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Pharmaceutical  Colleges  and  Associations. 
Am.  Jour.  I'harm.. 
Juno,  1882. 
The  Massachusetts  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  organized 
at  Worcester,  May  17th,  about  two  hundred  apotliecaries  having  assembled 
in  Horticultural  Hall.  Words  of  welcome  were  spoken  by  Mr.  W.  Bush, 
of  the  Worcester  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  Mr.  C.  H.  Price,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Middlesex  County  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  elected 
temporary  chairman.  A  constitution  and  by-laws  had  been  informally 
discussed  the  preceding  evening  and  were  now  again  considered,  some- 
what amended  and  adopted. 
The  following  permanent  officers  were  elected  :  President,  S.  A.  D.  Shep- 
pard,  of  Boston;  Vice  Presidents — Wm.  Bush,  of  Worcester,  H.  A  P'sta- 
brook,  of  Fitchburg,  and  F.  T.  Whiting,  of  Great  Barrington  ;  Permanent 
Secretary;  J.  W.  Colcord,  of  Lynn  ;  Treasurer,  F.  H.  Butler,  of  Lowell. 
Standing  committees  on  papers  and  queries,  on  trade.  Executive  Commit- 
tee and  Trustees  on  permanent  fund,  and  delegates  to  the  American  and  to 
the  New  York  Pharmaceutical  Association  were  elected,  A  committee  of 
fifteen,  representing  different  parts  of  the  State,  was  appointed  on  the  sub- 
ject of  legislation  and  instructed  to  advocate  a  stringent  pharmacy  law. 
To  the  same  committee  were  referred  the  following  preamble  and  resolu- 
tion, offered  by  J.  G.  Forman,  of  Lynn  : 
"  Whereas,  Druggists  and  apothecaries  are  subject  to  much  inccmveni- 
ence  and  embarrassment  in  their  legitimate  business,  under  the  existing 
license  law,  and  in  some  towns  and  cities  the  heated  contests  of  the 
extreme  partisans  of  license  and  prohibition  have  resulted  in  the  refusal  to 
grant  the  sixth-class  license  to  apothecaries,  exposing  them  to  the  penal- 
ties of  the  law  for  sales  as  a  medicine,  even  though  made  under  the  pre- 
scription of  a  physician  ; 
^^Besolved,  That  the  Committee  on  Legislation  be  requested  to  represent 
this  evil  to  the  next  Legislature  of  the  Commonwealth,  and  to  secure,  if 
possible,  the  following  amendment  to  the  license  law,  as  far  as  it  relates  to 
apothecaries  :  Chapter  100,  section  2,  amend  so  as  to  read  '  Druggists  and 
apothecaries  may  sell  pure  alcohol  lor  medicinal,  mechanical  and_  chemi- 
cal purposes  ;  also,  wines  and  other  spirituous  liquors  when  prescribed  by 
a  physician;  they  may  also  sell  liquors  of  any  kind,  not  to  be  drank  on 
the  premises,  under  a  license  of  the  fourth  or  sixth  class  hereinafter  men- 
tioned: Provided,  however,  T\mt  druggists  shall  not  be  subjected  to  the 
penalties  for  unlawful  selling  when  the  sale  is  made  upon  the  prescription 
of  a  physician.'  " 
A  resolution  was  offered  by  Mr.  Canning,  of  Boston,  declaring  it  as  the 
sense  of  the  Association  that  the  wholesale  dealers  in  drugs  and  patent 
medicines  should  take  measures  to  protect  the  pharmacists  by  not  selling 
to  any  except  regular  pharmacists. 
The  following  papers  were  read  during  the  meeting: 
On  the  Pharmacopoeia,  by  Mr.  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  giving  its  history, 
commencing  with  the  local  pharmacopoeia  published  in  1805  by  the  Mas- 
sachusetts Medical  Society,  and  its  commentary,  the  dispensatory,  by  Dr. 
Jas.  Thacher,  of  Plymouth,  and  following  up  the  elaboration  of  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia  in  1820,  and  its  various  revisions  to  the  present  time,, 
and  referring  to  the  influence  upon  these  revisions  by  Drs.  Wood  and'. 
Bache,  the  authors  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory. 
