464  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {A™'cfober,?9OT!m' 
Continuing,  Dr.  Cohen  said  that  the  dependence  of  the  patient 
upon  the  physician  is  reflected  by  the  dependence  of  the  physician 
upon  the  pharmacist,  and  that  apart  from  the  physiologic  method  now 
much  in  vogue  in  the  treatment  of  disease,  physicians  depend  upon 
pharmacists  to  furnish  that  which  exists  in  nature  and  that  which 
art  alone  can  produce.  He  therefore  claimed  that  the  members 
should  not  get  together  for  recrimination,  but  to  work  for  the  insep- 
arable progress  of  pharmacy. 
Among  the  other  delegates  who  spoke  were  Edward  Williams, 
of  Madison,  Wis.,  delegate  from  the  National  Association  of  Retail 
Druggists;  E.  M.  Roehrig,  representing  the  Public  Health  and 
Marine  Hospital  Service,  and  Paul  J.  Waldner  from  the  U.  S.  Navy. 
Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley,  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture,  was 
welcomed  as  an  active  member  of  the  association,  and  in  respond- 
ing touched  upon  the  subject  of  the  efforts  at  improvement  in  phar- 
macy and  medicine.  He  said  that  if  it  were  not  for  the  moral  senti- 
ment of  the  people  no  reforms  could  be  effected  ;  that  every  law 
which  does  not  have  moral  sentiment  back  of  it  is  a  dead  letter. 
He  said  that  the  Food  and  Drugs  Act  had  been  supported  by  the 
great  organizations  of  the  country,  and  that  the  American  Phar- 
maceutical Association  was  one  of  the  first  to  give  encouragement 
to  the  work.  He  affirmed  that  trade  is  ethical,  and  in  answer 
to  the  question,  What  is  the  life  of  business  ?  replied,  honor.  Con- 
tinuing, he  said  that  the  Government  had  no  desire  to  punish  any 
one,  but  only  to  control  those  who  are  dishonest,  for  the  dishonest 
practices  of  a  few  will  demoralize  business.  He  said  because  98  per 
cent,  do  an  ethical  business,  Congress  is  able  to  control  the  2  per 
cent,  who  are  not  honest. 
At  the  request  of  President  Eliel,  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington 
introduced  Prof.  Jose  Guillermo  Diaz,  of  the  University  of  Havana, 
Cuba,  who  recently  finished  a  translation  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmaco- 
poeia into  Spanish.  Professor  Diaz  said  that  in  his  work  in  the 
University  he  had  had  occasion  to  refer  to  the  U.S.P.,  and  that  he 
had  translated  many  paragraphs  for  the  use  of  his  students.  He 
praised  the  completeness  and  clearness  of  the  work,  and  said  that 
the  pharmacists  of  Cuba  are  looking  forward  to  the  publication  of 
the  translated  edition. 
Prof.  William  M.  Searby,  of  San  Francisco,  in  responding  to  the 
addresses  of  welcome,  spoke  of  the  gratitude  which  the  druggists 
