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March.  1907. 
FEBRUARY  MEETING. 
The  regular  stated  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  held  on  the  evening  of 
Tuesday,  February  5,  1 907,  in  the  Hall  of  the  College  of  Physicians. 
The  subject  under  discussion,  "  Higher  Educational  Require- 
ments for  Pharmacists,"  has  attracted  considerable  attention  during 
the  past  year  or  more,  and  it  was  therefore  not  surprising  to  find  that 
retail  pharmacists  attending  this  meeting  were  comparatively  well 
informed  on  questions  relating  to  education,  and  fully  appreciated 
the  need  for  more  rapid  advancement  along  educational  lines  in  the 
future. 
The  first  speaker  on  the  subject,  Mr.  William  L.  Cliffe,  in  discuss- 
ing "  The  Practical  Needs  for  Higher  Education  in  Pharmacy," 
called  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  people  at  large  are  rapidly 
becoming  more  thoroughly  familiarized  with  the  needs  and  the 
wants  of  the  practice  of  pharmacy. 
He  believes  that  with  the  further  elimination  of  empiricism  and 
mysticism  from  the  science  of  medicine  more  will  be  expected  of 
pharmacists,  and  they  in  turn  will  be  required  to  be  educated  in 
every  way. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer,  in  speaking  on  "Standards  in  Pharma- 
ceutical Education,"  (see  p.  101)  called  attention  to  the  fact  that 
up  to  the  present  time  the  progress  of  pharmacy  in  this  country 
had  been  comparatively  slow  and  that  we  are  now  entering  on  an 
era  of  more  rapid  development.  He  believes  that  the  enactment  of 
pure  food  and  drug  laws  will  add  great  additional  responsibility  to 
the  duties  of  the  retail  pharmacist  and  will  also  tend  to  more  sharply 
define  the  corresponding  duties  of  the  colleges  and  of  the  boards  of 
pharmacy. 
Dr.  Horatio  C.  Wood,  Jr.,  in  speaking  on  "  The  Future  Elabora- 
tion of  a  Course  in  Pharmacy,"  said  that,  as  a  commercial  pursuit, 
the  business  of  pharmacy  must  necessarily  be  one  of  limited  scope 
and  possibilities ;  as  a  profession,  however,  pharmacy  can  be  developed 
into  an  occupation  of  laudable  aims  and  high  ideals.  He  believes 
that  the  pharmacist  should  develop  as  the  assistant  and  the  adviser 
of  the  physician,  who  in  turn  must  depend  more  and  more  on  the 
efforts  of  the  pharmacist  to  select  for  him  and  to  improve  on  the 
efficiency  of  the  available  articles  of  the  materia  medica. 
