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lence,  ignorance  or  cupidity,  that,  when  recognized  as  such,  would 
be  discredited  and  discontinued. 
From  an  analysis  of  the  prescription  files,  in  one  section  of  Phila- 
delphia, he  believes  that  the  use  of  proprietary  remedies  is  gradu- 
ally decreasing.  He  found  that  while  in  1901  a  total  of  32  per  cent, 
of  the  prescriptions  written  in  this  section  included  proprietary 
articles,  the  same  number  of  prescriptions  in  1906  averaged  but 
23^  per  cent,  with  proprietaries. 
He  expressed  the  belief  that  pharmacists  could  help  or  hinder 
progress  in  this  direction,  and  that  they  should  do  all  in  their 
power  to  discourage  the  use  of  ready-made  preparations  of  all 
kinds. 
Prof.  I.  V.  S.  Stanislaus  read  a  paper  entitled :  "  The  Need  for 
Discouraging  the  Use  of  Patent  as  well  as  Proprietary  Medicines." 
He  expressed  the  opinion  that  the  use  of  proprietary  medicines 
is  daily  becoming  more  perplexing,  and  that  there  is  practically 
no  difference  between  patent  and  proprietary  medicines. 
This  he  believed  to  be  an  opportune  time  for  active  work,  as  the 
popular  sentiment  is  clearly  in  favor  of  discouraging  the  use  of 
nostrums,  thus  giving  the  pharmacist  an  opportunity  to  eliminate 
secrecy  and  fraud  from  the  practice  of  his  profession  and  to  free 
himself  from  the  shackles  of  the  manufacturer  of  secret  remedies  as 
well  as  popular  nostrums. 
In  a  paper  on  "  The  Value  of  U.S. P.  and  N.F.  Preparations  as 
Compared  with  Proprietaries,"  Dr.  Thrush  fasserted  that  the  U.S. P. 
and  the  N.F.  are  not  widely  known  among  physicians  and  are  abso- 
lutely unknown  to  many.  He  made  a  number  of  suggestions  as  to 
how  pharmacists  might  popularize  these  books  with  physicians  and, 
in  conclusion,  read  a  list  of  well-known  proprietaries  with  the  cor- 
responding U.S.P.  or  N.F.  preparations  that  had  been  found  to  have 
the  same  physiologic  action. 
Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington  read  a  paper  descriptive  of  "  The 
Exhibition  of  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  Preparations  at  the  Coming  Meeting 
of  the  American  Medical  Association."  He  described  the  object  of 
the  proposed  exhibition  and  the  abuses  that  it  was  designed  to 
correct,  and  referred,  incidentally,  to  the  lack  of  recognition  that 
had  been  accorded  the  preparations  of  the  National  Formulary  by 
physicians. 
As  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the  United  States 
