536        After-Thoughts  of  Historical  Exhibition.  {^ffijfgg- 
interests  which  require  so  many  of  the  goods  usually  found  in  the 
drug  store  to  be  sold  regardless  of  the  profitable  or  unprofitable 
character  of  the  sale,  it  does  seem  as  if  we  are  on  the  verge  of  a 
new  and  enlarged  order  of  things  based  upon  modern  business 
methods.  And  with  the  confidence  I  have  in  the  intelligence  and 
business  integrity  of  my  fellow  pharmacists,  it  is  but  natural  that  I 
lean  to  the  side  of  mutual  business  dependency  and  financial 
co-operation,  and  can  see  many  reasons  why  the  money  of  the 
retail  druggist,  when  fortified  by  the  good  qualities  of  its  owner,  can 
be  thus  honorably  and  profitably  employed.  And  in  these  days 
when  commercial  grab  in  the  disguise  of  commercial  enterprise 
seems  to  have  so  large  a  sway,  may  we  at  least  hope  that  pharma- 
ceutical training  will  exert  itself  and  control  the  future  situation. 
AFTER-THOUGHTS  OF  THE  HISTORICAL  EXHIBITION 
OF  THE  AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL 
ASSOCIATION. 
By  M.  I.  WlLBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
The  historical  exhibition,  that  was  held  in  connection  with  the 
semi-centennial  anniversary  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, was  a  most  interesting  object-lesson  of  the  marvelous  prog- 
ress made  in  ethical  pharmacy  during  the  past  century. 
It  was  especially  pleasing  that  the  committee  having  the  exhi- 
bition in  charge  succeeded  in  getting  together  such  a  large  number 
of  photographs  and  portraits  of  the  pioneers  and  leaders  in  the 
pharmaceutical  profession. 
Looking  back  over  the  miscellaneous  and  highly  interesting  col- 
lection of  relics  and  curios  that  were  to  be  found  in  the  various 
cases,  it  is  particularly  noticeable  how  intimately  these  curios  were 
connected  with  the  lifework  of  the  men  whose  portraits  were  shown 
in  another  portion  of  the  room.  It  would  be  difficult,  indeed,  to 
think  of  one  portion  of  the  exhibit  without  thinking  of  the  other. 
Perhaps  the  most  valuable  display,  and  the  one  that,  to  the  writer 
at  least,  appeared  to  be  the  binding  link  between  the  relics  on  the 
one  hand  and  the  portraits  on  the  other,  was  the  collection  of  phar- 
maceutical literature  shown  by  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
