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especially  expert  devote  all  of  their  energy  to  sanitary  police  work 
as  public  health  officers,  but  this  does  not  and  cannot  take  the  place 
of  the  constant  vigilance  and  cooperation  of  the  mass  of  the  medical 
profession.  Yet  because  in  previous  generations  the  relations  of  a 
physician  and  his  patient  were  entirely  personal,  and  because  com- 
pensation was  based  on  these  personal  relations,  the  public  health 
police  work  of  the  medical  profession,  done  for  the  sake  of  the 
community,  is  largely  unrecognized  and  entirely  uncompensated. 
In  other  words,  physicians  as  a  class  have  recognized  their  duty  to 
the  community  before  the  community  has  recognized  its  duty  to 
physicians.  Careful  reflection  will,  I  think,  sustain  the  conclusion 
that  in  this  situation  is  found  an  explanation  of  many  of  the  economic 
difficulties  of  the  medical  profession  at  present.  That  it  is  a  transitory 
condition  and  one  which  will  be  remedied  in  the  future  admits  of 
little  doubt. 
(To  be  continued.) 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
Annual  Meeting. 
The  annual  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was 
held  March  29,  191 5,  at  4  p.m..  in  the  Library  ;  the  President,  Howard 
B.  French,  presiding.    Twenty  members  were  present. 
The  minutes  of  the  quarterly  meeting  held  December  28,  1914, 
were  read  and  approved.  The  minutes  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  fot 
December,  1914;  January  and  February,  191 5,  were  read  by  the 
Registrar,  J.  S.  Beetem,  and  approved. 
President  French  then  delivered  his  Annual  Address,  containing  a 
summary  of  matters  of  general  interest  that  have  occurred  in  the 
institution  during  the  past  year.  Lpon  motion  of  George  M.  Beringer, 
it  was  ordered  that  the  address  be  entered  on  the  minutes,'  a  mime- 
ographic  copy  be  sent  to  every  member  of  the  College,  and  an  abstract 
be  published  in  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy  (  see  p,  238). 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  Publication. — In  the  abscence 
of  the  Chairman,  Professor  S.  P.  Sadtler,  the  report  was  read  by 
Air.  John  K.  Thum.  "  In  spite  of  the  financial  depression  during  the 
past  year  we  can  make  a  most  gratifying  showing  for  the  year.  The 
receipts  from  advertising,  subscriptions,  and  sales  of  back  numbers 
exceed  all  previous  records.    The  financial  statement  accompanying 
