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Our  Centennial. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
\     October,  1902. 
days,  are  significant  landmarks.  We  refer  especially  to  pills,  round 
in  form  or  compressed,  elixirs  and  plasters.  The  pharmacist  cannot 
lay  claim  to  invention  in  the  matter  of  sugar-coating  pills ;  it,  like 
percolation,  has  been  borrowed  to  apply  in  the  advances  and  devel- 
opment of  the  art.  We  have  always  been  clever  enough  to  know 
a  good  thing  when  we  see  it  and  how  to  apply  the  improvement  if 
it  serves  our  purpose  so  to  do. 
As  a  representative  of  the  retail  branch  of  the  profession,  and  with 
great  deference  to  the  skill  and  labor  of  wholesale  manufacturers,  I 
cannot  pass  unnoticed  the  fact  that  most  of  these  advances  have 
developed  behind  the  counter  and  in  the  laboratory  of  the  retail 
pharmacist. 
They  were  worthy  men  who  had  a  part  in  this  development,  whose 
portraiture  has  been  presented  to  you  in  retrospect,  and  who  have 
established  landmarks.  Dare  we  say  that  they  have  lived  in  vain  ? 
We  may  say  only  they  have  gone  before  and  they  still  live  in  their 
deeds,  and  though  dead  their  labor  bears  testimony  to-day.  Some 
of  us  are  a  generation  younger,  and  by  far  the  larger  membership 
to-day  comparatively  younger  by  several  decades.  We  may  view 
this  honor  roll  and  find  in  the  men  and  their  characters  an  example 
worthy  of  emulation.  It  is  well  believed  that  in  the  providence  of 
God  the  evangelization  of  the  millions  in  heathendom  must  be 
accomplished  by  personal  contact  through  education  as  the  current 
of  a  new  life — so  may  we  well  and  properly  conclude  that  the  devel- 
opment of  our  profession  for  the  past  fifty  years  has  been  accom- 
plished  largely  by  the  personal  influence,  the  unflagging  integrity 
and  career  of  usefulness  of  the  men  that  constitute  this  tribute 
defining  the  status  and  landmarks  of  American  pharmacy. 
OUR  CENTENNIAL.1 
By  John  Uri  Lloyd. 
Strange,  is  it  not,  that  standing  as  to-day  we  do,  in  the  fulfilment 
of  this  semi-centennial  of  our  Society,  one  among  us  should  look 
forward  and  venture  to  refer  to  "  our  Centennial,"  as  though  the 
years  that  separate  us  from  a  future  period,  doubling  as  they  must 
1  Read  at  the  Special  Jubilee  Session  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, September  n,  1902. 
