o?;ober"':i^2a''"" }     Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  749 
Site. — The  Committee  have  had  the  question  of  site  under  care- 
ful consideration,  and  it  is  hoped  will  be  ready  to  report  specifically 
in  a  short  time. 
The  report  was  ordered  entered  and  filed. 
The  deaths  of  Richard  W.  Cuthbert,  a  member  of  the  College 
since  1872,  and  of  Miss  Jamella  Fox  since  191 8,  were  annouticed. 
George  M.  Beringer  offered  the  following  as  a  minute  expressing 
the  position  of  the  College  on  the  subject  of  ilUcit  sales  of  narcotic 
drugs  and  alcoholic  beverages  and  moved  that  it  be  adopted,  spread 
upon  our  minutes  and  copies  sent  to  the  Government  officials  charged 
with  enforcing  the  laws  and  to  the  medical  and  pharmaceutical 
press  and  to  the  newspapers. 
The  correction  of  alleged  abuses  in  the  drug  and  apothecary 
business  was  the  principal  reason  assigned  for  the  meetings  of  Phila- 
delphia apothecaries  in  historic  Carpenters  Hall  in  1821,  that  re- 
sulted in  the  incorporation  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Since  its  inception  this  institution  has  aiwayts  maintained  the  highest 
ideals  of  the  moral  obligation  and  the  professional  responsibilities 
devolving  upon  pharmacists,  in  the  discharge  of  their  duties  to  society. 
It  has  aimed  to  inculcate  in  its  students  and  members  a  code  of 
ethics  in  keeping  with  these  ideals. 
The  laws  enacted  by  Congress  and  the  various  Legislatures  for 
the  purpose  of  limiting  the  sale  and  dispensing  of  narcotic  drugs 
and  alcoholic  beverages  to  strictly  medicinal  uses,  have  placed 
additional  and  grave  responsibilities  upon  the  pharmaceutical 
profession  and  the  drug  trade.  Alcohol  is  the  most  important  raw 
material  of  the  drug  and  chemical  industries  and  of  necessity,  in 
one  way  or  another,  enters  into  practically  every  operation  of  the 
pharmacist.  It  is  the  opinion  of  this  College  that  the  dispensing 
of  all  potent  drugs,  including  narcotics  and  alcoholics,  should  be 
restricted  tq,  bona  fide  medicines  and  that  the  distribution  of  these 
should  be  exclusively  a  part  of  the  professional  duty  of  registered 
pharmacists. 
The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science  realizes  that 
with  its  amended  charter  and  wider  educational  scope  it  retains 
fully  its  position  of  responsibility  as  the  oldest  pharmaceutical 
society  in  America  and  as  a  leading  exponent  of  professional  phar- 
macy. Be  it  Resolved,  by  the  members  in  meeting  assembled  that 
they  call  upon  every  pharmacist  to  maintain  faith  with  the  Govern- 
ment and  to  demonstrate  by  his  strict  observance  of 'the  narcotic 
