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NATIONAL   PHARMACEUTICAL  CONVENTION. 
zation  of  the  Association,  the  roll  shall  be  called,  when  a  com- 
mittee on  credentials  shall  be  appointed  from  the  members  present, 
to  whom  the  certificates  of  delegates  shall  be  submitted,  and  who 
shall  examine  the  claims  of  all  other  applicants  for  membership 
before  they  are  submitted  to  the  Association." 
It  was  adopted — 
They  also  proposed  the  following  addition  to  Section  2d. 
"  Every  local  pharmaceutical  association  shall  be  entitled  to  send 
five  delegates." 
After  some  discussion  as  to  the  propriety  of  limiting  the  number 
shall  be  submitted,  and  who  shall  examine  the  claims  of  all  other  applicants 
for  membership  before  they  are  submitted  to  the  Association. 
Section-  V. 
This  Constitution  may  be  altered  or  amended  by  a  vote  of  three-fourths 
of  the  members  present  at  any  regular  meeting,  and  notice  to  alter  or 
amend  the  same  shall  be  given  at  least  one  sitting  before  a  vote  there- 
upon. 
CODE  OF  ETHICS  OF    THE  AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  composed  of  Pharmaceutists 
and  Druggists  throughout  the  United  States,  feeling  a  strong  interest  in 
the  success  and  advancement  of  their  profession  in  its  practical  and  scien- 
tific relations,  and  also  impressed  with  the  belief  that  no  amount  of  know- 
ledge and  skill  will  protect  themselves  and  the  public  from  the  ill  effects 
of  an  undue  competition,  and  the  temptations  to  gain  at  the  expense  of 
quality,  unless  they  are  upheld  by  high  moral  obligations  in  the  path  of 
duty,  have  subscribed  to  the  following  Code  of  Ethics  for  the  government 
of  their  professional  conduct. 
Art.  I.  As  the  practice  of  pharmacy  can  only  become  uniform  by  an 
open  and  candid  intercourse  being  kept  up  between  apothecaries  and  drug- 
gists among  themselves  and  each  other,  by  the  adoption  of  the  National 
Pharmacopoeia  as  a  guide  in  the  preparation  of  officinal  medicines,  by  the 
discontinuance  of  secret  formulae  and  the  practices  arising  from  a  quackish 
spirit,  and  by  an  encouragement  of  that  esprit  du  corps  which  will  prevent 
a  resort  to  those  disreputable  practices  arising  out  of  an  injurious  and 
wicked  competition; — Therefore,  the  members  of  this  Association  agree  to 
uphold  the  use  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  in  their  practice  ;  to  cultivate  brotherly 
feeling  among  the  members,  and  to  discountenance  quackery  and  dishonor- 
able competition  in  their  business. 
Art.  II.  As  labor  should  have  its  just  reward,  and  as  the  skill  know- 
ledge and  responsibility  required  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy  are  great, 
