  privilege  for  a  young 
man  to  meet  and  associate  with  the  men  that  composed  that  body 
—men  that  made  American  pharmacy  what  it  then  was  and 
moulded  influences  which  have  continued  to  develop  and  perpet- 
uate the  art  as  we  find  it  to-day ;  men  who  with  prophetic  vision  at 
their  initial  meeting  seemed  to  foresee  the  great  necessity  of  sale- 
guarding  the  nation  against  the  admission  of  drugs  of  only  full 
standard  purity,  who  in  this  act  recognized  that  quality  and  not 
quantity  for  value  was  the  safe  method,  and  that  integrity  and  skill, 
if  rightly  applied,  would  commend  their  acts  and  would  win  to  their 
confidence  and  fellowship  the  colleges  of  medicine  and  pharmacy, 
and  the  most  able  druggists  and  chemists  of  the  land ; — these  men 
were  inspired  by  no  selfish,  but  rather  the  higher  philanthropic 
motives.  The  men  of  that  association  were  they  who  in  their  day 
made  and  revised  our  pharmacopoeias  and  constructed  our  formu- 
1  Read  at  the  Special  Jubilee  Session  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, September  n,  1902. 
