Am.  Joub.  Pharjb.  ) 
Feb.  1,  1873.  j 
Pharmaceutical  Colleges,  etc. 
1.  Apothecaries  prescribing  across  the  counter. 
2.  Repeating  prescriptions  without  the  order  of  the  prescribing  physician. 
3.  Advertising  patent  medicines  by  show  cards,  bills,  &c. 
Prof.  J.  Faris  Moore  was  the  principal  speaker  for  the  pharmacists,  and 
met  the  different  charges  ably  and  forcibly ;  in  his  argument  he  stated  that  the 
physicians  were  responsible  for  many  of  the  existing  irregularities,  that  he  had 
a  list  of  not  less  than  seventeen  nostrums,  including  trade  deceptions,  which 
were  prescribed  by  leading  physicians  of  Baltimore,  from  Winslow's  Soothing 
Syrnp  to  Hubbell's  Elixir  of  Valerianate  of  Ammonia  ;  and  that  the  prescrip- 
tion business  could  not,  therefore,  be  conducted  without  keeping  quack  nos- 
trums. His  remarks  on  the  subject  of  popular  elixirs,  like  a  two-edged  sword, 
cut  on  both  sides. 
After  a  long  and  friendly  discussion,  the  following  resolutions  were  adopted : 
1st.  Resolved,  That,  although  it  is  perfectly  admissible  for  druggists  to  sell 
any  article  for  which  customers  may  ask,  whether  orally  or  by  prescription,  yet 
it  is  highly  objectionable  for  druggists  to  prescribe  for  customers  under  any 
circumstances  except  to  meet  an  emergency. 
2d.  Resolved,  That,  with  the  permission  of  the  Societies  we  represent,  this 
Committee  of  Conference  shall  solicit  the  passage  of  a  law  by  our  State  Legis- 
lature looking  to  the  regulation  of  the  sale  of  poisons  in  this  State. 
3d.  Resolved,  That  the  display  by  druggists  of  signs  calling  attention  to  the 
sale  of  patent  medicines  be  considered  disreputable. 
The  Conference,  which  is  to  meet  again  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  February,  is 
expected  to  be  prodnctive  of  much  good,  and  to  lead  to  a  better  understanding 
between  the  honorable  members  of  both  professions. 
Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy. — At  the  annnal  meeting  held  January 
14th,  the  following  officers  were  elected:  President,  J.  F.  Judge;  Recording 
Secretary,  F.  L.  Eaton  ;  Corresponding  Secretary,  E.  S.  Wayne ;  Treasurer, 
W.  H.  Negley ;  Trustees  for  short  term  (holding  over),  A.  J.  Tully,  Paul  Rein- 
lein,  Otto  Taxis,  John  G.  Fratz ;  Trustees  for  long  term,  J.  M.  Ayers,  J.  D. 
Wells,  H.  F.  Reum,  George  Eger. 
The  report  of  the  Recording  Secretary,  Mr.  J.  D.  Ayers,  gives  a  historical 
sketch  of  the  new  organization,  which  was  effected  on  the  20th  of  October, 
1871,  as  follows : 
"  During  this  winter  strenuous  efforts  were  made  by  the  College  to  procure 
the  passage  of  some  general  legislative  enactment  regulating  the  practice  of 
pharmacy,  but  they  were  unsuccessful.  The  matter  of  obtaining  a  special  act 
of  incorporation  for  our  College  was  also  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  Committee 
who,  on  the  2d  of  April,  reported  that  the  present  State  law  of  incorporation 
was  such  that  it  was  necessary,  in  order  to  obtain  the  legal  power  to  grant 
diplomas,  that  our  corporation  should  represent  an  actual  capital  of  not  less 
than  $5,000,  and,  at  a  meeting  held  on  the  16th  of  the  same  month,  it  was 
unanimously  resolved  to  reorganize  the  College  as  a  joint  stock  company, 
under  the  name  of  the  '  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy,  for  the  purpose  of,' 
&c.  The  resolution  provided  for  the  issue  of  certificates  of  stock,  and  all  other 
details  incident  to  the  carrying  out  of  the  spirit  of  the  resolution,  and  author- 
ized the  Board  of  Trustees  to  take  all  necessary  measures  to  that  end.  The 
Committee  appointed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  however,  made  the  discovery 
that  the  charter  of  the  old  Cincinnati  College  of  Pharmacy,  dated  March  23, 
1850,  was  still  in  force,  and  not  affected,  as  had  been  supposed,  by  more  recent 
