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mined  to  establish  siicli  an  one  in  Des  Moines  as  will  enable  graduates  to 
meet  these  requirements  "  (/.  e.,  of  the  Iowa  Pharmacy  Law). 
The  Wisconsin  Pharmaceutical  Association  held  its  third  annual 
meeting  atOshkosh,  August  8th  to  10th,  President  F.  Robinson  in  the  chair ; 
E.  B.  Heimstreet,  Secretary.  Reports  were  received  from  the  President, 
Permanent  Secretary,  Executive  Committee,  Committee  on  Drug  Market 
and  the  Board  of  Pharmacy,  the  latter  stating  tlie  total  registrations  under 
the  new  pharmacy  law  to  be  1,088,  of  which  number  902  are  registered 
pharmacists,  6  minor  and  180  assistant  pharmacists ;  46  were  graduates  and 
31  licentiates ;  30  applicants  were  rejected.  Professor  J.  M.  Maisch,  of  Pliila- 
delphia,  and  Dr.  C.  Smith,  of  Evansville,  were  elected  honorary  members. 
A  paper  on  Powdered  Drugs,  by  E.  B.  Stuart,  was  read,  and  ordered  to 
be  published,  and  greetings  were  exchanged  by  telegraph  with  the  North 
Carolina  Pharmaceutical  Association,  in  session  at  Winston.  Resolutions 
were  passed  favoring  the  organization  of  a  school  of  pharmacy  in  connec- 
tion with  the  State  University,  and  in  opposition  to  the  use  and  sale  of  all 
secret  medicines,  such  as  proprietary  and  trade-mark  compounds. 
The  officers  elected  for  the  current  year  are,  President,  George  Bauman,  of 
Oshkosh.  Vice-Presidents— R.  D.  Pulford,  of  Mineral  Point;  T.  J.  Hooper, 
of  Platteville.  Secretary,  E.  B.  Heimstreet.  of  Janesville.  Local  Secretary, 
T.  H.  Spence,  of  La  Crosse,  Treasurer,  W.  P.  Clarke,  of  Milton.  After 
the  appointment  of  the  Standing  and  Special  Committes  the  Association 
ajourned,  to  meet  again  at  La  Crosse  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  August, 
1*883. 
EDITORIAL  DEPAETMENT. 
Charges  against  Pharmacists. — The  dearth  of  news  incidental  to 
the  dog-days  has  caused  the  "Philadelphia  Press,"  a  daily  newspaper,  to 
enliven  its  columns  with  onslaughts  upon  the  integrity  of  the  pharmacists 
of  this  city,  and  to  attract  attention  thereto  by  sensational  headings,  such 
as  "Tricky  Druggists,"  "The  substitution  of  a  cheap  article  for  a  more 
expensive  one  a  common  practice  with  some  ajDothecaries,"  "Common 
Adulterations  by  some  Apothecaries,"  and  others  of  a  similar  nature. 
These  will  explain  the  compass  of  the  charges  brought  forward,  namely, 
adulteration  and  substitution.  As  might  have  been  expected,  certain  phy- 
sicians rushed  into  i)rint,  regardless  of  the  consequences  ;  several  who  had 
figured  in  similar  crusades  in  previous  years  were  temi)ted  to  a  renewal  of 
hostilities  ;  others,  more  or  less  obscure,  embraced  the  opportunity  of  being 
publicly  styled  "prominent."  The  few  really  prominent  physicians  who 
responded  to  the  interviewing  reporter  had  experienced  no  ditficulty  in 
procuring  drugs  of  good  quality,  and  in  having  their  prescriptions  accu- 
rately compounded.  The  charges,  as  heretofore,  were  based  on  failure  iui 
the  expected  activity,  on  low  price,  on  incorrect  color,  and  in  one  case  tlie 
microscope  was  guilty  of  revealing  to  an  M.D.  that  his  sugar-coated  2-grain 
quinine  pills  contained  only  one-quarter  of  a  grain  of  this  valuable  anti- 
malarial agent. 
