Am.  Jour.  Pharru. 
June,  1907. 
Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
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PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A    QUARTERLY    REVIEW    OF    SOME    OF    THE    MORE    INTERESTING  AND 
IMPORTANT  ADVANCES  IN  PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
BY  M.  I.  WlXBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
The  interest  and  attention  of  pharmacists  is  still  largely  centered 
on  Food  and  Drug  Legislation.  No  less  than  seventeen  States 
have  enacted  laws  that  are  more  or  less  closely  patterned  after  the 
Pure  Food  and  Drugs  Act,  June  30,  1906,  and  this,  with  the  gener- 
ally evidenced  desire  to  have  these  laws  actually  enforced,  should 
go  far  to  bring  about  more  satisfactory  conditions  in  the  drug  and 
apothecary  business.  In  addition  to  Georgia  and  Vermont  the 
following  States  have  adopted  pure  food  and  drug  legislation  : 
West  Virginia,  Kansas,  North  Carolina,  South  Carolina,  Wyoming, 
Oregon,  California,  Washington,  Missouri,  Colorado,  New  Hamp- 
shire, South  Dakota,  North  Dakota,  Texas,  Indiana,  and  Ten- 
nessee. 
While  pharmacists  were  active  in  many  States  in  favor  of  the 
enactment  of  laws  of  this  kind,  it  appears  that  at  least  in  some 
sections  they  opposed  not  alone  legislation  but  also  worked  in 
opposition  to  the  medical  societies  of  their  respective  States.  This 
is  evidenced  by  the  report  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Tennessee  State 
Medical  Society  {Journal  American  Medical  Association,  April  20, 
1907,  page  1372),  where  Dr.  A.  B.  Cooke,  of  Nashville,  is  reported 
as  saying :  "  Notwithstanding  the  bitter  opposition  encountered 
from  the  drug  trade  we  were  successful  in  getting  a  pure  food  and 
drug  law  passed." 
A  decree  of  far-reaching  importance  and  one  that  should  go  far 
to  redeem  the  retail  drug  trade  from  the  pernicious  effects  of  the 
agreements  and  contracts  that  it  has  formed  and  fostered  during 
the  past  decade,  was  handed  down  recently  in  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court  in  Indianapolis.  This  decree  enjoins  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists' 
Association,  the  Proprietors'  Association  of  America,  and  upwards 
of  twenty  firms  and  individuals  from  combining,  or  by  threats  or 
other  means  compelling  manufacturers  or  dealers  to  enter  into 
combination  or  conspiracy  in  restraint  of  trade.  While  to  persons 
familiar  with  present-day  conditions  in  the  drug  trade  this  seriously 
