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Pk a r maceutica I  A ssocia tion. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
April,  1899. 
dies  to  disease,  resulting  in  the  drug  store  of  the  future  becoming  one  of  the 
most  helpful,  economic,  time-saving  and  reliable  aids  to  modern  progress." 
On  another  page  are  submitted  "some  of  the  answers  received,  clearly  exhibit- 
ing the  need  of  great  care  in  granting  certificates  of  registration  in  pharmacy 
in  this  Commonwealth."  These  answers  used  to  appear  ludicrous,  but  we  are 
inclined  to  look  upon  this  matter  more  seriously,  and  wonder  what  is  the  use 
of  making  an  advance  in  requirements  of  candidates,  when  their  answers  are  as 
bad  as  they  were  thirteen  years  ago.  Surely  this  indicates  that  applicants  for 
apprenticeship  ought  to  be  examined  first  and  the  proficient  only  receive  certi- 
ficates indicating  that  they  have  the  mental  calibre  for  learning  the  drug  busi- 
ness. When  this  board  and  other  boards  begin  at  the  foundation,  then  they 
will  not  receive  the  astounding  answers,  and  an  advance  in  requirements  will 
accomplish  all  that  is  claimed. 
PENNSYLVANIA  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  problem  of  framing  practical  laws  for  regulating  the  sale  of  poisons  is 
doubtless  one  of  the  most  difficult  that  our  legislators  encounter. 
Too  frequently  the  ethics  of  the  question  causes  the  production  of  a  theoretical 
rather  than  a  practical  measure,  with  the  result  that  no  good  is  accomplished. 
The  Committee  on  Legislation  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, of  which  Wm.  L.  Cliffe  is  Chairman,  has  proposed  a  rational  and  intelli- 
gent amendment  to  the  proposed  Senate  Bill  No.  18.  This  amended  bill  will 
accomplish  what  is  practically  desired  for  the  protection  of  the  profession  in- 
volved as  well  as  the  public.  The  position  of  the  Philadelphia  Association  of 
Retail  Druggists  on  the  measure  originally  introduced  is  seen  in  the  resolu- 
tions passed  at  its  last  meeting  and  which  are  given  in  another  part  of  this 
Journal.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  bill  as  amended  by  the  Legislative 
Committee  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association: 
Fii,e  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
No.  153.  Session  of  1899. 
As  amended  by  the  Legislative  Committee  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical 
Association . 
AN  ACT 
To  regulate  the  sale  and  use  of  opium,  morphine,  codeine,  cocaine  and  their 
various  salts  or  chloral,  and  to  prevent  the  injurious  use  of  same. 
Section  r.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania  in  General  Assembly  met  and  is  hereby  en- 
acted by  the  authority  of  the  same  that  any  registered  druggist  or  apothecary, 
or  any  manufacturer  of  opium,  morphine,  codeine,  cocaine  or  their  various 
salts  or  chloral  may  sell  the  same  to  any  registered  druggist  or  apothecary,  or 
to  any  legally  qualified  and  authorized  practitioner  of  medicine,  surgery  or 
obstetrics,  human,  dental  or  veterinary.  Any  druggist  or  apothecary  may  sell 
or  deliver  to  any  person  other  than  such  practitioner  such  opium,  morphine, 
codeine,  cocaine  or  their  various  salts  or  chloral  upon  and  only  upon  first  re- 
ceiving an  order  or  prescription  for  the  same,  signed  by  any  such  practitioner, 
stating  clearly  what  quantity  or  quantities,  and  at  what  time  or  times  the  same 
shall  be  sold  or  delivered  and  the  person  for  whose  use  the  same  is  ordered  or 
