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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
[  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1  December,  1907. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  THE  MORE  IMPORTANT  ADVANCES  IN 
PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
BY  M.  I.  WlLBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
To  one  who  is  at  all  interested  in  the  progress  of  the  professional 
side  of  pharmacy,  a  retrospect  of  the  meetings  of  medical  and  phar- 
maceutical organizations,  during  the  past  year,  must  indeed  be  an 
inspiration  and  provocative  of  a  justifiable  sense  of  satisfaction. 
The  proceedings  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Medical 
Association,  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  of  other 
organizations  have  been  reported  at  some  length  in  this  Journal 
and  are  well  worth  reviewing. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists  Asso- 
ciation held  in  Denver,  Col.,  the  week  following  October  1st,  appears 
to  have  been  dominated  by  a  careful  consideration  of  legislative 
matters  and  the  evident  need  for  co-ordinating  the  several  State 
food  and  drug  laws  with  the  provisions  of  the  National  Law. 
Considerable  attention  was  also  devoted  to  the  consideration  of 
various  methods  that  have  been  proposed  for  curtailing  and  regu- 
lating the  sale  of  habit  forming  drugs  and  preparations  containing 
them. 
The  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists,  at  the  annual 
meeting  held  in  the  city  of  Chicago  the  week  following  September 
15th,  decided  to  enter  upon  an  active  propaganda  to  popularize 
U.S. P.  and  N.F.  preparations. 
A  special  meeting  of  the  Association  was  devoted  to  the  discus- 
sion of  the  problems  involved.  At  this  and  at  the  subsequent 
regular  meetings  of  the  Association,  much  enthusiasm  was  mani- 
fested and  the  resolutions  directing  that  this  work  be  undertaken 
were  adopted  without  opposition  of  any  kind. 
From  an  educational,  or  a  professional  point  of  view  this  proposed 
propaganda  is  by  far  the  most  important,  and  the  most  far  reaching, 
of  any  line  of  work  undertaken  by  the  National  Association. 
If  carried  to  a  successful  issue  it  will  bring  with  it  a  very  material 
advance  in  the  ideals  and  practices  of  present-day  pharmacy,  and  it 
will  certainly  bring  about  an  early  realization  of  that  better,  if  not 
completely  satisfactory,  understanding  of  the  mutual  duties  and 
