Am.  Jour.  Phariu.  ) 
December,  1911.  J 
Pro'gress  in  Pharmacy. 
567 
istry  of  the  American  Medical  Association  on  the  progress  of 
pharmacy  in  these  United  States  is  well  illustrated  by  the  nature 
and  the  importance  of  the  references  to  the  work  of  that  Council 
as  reported  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  American  pharmacist  who  does  not  keep  in  touch  with  the 
progress  of  this  work  is  missing  an  opportunity  to  prepare  for 
the  new  pharmacy  which  is  bound  to  result  from  the  time  and 
thought  that  is  being  devoted  to  materia  medica  and  therapeutics 
by  the  leading  minds  m  medicine  today.  The  repeated  evidence 
that  there  is  need  for  efficient  control  of  all  important  active  medi- 
caments will,  in  time  at  least,  lead  to  the  recognition  that  this  con- 
trol can  best  be  exercised  at  the  time  of  dispensing  because  no 
matter  how  efficient  an  article  may  have  been  when  made,  if  deteri- 
orated, it  may  be  not  alone  worthless  but  even  harmful. 
No  one  agency,  in  this  or  any  other  country,  is  doing  more  to  call 
attention  to  the  need  for  the  efficient  control  of  medicines  and  the 
desirability  of  developing  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  possibilities 
as  well  as  the  limitations  of  various  drugs  than  is  the  Council  on 
Pharmacy  and  Chemistry,  and  the  details  of  the  work  referred  to 
in  the  following  pages  will  be  found  well  worth  studying  at  length 
in  the  original. 
The  American  Druggist  for  many  years  issued  twice  a  month, 
appears  in  October  in  an  enlarged  form  with  the  announcement 
that  in  future  it  will  be  issued  as  a  monthly. 
New  Yorker  Deutscher  Apotheker  Verein. — This  widely 
known  and  in  many  .ways  unique  organization  celebrated  its  Six- 
tieth Anniversary  on  September  28,  191 1,  under  peculiarly  pleasing 
circumstances.  The  ''Kommers"  held  on  that  date  was  attended  by 
one  of  its  founders  and  now  honorary  president,  the  venerable  Gus- 
tav  Ramsperger,  also  by  representatives  of  the  medical  as  well  as 
pharmaceutical  professions  who  felicitated  the  organization  on  its 
long  and  honorable  career. 
N.  A.  R.  D. — The  thirteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  National 
Association  of  Retail  Druggists  held  at  Niagara  Falls  on  Septem- 
ber II  to  14,  191 1,  was  well  attended  and  unusually  harmonious 
for  an  association  which  endeavors  to  safeguard  the  business  inter- 
ests of  so  large  a  number  of  members  in  different  sections  of  the 
country.  The  financial  condition  of  the  Association  is  more  satis- 
factory than  at  any  period  in  its  history,  the  Treasurer  reporting 
the  comfortable  surplus  of  $14,000  in  cash  on  hand. 
