484  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {A'o'ctoberSrm' 
discuss  the  various  subjects  brought  up  fairly  and  calmly ;  and  that 
these  latter  bodies  join  hands  with  the  Council  on  Chemistry  and 
Pharmacy  of  the  A.M. A.,  which  he  said  belongs  as  much  to  one 
profession  as  the  other.  He  thought  that  joint  committees  might 
devise  harmless  home  remedies  which  could  be  sold  by  druggists 
without  interfering  with  ethical  canons. 
Again  he  urged  that  the  two  professions  join  hands  and  said, 
quoting  the  words  of  our  great  commander,  "  Let  us  have  peace." 
Robert  A.  Hatcher  said  he  thought  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  with  its  2,000  members,  should  embrace  the  opportunity 
offered  to  join  hands  with  70,000  medical  men,  and  offered  the  fol- 
lowing resolution,  which  was  adopted  : 
Resolved,  That  this  Section  request  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  to  direct  the  Committee  on  Legislation  to  co-operate 
with  the  State  legislative  committees  of  the  American  Medical 
Association  in  the  furtherance  of  such  legislation  as  is  designed  for 
the  mutual  benefit  of  the  two  professions  and  the  community  at 
large. 
A  recommendation  by  L.  E.  Sayre  that  the  State  pharmaceutical 
associations  be  informed  of  this  action  and  asked  to  adopt  similar 
resolutions,  was  approved. 
President  Eliel  said  that  he  saw  the  dawning  of  the  light  in  the 
east,  and  that  he  was  thankful  to  witness  these  signs  ot  better 
relations  between  physicians  and  pharmacists. 
Professor  Hallberg  read  a  resolution  along  similar  lines,  which 
had  been  adopted  by  the  Section  on  Pharmacology  at  the  recent 
meeting  of  the  A.M.A. 
On  convening  in  the  afternoon,  the  Section  took  up  the  discussion 
"of  the  subjects  involved  in  the  following  query  and  resolution  : 
What  effective  action  can  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion take  to  prevent  the  discredit  cast  upon  our  calling  by  pharmacy 
laws  which  in  specific  terms  authorize  the  Boards  of  Pharmacy  to 
license  minors  and  persons  without  any  prescribed  educational  quali- 
fications to  open  or  conduct  drug  stores  on  their  own  responsibility, 
to  have  charge  of  the  dispensing  of  medicines,  and  to  sell  opium, 
morphine,  cocaine  and  other  habit-producing  drugs  ? 
Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Section  on  Education  and 
Legislation  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  that  phar- 
macy laws  which  are  so  worded  that  they  permit  or  can  be  construed 
