AfAuguUst,'  191™'}     65th  Annual  Session  of  A.  M.  A.  375 
the  printing  is  started.  One  of  these  questions  is  the  form  of  so- 
called  bichloride  tablets.  As  is  well  known,  the  enormous  use  of 
these  tablets  is  a  menace  to  the  future  growth  and  prosperity  of  the 
nation.  The  Pharmacopceia  cannot  check  the  use  of  these  tablets, 
but  it  can  at  least  direct  the  form  for  their  use  which  will  prevent  acci- 
dent so  far  as  possible  through  swallowing  the  tablets  or  their  solution. 
"  The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  during  the  past 
year,  has  used  its  influence  in  every  possible  way  in  controlling  or 
limiting  the  use  of  habit- forming  drugs  by  national  and  State  legis- 
lation. Committees  have  been  formed  from  the  membership  who 
are  working  to  stamp  out  this  evil. 
"  The  body  which  I  have  the  honor  to  represent  asks  the  assist- 
ance of  your  body  to  aid  in  framing  wise  laws  which  will  make  it 
difficult  for  dopesters  to  continue  their  habits,  and  by  limiting  the 
use  of  these  drugs  to  prescriptions  by  properly  educated  physicians, 
who  are  earnestly  trying  to  curtail  the  evil. 
"  In  educational  matters  Pharmacy  has  progressed  in  the  direc- 
tion of  raising  the  standard  of  education  of  those  entering  Pharmacy, 
and  enlarging  the  curriculum  in  the  colleges.  May  we  not  hope 
that  Medicine  and  Pharmacy  will  be  more  closely  linked  in  the 
future,  and  that  crimination  and  recrimination  will  cease,  or  take 
the  form  of  constructive  criticism,  with  the  intention  of  remedying 
the  evils  and  correcting  abuses,  and  will  be  actuated  by  harmony 
between  the  two  professions." 
Referring  more  particularly  to  the  probable  scope  of  the  U.  S.  P. 
IX,  the  following  table  represents  the  status  of  that  book  at  the 
present  time: 
Number  of  articles  in  text  of  U.  S.  P.  VIII   95$ 
U.  S.  P.  VIII  articles  dismissed  from  U.  S.  P.  IX  list   237 
Number  of  articles  retained  from  U.  S.  P.  VIII  ,   721 
Number  of  new  articles  admitted  to  U.  S.  P.  IX   67 
Total  number  of  articles  in  tentative  list  of  U.  S.  P.  IX   788 
On  motion  of  Dr.  Murray  Gait  Motter,  of  Washington,  D.  C, 
the  Section  on  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  adopted  the  following  resolution,  which  was 
referred  to  the  House  of  Delegates,  endorsed  by  that  body,  and  thus 
officially  recognized  as  the  opinion  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion : 
