Am'ju°nUe?i9(SarDQ'}    American  Pharmaceutical  Association  303 
ON  THE  PHARMACOPCElAIy  RECOGNITION  OF  DIPHTHERIA 
ANTITOXIN. 
By  J.  W.  England. 
The  author  considered  the  theory  of  action  of  diphtheria  antitoxin  and  the 
methods  of  preparation.  In  its  administration  an  excess  should  be  used,  rather 
than  small  quantities.  In  conclusion,  the  writer  suggested  that  methods  for 
its  assay  be  adopted,  so  as  to  secure  uniform  products  by  manufacturers. 
A  motion  to  appoint  a  committee  to  consider  the  feasibility  of  the  admission 
of  this  antitoxin  into  the  Pharmacopoeia  was  adopted.  It  was  suggested  that 
specialists  should  serve  on  the  committee,  and  their  appointment  was  left  for  a 
later  time. 
Dr.  A.  R.  L.  Dohme  was  reelected  to  serve  on  the  Committee  on  Research  and 
Prof.  J.  O.  Schlotterbeck  was  chosen  to  take  the  place  of  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd, 
who  preferred  not  to  be  re-elected. 
The  Section  was  then  adjourned. 
EDUCATION  AND  LEGISLATION. 
The  first  session  of  this  Section  was  called  to  order  Friday  at  2.15  p.m.  by  the 
Chairman,  Dr.  C.  B.  Lowe,  of  Philadelphia.  Dr.  F.  E.  Stewart  was  asked  to 
preside  while  the  Chairman  delivered  his  annual  address.  It  was  in  part  as 
follows  : 
"In  connection  with  the  first  of  these  subjects,  viz.,  'The  Model  Pharmacy 
Law,'  I  would  call  your  attention  to  the  following  matters  ;  although  it  is  quite 
probable  that  most  of  them  will  also  be  reported  upon,  yet  their  importance  is 
sufficient  to  warrant  me  in  thus  presenting  and  reiterating  them. 
"In  the  first  place,  as  pharmacy  laws  are  enacted  for  the  benefit  of  the 
citizens  of  the  several  States  (and  only  incidentally  for  that  of  pharmacists), 
it  is  entirely  reasonable  and  just  that  all  expenses  of  administering  such  laws 
should  be  met  by  direct  appropriation  from  the  State  treasuries,  as  is  the  case 
with  the  administration  of  other  State  laws,  or  State  departments,  and  not  by 
the  fines  or  fees  collected  by  the  pharmacy  boards.  When  the  expenses  of 
administering  a  pharmacy  law  are  paid  out  of  the  accruing  fines  and  fees,  it 
lays  the  Board  open  to  the  criticism  of  rejecting  applicants  for  registration  so 
that  they  can  get  another  fee  from  them,  or  of  being  unduly  harsh  in  the 
administration  of  the  law  so  that  the  accruing  fines  may  swell  their  receipts. 
It  also  seems  to  me  that  it  should  be  the  duty  of  the  prosecuting  or  district 
attorneys  to  prosecute  all  violators  of  the  pharmacy  law,  as  they  do  the 
violators  of  other  laws  of  the  State.  In  this  connection  I  might  say  that  the 
evidence  which  is  required  in  some  States  to  convict  a  non-registered  pharma- 
cist of  the  violation  of  the  law  by  the  compounding  of  prescriptions,  viz.,  that 
such  compounding  was  done  in  the  presence  of  the  witness,  defeats  justice,  as 
in  all  such  cases  the  compounding  is  done  in  privacy,  special  care  being  taken 
to  exclude  witnesses.  It  should  be  evidence  enough  that  the  written  prescrip- 
tion was  received  over  the  counter  and  the  compounded  prescription  handed 
back. 
"  It  would  seem  to  me  that  the  time  is  near  at  hand  when  the  expression  of 
opinion,  which  was  unanimously  agreed  to  at  the  last  meeting  of  this  Section, 
viz.,  'that  none  but  recognized  graduates  should  be  received  by  boards  of  phar- 
