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something  and  the  preparation  of  this  paper  will  not  have  been  in 
vain. 
First :  We  should  endeavor,  by  national  legislation,  to  so  amend 
our  trade-mark  law  as  to  give  no  proprietorship  in  medicines  or 
medical  preparations.  I  believe  this  is  the  case  in  France.  When 
this  is  done  we  will  not  have  anyone  adopt  fanciful  names  for  old 
and  well-recognized  preparations,  and  endeavor  to  prevent  their 
manufacture  by  others.  Nor  will  we  have  two  or  three  well-known 
chemicals  combined,  and  foisted  on  the  public  at  a  price  twenty 
times  their  actual  cost.  A  patent  covers  a  period  of  fourteen  years, 
but  a  trade-mark,  like  Tennyson's  brook,  goes  on  forever. 
My  second  proposition  is,  to  secure,  by  State  legislation,  the 
enactment  of  a  law  making  it  an  offense,  punishable  with  fine  and 
imprisonment,  or  either  or  both,  for  any  person  to  sell,  or  offer  for 
sale,  any  so-called  patent  or  proprietary  remedy,  the  sworn  formula 
of  which  is  not  registered  with  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Pharma- 
ceutical Examining  Board,  which  shall  be  open  to  inspection,  unless 
such  preparations,  under  certain  restrictions,  are  prepared  by  a 
citizen  registered  under  the  State  Pharmacy  Law.  When  we  have 
legislation  such  as  is  here  indicated,  may  we  hope  to  place  pharmacy 
where  it  properly  belongs,  and  we  shall  have  the  dawning  of  a  new 
era  for  the  pharmacist  and  a  benefit  to  the  public  which  they  will 
learn  to  appreciate  more  and  more  as  the  years  roll  around. 
The  following  is  the  text  of  a  State  law,  such  as  I  have  outlined : 
AN  ACT 
To  prevent  the  sale  of  so-called  patent  or  proprietary  medicines 
within  the  State  of  Pennsylvania,  unless  the  formula  of  the  same 
is  registered  with  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Pharmaceutical 
Examining  Board. 
Section  i  .  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representa- 
tives of  the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  in  general  assembly  met, 
and  it  is  hereby  enacted  by  the  same,  That  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for 
any  person  or  persons  whatsoever,  to  sell  or  offer  for  sale  within 
this  Commonwealth  any  secret  nostrums,  proprietary  or  so-called 
patent  medicines,  unless  the  formula  of  such  preparation  or  pre- 
parations, duly  attested  under  oath,  be  first  registered  with  the  Sec- 
retary of  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board,  who  shall 
receive  a  fee  of  twenty-five  dollars  for  each  registration,  one-fifth  of 
