AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
499 
of  the  East  River  Medical  Association,  the  restriction  of  the  Pharmacist 
to  a  single  dispensing  of  a  prescription  without  the  written  authority  of 
the  prescribing  physician  for  its  renewal,  is  neither  practicable  nor  within 
the  province  of  this  Association. 
Nevertheless  we  regard  the  indiscriminate  renewal  of  prescriptions, 
especially  when  intended  for  the  use  of  others  than  those  for  whom  they 
were  prescribed,  as  neither  just  for  the  physician  nor  to  the  patient, 
between  whom  we  stand  as  conservators  of  the  interests  of  both,  and  that 
such  abuses  should  be  discouraged  by  all  proper  means. 
Signed, 
F.  Stearns,  of  Detroit,  Mich. 
Ferris  Bringhurst,  of  Wilmington,  Del. 
Henry  W.  Lincoln,  of  Boston,  Mass. 
Prof.  J.  Faris  Moore,  of  Baltimore,  Md. 
John  H.  Pope,  of  New  Orleans,  La. 
On  motion,  the  resolutions  were  adopted  and  the  Committee  dis- 
charged, by  an  unanimous  vote. 
Prof.  Bedford,  of  New  York,  read  a  paper  in  reply  to  query 
18,  on  the  Morphia  strength  of  Commercial  Opium. 
The  same  gentleman  replied  to  query  29,  on  Syrup  of  Lactuca- 
rium,  both  of  which  were  accepted  and  referred. 
Prof.  Maisch  made  some  verbal  remarks  on  the  lactucarium 
from  American  species  of  lactuca,  and  exhibited  a  specimen  of 
the  product,  which  in  its  physical  characters  is  closely  allied  to 
the  commercial  drug. 
Henry  W.  Lincoln,  of  Boston,  offered  the  following  resolu- 
tion, which  was  carried  : — 
Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  by  the  Chair 
to  solicit  photographs  of  members  of  the  Association,  to  be  kept 
in  an  album  to  be  on  exhibition  at  our  annual  meetings. 
The  President  subsequently  announced  the  following  as  the 
committee  on  this  subject,  viz  : — Henry  W.  Lincoln,  of  Boston, 
P.  W.  Bedford,  of  New  York,  James  T.  Shinn,  of  Philadelphia, 
Louis  C.  Strehl,  of  Chicago,  G.  E.  Jeannot,  of  Louisville,  Ky. 
Then  adjourned  until  three  o'clock  this  afternoon. 
Sixth  Session. —  Thursday  Afternoon. 
President  Parrish,  presiding,  opened  the   meeting   at  3J 
o'clock.    The  minutes  were  read  and  adopted. 
On  motion  of  Ferris  Bringhurst;,  it  was 
