Am.  Jour.  Pliarm. ) 
Jan.,  188-2.  j 
Met' lews,  dc. 
4S. 
Proceedings  of  the  Wisconsin  Pharniaeeutieal  Association  Iicld  in  Milwaa- 
kce  August  9,  10  and  11,  1881.    Janesville.    8vo,  pp.  51. 
At  this,  the  second  annual  meeting,  the  President,  Mr.  John  A.  Dadd, 
presided  ;  the  various  standing  and  special  committees,  as  well  as  the  offi- 
cers, made  their  annual  reports,  and  a  number  of  prac-tical  papers  were 
read.  The  officers  for  the  current  year  are:  President,  F.  Robinson,. 
Kenosha.  Vice  Presidents— Adam  Conrath,  Milwaukee;  T.  F.  Prentice, 
Janesville ;  T.  Wolfrum,  West  Bend  ;  R.  Sauerhering,  May  ville ;  W.  G. 
Spence,  Manston;  J.  A.  Farnham,  Fennimore;  A.  Trayser,  New  London, 
and  G.  Bauman,  Oshkosh.  Permanent  Secretary,  E.  B.  Heimstreet,  Janes- 
ville. Local  Secretary,  L.  A.  Schultz,  Oshkosh,  and  Treasurer,  A.  J. 
Roberts,  Janesville.  The  next  meeting  will  l)e  held  at  Oshkosh  on  the 
second  Tuesday  of  August,  1882. 
Die  Gewerbefreiheit  in  der  Pharniacie.    Von  A.  Sauter,  Apotheker,  als^ 
Grossrath.    Genf :  Th.  Mueller,  1881.    8vo,  pp.  51. 
Free  Trade  in  Pharmacy. 
In  several  countries  of  continental  Europe  questions  as  to  the  continu- 
ance of  the  limitation  of  pharmacies  or  the  free  practice  of  pharmacy, 
depending  upon  furnishing  i)roof  of  competency,  have  been  discussed  for 
several  years  past.  The  i^amphlet  which  we  noticed  on  p.  544  of  our  Octo- 
ber number  advances  rather  far-fetched  arguments  in  favor  of  the  former, 
while  the  pamphlet  now  before  us  is  a  vigorous  and  able  plea  in  favor  of 
the  latter.  We  need  scarcely  say  that  the  sympathies  of  the  American 
pharmacists  are  unanimously  with  the  latter  view,  the  more  so  since  they 
know  from  their  own  experience  that  some  of  the  chief  arguments  of  the 
adherents  to  the  former  view  are  based  upon  ignorance  of  the  true  facts  as 
they  exist,  at  least  in  this  country,  which  is  not  unfrequently  cited  as  an 
example  of  the  most  unfortunate  evils  existing  in  medicine  and  phar- 
macy ;  these  facts  relate  to  the  asserted  bad  and  adulterated  drugs,  high 
prices  of  medicines,  insufficient  supply  in  stock,  manufacture  of  secret 
remedies,  carelessness  in  dispensing  and  in  the  handling  of  poisons,  etc. 
Reform  in  Medical  Education. 
The  annual  address  delivered  before  the  American  Academy  of  Medi- 
cine at  its  sixth  annual  meeting,  in  New  York,  Sept.  20,  1881,  by  the  Pre- 
sident, Edward  T.  Caswell,  A.M.,  M.D.,  of  Providence,  R.  I. 
Annmd  Report  of  the,  Surgeon-GcnercU,  IJ.  S.  Ariny,  1881.    8vo,  pp.  23. 
Annual  Report  of  the  Chief  Signal  Officer  of  the  Arnuj  to  the  Secretary  of 
War  for  the  Year  18S1.    8vo,  pp.  8(j. 
Jioth  these  official  reports  contain  a  large  amount  of  matter  of  general 
interest.  In  this  resi)ect  we  have  been  particularly  attracted  by  the  growth 
of  the  library  of  the  Surgeon-General's  office,  which  now  numbers  about 
54,000  volumes  and  00,200  pamphlets,  and  by  the  ]>rogress  of  the  publica- 
tion of  the  rndex-Cataloguc. 
