328  American  Medical  Association.  {Am,jJu°iy^iS7arm' 
On  this  same  subject  the  retiring  president,  Dr.  William  J.  Mayo, 
in  his  address  to  the  House  of  Delegates,  said : 
"The  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  is  doing  a  work  of  unexampled 
importance  for  the  men  who  are  now  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine. 
The  proprietary-medicine  habit  of  physicians  has  been  in  its  way  even  more 
scandalous  than  the  '  patent-medicine '  habit  of  the  public  at  large,  because 
we  are  at  least  supposed  to  know  better.  The  work  of  the  Council  on  Phar- 
macy and  Chemistry  should  be  encouraged  by  every  means  in  our  power.  We 
should  not  only  expose  the  fraudulent  character  of  the  claims  of  the  proprietary 
people,  but  we  should  also  encourage  the  honest  firms  which  are  making 
scientific  preparations  of  known  composition." 
The  work  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  was  also 
commented  on,  favorably,  in  the  report  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
and  in  the  addresses  of  at  least  several  of  the  presiding  officers  of 
the  Sections. 
The  recommendations  of  the  Reference  Committee  on  Reports  of 
Officers,  which  were  unanimously  accepted  by  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates, contain  the  following  recommendation  of  the  work  of  the 
Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  : 
"  We  most  earnestly  commend  the  work  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and 
Chemistry  and  the  President's  views  thereon,  and  we  commend  to  the  Board  of 
Trustees  the  further  and  permanent  continuance  of  this  work.  We  most 
strongly  recommend  that  the  members  of  this  Association  confine  their  pre- 
scriptions to  articles  contained  in  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia,  the 
National  Formulary  or  such  as  have  been  approved  by  the  Council  on  Pharmacy 
and  Chemistry." 
The  attention  of  pharmacists,  in  attendance  at  the  session  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  was  more  directly  centered  in  the 
proceedings  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics. 
The  deliberations  of  this  Section  were  presided  over  by  Dr. 
Horatio  C.  Wood,  Jr.,  and  recorded  by  the  widely-known  secretary, 
Prof.  C.  S.  N.  Hallberg,  of  Chicago. 
The  initial  meeting  on  Tuesday  afternoon  was  devoted  to  the 
reading  of  the  address  of  the  chairman,  the  report  of  the  secretary, 
and  the  presentation  of  an  address  by  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington, 
the  chairman  of  the  delegation  from  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association.  This  portion  of  the  programme  was  followed  by  a 
symposium  on  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia. 
The  papers  presented  consisted  of  the  report  of  a  special  com- 
mittee appointed  at  the  meeting  in  Boston  last  year,  and  of  a  paper 
