Am'Mly,\sy7m'}      The  American  Medical  Association,  221 
A  very  slight  modification  of  the  above  process  might  (with  all  diffi- 
dence) be  suggested,  which  would  seem  to  give  a  congruity  of  purpose, 
a  unity  of  plan,  and  a  solidarity  of  result,  eminently  fitting  and  equita- 
ble. Remembering  that  u  pharmacy  is  but  a  specialty  of  medicine," 
"  but  a  subordinate  part  of  the  medical  art  ;"  and  remembering  further 
that  tc  by  right  every  pharmacist  should  be  a  member  of  the  medical 
profession  by  education,  and  should  then  be  a  member  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,"  (p.  22.)  and,  whereas,  there  should  be  no 
invidious  distinction  made  between  the  several  parts  of  the  "  united 
interests  of  medicine  "  in  this  country,  or  between  the  decennial 
Pharmacopoeia  Convention  on  the  one  hand,  and  the  annual  Asso- 
ciation of  Pharmacists  on  the  other,  in  our  treatment  of  the  same, 
therefore,  let  it  be  u  resolved,"  that  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion,  as  the  superior  representative  body  of  the  organized  medical  pro- 
fession, does  now  and  hereby  relieve  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  from  any  further  acts  of  control  or  management  of  affairs 
connected  with  the  improvement  of  the  art  and  science  of  pharmacy, 
and  does  now  and  hereby  "assume"  the  entire  ownership  and  control 
of  all  the  properties,  rights,  duties  and  proceedings  whatsoever  of  the 
said  Association.  For  "  it  will  hardly  be  doubted  that  this  Association, 
as  the  only  national  representative  of  the  profession,"  "  is  fairly  entitled 
to  the  management  and  control  of  all  the  general  interests  of  that  pro- 
fession, and  the  only  proper  source  of  authoritative  action."  As 
pharmacy  is  evidently  one  of  the  most  important  interests  of  the 
medical  profession,  "  it  would  be  quite  competent  for  this  Association," 
at  its  next  meeting,  to  accomplish  this  desirable  end  and  thus  give  to 
pharmacy  a  "truly  national"  character  !  The  absorption  of  virtue, 
by  this  proceeding,  would,  doubtless,  fully  equal  the  "  assumption  "  of 
responsibility  thus  "resolutely"  effected.  For  there  is  much  virtue  in 
good  "  resolutions." 
The  writer  appears  to  realize  that  this  Association  is  not  entirely 
adapted  to  the  peculiar  business  in  which  he  would  have  it  engage  ; 
(p.  24.)  and  that  even  a  select  council,  to  whom  it  should  wholly 
commit  the  subject,  could  not  be  expected  to  "  do  it  moderately  well 
without  special  training."  (p.  14.)  Nevertheless,  having  wrenched  the 
spoil  from  a  Convention  of  "  specialized  function,"  for  the  honor  and 
aggrandizement  of  the  "  superior  "  Association,  he  would  have  the 
latter  "  control  and  manage    the   Pharmacopoeia   by   means   of  a 
