1 88  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  {Km'££&\J$m*m% 
common  with  probably  the  greater  majority  of  physicians,  had  no 
positive  or  well,  defined  ideas  on  the  limitations  that  should  properly 
be  set  on  the  renewal  of  prescriptions. 
On  the  one  hand  he  believed  that  the  renewal  of  prescriptions  for 
many  comparatively  simple  external  applications,  such  as  mild 
rubefacient  liniments,  and  even  the  renewal  of  many  prescriptions 
designed  for  internal  use,  such  as  stomachics  and  mild  laxatives, 
could  not  well  be  objected  to  from  any  reasonable  point  of  view. 
On  the  other  hand  prescriptions  containing  potent  remedies,  or 
remedies  that  are  at  all  known  to  create  drug  addiction  or  to  do 
harm  if  long  continued,  should  not  be  renewed  indiscriminately,  and 
should  under  no  condition  be  trafficked  in  and  never  filled  for  any 
other  than  the  original  holder  of  the  prescription. 
In  this  connection  Dr.  Kelly  quoted  a  number  of  instances  that 
had  come  to  his  personal  attention  where  the  continued  or  the 
unwarranted  use  of  potent  remedies  had  done  much,  and  in  several 
instances  at  least  permanent,  injury. 
Mr.  Franklin  M.  Apple  presented  "An  Efficient  Plan  for  Control- 
ling the  Renewal  of  Prescriptions."  Mr.  Apple  thought  that  the 
need  for  some  well  defined  plan  to  prevent  the  renewal  of  prescrip- 
tions was  well  evidenced  by  the  ever  increasing  number  of  physicians 
who  were  using  some  form  of  injunction  on  their  prescription  blanks. 
He  discussed,  at  some  length,  the  several  forms  of  injunction  that 
had  been  brought  to  his  attention  and  compared  these  with  the 
form  that  had  been  devised  by  him.  This  form  he  designated 
"  The  square  deal  prescription  blank,"  as  it  puts  the  responsibility, 
for  the  refusal  to  renew  a  prescription,  where  it  rightly  belongs — on 
the  physician. 
Mr.  Apple's  prescription  blank  has  on  the  face,  immediately 
under  the  physician's  name  and  address,  the  following : — 
"  Note — The  conditions  under  which  this  prescription  is  written 
will  be  found  on  reverse  side  hereof." 
On  the  reverse  is  the  following  : — 
"  This  prescription  is  written  for  the  party  whose  name  appears 
thereon,  for  the  present  indications  only ;  hence  it  is  not  to  be 
renewed  without  my  written  consent,  and  no  copy  of  same  is  to  be 
given. 
u  The  Pharmacist  compounding  it  will  kindly  preserve  same  on 
his  prescription  file." 
