392  Maryland  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {Aulugusrtamm* 
becomes  more  general  all  over  the  land,  it  is  useless  to  expect  it  to 
succeed  in  a  large  city.  It  is  absolutely  impossible  to  expect  to 
attain  a  perfect  system  of  checking  the  cutting  of  prices.  *  *  *  I 
believe  that  there  are  to-day  among  the  professed  friends  of  the 
rebate  system  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  drug  trade,  and  especially 
among  those  who  are  working  tor  its  success,  and  condemn  its  vio- 
lation in  speech  and  in  print,  persons  and  firms  who  are  making  con- 
siderable money  by  surreptitiously  supplying  cutters  all  over  the 
land  with  goods  of  all  descriptions.  This  is  nefarious,  but  how  it 
can  be  prevented  by  law  is  beyond  my  ability  to  suggest." 
He  advised  a  continuation  of  the  agitation  in  favor  of  repealing 
the  war-revenue  law  and  commended  the  action  taken  by  the 
National  Pure  Food  and  Drug  Congress.  He  also  suggested  a. 
change  in  the  manner  of  selecting  meeting  places,  that  instead  of 
going  from  place  to  place  it  would  be  better  to  select  Ocean  City 
for  the  Eastern  shore  and  Blue  Mountain  House  for  the  Western 
shore,  meeting  at  these  places  alternately. 
Secretary  Charles  H.  Ware's  report  stated  that  the  Association 
had  153  members,  with  a  number  of  applications  to  be  acted  upon. 
An  interesting  report  on  trade  interests  was  submitted  by  H.  P. 
Hynson.  He  recommended  the  formation  of  a  commercial  league, 
to  be  a  part  of  the  Maryland  Pharmaceutical  Association.  Mr. 
Hynson  said  there  were  three  branches  of  the  trade  represented  in 
the  Association — the  retailer,  wholesaler  and  manufacturer — and 
argued  that  each  of  these  three  branches  should  be  brought  into 
closer  touch  with  every  other  branch  through  the  proposed  com- 
mittee, with  the  result  that  a  larger  measure  of  co-operation  could 
be  secured.    The  matter  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Laws. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Adulterations  was  made  through 
Dr.  Daniel  Base,  who  submitted  several  samples  of  adulterated 
drugs,  after  which  Dr.  Church,  of  Church  Falls,  Va.,  was  introduced 
and  made  an  address  on  the  Virginia  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Mr.  Hynson,  acting  for  a  committee  of  six,  three  members  repre- 
senting the  Maryland  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Faculty  and  three 
the  Maryland  Pharmaceutical  Association,  submitted  a  set  of  rules 
to  govern  the  relations  between  the  two  professions.  They  provided 
that  pharmacists  shall  refuse  to  prescribe  for  customers,  except  in 
emergency  cases,  and  that  physicians  shall  carry  emergency  reme- 
dies only;  that  substitution  shall  not  be  resorted  to;  that  physicians 
