22  Work  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy.     { A January fim™' 
calendar  for  that  day  are  paid  wherever  there  is  a  discount  for  cash 
allowed,  otherwise  they  go  over  for  thirty  days.  Forgetting  to  pay 
a  bill  means  a  loss  of  the  ten-day  discount.  Our  checks  for  the  past 
two  years  show  a  large  amount  of  money  saved  in  discounts,  and 
we  have  saved  many  times  the  cost  of  printing  the  check  book 
yearly,  we  might  almost  say  monthly. 
The  only  fault  we  have  found  with  above  described  check  is  that 
some  too  ignorant  to  understand  or  too  crafty  to  endorse  so  plain  a 
legal  receipt  may  cut  the  statement  off  and  the  check  is  still  good. 
To  obviate  this  we  suggest  an  improved  form  and  submit  a  sketch 
of  same  herewith. 
THE  WORK  OF  THE  COUNCIL  ON  PHARMACY  AND 
CHEMISTRY.1 
By  Samuel  P.  Sadtler. 
The  establishment  by  the  Trustees  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  of  an  unofficial  body  of  advisers,  known  as  the  "  Coun- 
cil on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion," has  excited  some  interest  on  the  part  of  the  medical  and  phar- 
maceutical professions,  and  various  statements,  some  considerably 
at  variance  with  the  facts  in  the  case,  have  been  made  in  professional 
journals  with  regard  to  this  action.  The  simple  facts  are  that  the 
body  of  fifteen  men,  whose  names  appear  under  this  heading  of 
Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry,  was  gathered  by  the  personal 
solicitation  of  Dr.  George  H.  Simmons,  the  editor  of  the  Journal 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  the  members  consented 
to  serve  with  him  in  that  advisory  capacity,  with  two  distinct  pieces 
of  work  indicated  from  the  beginning.  One  was  to  advise  Dr.  Sim- 
mons as  the  editor  of  the  Journal,  with  reference  to  the  true  char- 
acter and  actual  nature  of  certain  medicines,  advertisements  of  which 
were  offered  to  the  Journal,  and  the  other  was  to  follow  up  this 
preliminary  work  by  making  a  compilation  of  information  with 
regard  to  reliable  remedies  which  should  be  published  under  the 
auspices  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  with  the  title  of 
"  New  and  Non-Official  Remedies." 
At  the  time  the  Council  was  thus  constituted,  some  eighteen 
1  Read  before  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  November,  1906. 
