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Pharmaceu  tica  I  Meeting . 
(  Aqj.  Jour.  Pharru. 
I      March,  1907. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  Pharmaceutical  Meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  February  19th,  with 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  in  the  chair. 
Prof  Charles  H.  La  Wall  was  the  first  speaker  on  the  program, 
and  presented  a  paper  on  "The  Food  and  Drugs  Act  in  its  Relation 
to  Public  Health."  (See  p.  107.)  The  author  reviewed  conditions 
leading  up  to  the  passage  of  the  United  States  Food  and  Drugs  Act 
of  June,  1906,  and  in  considering  the  detailed  provisions  of  the  law, 
paid  particular  attention  to  the  section  on  misbranding. 
Mr.  Thomas  H.  Potts  called  attention  to  a  form  of  deception  in 
which  it  is  made  to  appear  that  the  serial  number  placed  by  manu- 
facturers on  packages  is  a  Government  guarantee  number. 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer  said  that  there  is  a  need  for  more  workers 
along  this  line.  He  referred  to  the  work  which  has  been  done  by 
Dr.  Wiley,  and  said  that  he  deserved  great  credit  not  only  for  his 
efforts  in  securing  the  adoption  of  the  Pure  Food  and  Drugs  Act, 
but  also  for  standing  out  so  many  years  against  the  moneyed 
interests  represented  by  unscrupulous  manufacturers. 
The  subject  of  drug  legislation  was  brought  up  and  Mr.  Wilbert 
said  that  pharmacists  were  making  a  mistake  in  not  taking  an  active 
part  in  it.  He  stated  that  in  Vermont  the  druggists  had  hesitated 
in  the  matter,  and  that  the  grocers  of  that  State  had  succeeded  in 
having  a  law  enacted  which  may  prove  inimical  to  the  interests  of 
pharmacists.  He  then  called  attention  to  the  bill  introduced  in  the 
Pennsylvania  legislature  which  is  practically  that  of  the  Wholesale 
Grocers'  Association,  and  does  not  exempt  physicians'  prescriptions 
and  the  preparations  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and 
National  Formulary  in  those  portions  of  the  bill  which  relate  to 
labelling.  Mr.  Wilbert  further  stated  that  this  bill  is  being  intro- 
duced in  the  legislatures  in  a  number  of  States,  while  the  bill  formu- 
lated by  the  Ladies'  Home  Journal  has  now  been  introduced  by 
twenty  State  legislatures  It  was  also  mentioned  that  a  bill  drafted 
by  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association  is  being  intro- 
duced in  some  States,  and  that  still  another  draft  is  that  of  the 
Proprietors'  Association. 
Mr.  Potts  spoke  of  the  meeting  in  Chicago  of  the  representatives 
of  the   National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  the  National 
