542  Exhibition  of  Official  Preparations.    {  ^embefS™' 
had  been  authorized  by  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Association  at 
the  recent  annual  meeting  in'  Bedford  Springs.  A  committee  of 
eight  members,  with  Mr.  William  L.  Cliffe  as  chairman,  had  been 
appointed  to  arrange  for  the  exhibition,  and  also  to  serve  as  delegates 
from  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  to  attend  the  meetings  of  the 
State  Medical  Society. 
In  addition  to  the  much  appreciated  and  really  creditable  exhibi- 
tion, the  committee  had  also  secured  several  hundred  copies  of  the 
"  Manual  of  the  U.S.P.  and  N.F.,"  recently  published  by  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association.  These  booklets,  with  a  correspondingly 
large  number  of  pamphlets  entitled,  "  The  Propaganda  for  Reform 
in  Proprietary  Medicines,"  were  freely  distributed  and  were  much 
appreciated  by  the  visiting  physicians. 
Of  the  delegates  appointed  by  the  President  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  Messrs.  Cliffe,  Hunsberger,  Lemberger 
and  Stein  were  in  constant  attendance  to  explain  the  advantages  of 
using  official  or  open  formulary  preparations  in  preference  to  secret 
proprietaries  of  variable  or  uncertain  composition. 
At  the  concluding  General  Session  of  the  State  Medical  Society, 
Mr.  William  L.  Cliffe,  the  chairman  of  the  delegation  from  the 
Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  was  invited  to  address  the 
society  on  the  object  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  in  making 
this  exhibition. 
After  presenting  the  greetings  and  felicitations  of  the  State  Phar- 
maceutical Association,  Mr.  Cliffe  briefly  outlined  the  object  of  the 
present  propaganda  for  popularizing  U.S.P.  and  N.F.  preparations, 
and  concluded  by  expressing  the  wish  that  members  of  the  State 
Medical  Association,  who  had  seen  the  exhibition  and  had  been 
interested  in  the  preparations  there  presented,  would  continue  their 
interest,  and  he  further  assured  them  that  by  lending  a  hand  to  aid 
in  the  advance  of  the  science  of  pharmacy  they  would  materially 
assist  true  progress  in  the  science  of  medicine. 
Many  of  the  physicians  in  attendance  at  the  meeting  of  the  State 
Medical  Association  were  loud  in  their  praises  of  the  enterprise 
shown  by  the  pharmacists  in  making  this  exhibition,  and  the  mem- 
bers of  the  delegation  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association,  who  were 
present,  were  shown  every  courtesy  possible,  both  by  the  officers  of 
the  State  Society  as  well  as  the  members  of  the  local  Committee  of 
Arrangements. 
