AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION.  499 
the  next  Congress  in  the  name  of  this  Association,  for  such  amend- 
ments to  the  drug  law  as  shall  place  it  upon  a  better  basis,  and 
make  it  a  more  effectual  protection  to  the  community  and  the  in- 
terests of  the  apothecaries." 
Then  adjourned  to  3  o'clock,  P.  M. 
Afternoon  Session. 
The  Association  was  called  to  order  by  the  President  at  3 
o'clock. 
On  motion,  a  committee  was  appointed,  to  examine  and  report 
on  the  various  specimens  and  apparatus  on  exhibition  in  the 
Hall,  consisting  of  S.  M.  Colcord,  W.  Procter,  Jr.,  and  J. 
Meakim. 
0.  S.  Hubbell,  of  Philadelphia,  was  proposed,  balloted  for,  and 
elected  a  member  of  the  Association. 
A  resolution  to  provide  for  the  better  preservation  of  the  doc- 
uments of  the  Association  was  laid  on  the  table. 
The  appeal  brought  forward  by  the  Committee  on  Poisons  as 
an  appendage  to  their  report  was  again  read,  and  by  resolution 
adopted,  and  directed  to  be  published  in  the  proceedings. 
AN  APPEAL  TO  THE  PHARMACEUTISTS  AND  DRUG- 
GISTS OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 
The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  at  the  suggestion  of  a  com- 
mittee appointed  by  it  to  report  upon  "  the  subject  of  the  Sale  of  Poisons" 
does  respectfully  submit  to  the  Pharmaceutists  and  Druggists  of  the 
United  States  the  following  suggestions,  in  relation  to  regulating  the  sale 
of  poisons  : 
From  the  diversity  of  opinion  among  Pharmaceutists  in  relation  to  the 
value  and  force  of  direct  legislative  action  in  restricting  the  sale  of  poi- 
sonous substances,  the  Association  does  not  deem  it  desirable  to  attempt 
at  present  the  passage  of  laws  in  the  different  States  bearing  upon  the 
subject ;  but  in  place,  offers  to  the  Pharmaceutist  such  suggestions  as  are 
deemed  expedient  under  existing  circumstances. 
The  Association  suggests,  That  the  Pharmaceutist  should  adopt  rules 
in  dispensing  of  poisons,  by  which  he  may  remove  from  himself  the  re- 
sponsibility of  selling  poisons  for  disreputable  purposes,  and  protect  the 
public,  both  from  mistakes  occurring  in  his  own  premises,  and  from  the  use 
of  poisons  for  unlawful  and  criminal  purposes. 
The  Association  therefore  offer  the  following  suggestions  : 
That,  in  selling  any  substance  which  would  prove  fatal  in  a  dose  of  60 
grains  by  weight,  or  a  fluid  drachm  by  measure,  you  consider  it  poisonous, 
