486  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.    { ^ptimbefalgs0* 
PRACTICAL  PHARMACEUTICAL  LEGISLATION. 
By  H.  S.  Webster. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  EDUCATION,  EXAMINATION  AND  THE 
PRESENT  AND  FUTURE  STATUS  OF  PHARMACY. 
By  Alfred  B.  Husted. 
The  report  of  the  Committee  on  a  Model  Pharmacy  Law  was  read  by  Profes- 
sor Remington  for  the  Chairman.  In  it  is  contained  a  review  of  the  history 
of  pharmacy  laws,  with  a  summary  of  the  results  of  each  year's  work.  The 
report  consists  chiefly  of  the  results  of  letters  sent  to  various  associations,  etc., 
no  less  than  three  hundred  sources  of  information  having  been  utilized.  The 
report  closes  with  certain  recommendations  relative  to  what  ought  be  con- 
sidered in  a  model  pharmacy  law. 
At  the  third  session  of  the  Section  on  Education  and  Legislation,  the  officers 
of  the  Section  were  elected  and  installed,  viz.:  Chairman,  H.  B.  Lyons;  Sec- 
retary, C.  B.  Lowe. 
COMMERCIAL  SECTION. 
The  Commercial  Section  met  on  Tuesday  evening  at  8  o'clock.  The  Chair- 
man (Joseph  Jacobs)  opened  the  meeting  with  an  address  and  had  prepared 
several  interesting  papers.    In  the  one  on 
CHANGES  IN  THE  DRUG  BUSINESS, 
Mr.  Jacobs  indicated  the  changes  to  be  in  the  method  of  conducting  the  drug 
business  are  principally  the  decline  of  the  prescription  department,  the  intro- 
duction of  the  tablet  triturate,  the  manufacture  of  physicians'  private  recipes 
by  the  large  manufacturing  establishments,  the  preference  of  many  physicians 
for  the  ready-made  compounds,  and  the  absorption  by  the  department  stores 
of  the  line  of  goods  generally  known  as  toilet,  fancy  and  sundries. 
Mr.  Feil  read  a  paper  which  indicated  that  drug  stores  in  the  United  States 
are  in  numbers  on  the  decrease.  He  stated  that  in  1897  there  were  1,201  less 
drug  stores  than  in  the  preceding  year,  or  a  loss  of  3*2  per  cent.;  that  in  1898 
there  are  996  less  than  last  year,  a  loss  of  27  per  cent.,  and  that  in  1898  there 
are  2,197  less  stores  than  two  years  ago,  a  loss  of  5*9  percent.  Wholesale 
druggists  numbered,  in  1896,  296  ;  in  1897,  290,  and  in  1898,  284.  Thus,  it 
will  be  observed,  there  is  also  a  falling-off  in  the  number  of  wholesale 
druggists. 
L.  E.  Sayre  read  a  paper  on  "  The  Drug  Business  Before  the  Advent  of  the 
Price  Cutter." 
Resolutions  were  reported  by  C.  A.  Mayo,  in  which  protest  was  made  against 
the  unjust  discrimination  against  the  drug  trade  by  confining  the  war  revenue 
tax  to  medicines  and  perfumery  and  the  recommendation  made  that  the  Section 
memorialize  Congress,  requesting  that  the  war  revenue  tax  be  applied  also  to 
all  articles  of  a  proprietary  nature  put  up  in  packages  for  popular  use,  whether 
the  article  be  in  the  nature  of  a  food,  a  beverage,  a  cosmetic,  a  medicine  or  for 
use  in  the  arts.  The  resolutions  also  condemned  those  manufacturers  who 
have  taken  advantage  of  the  imposition  of  the  tax  to  raise  the  price  of  their 
preparations  greatly  in  advance  of  the  amount  of  the  tax  imposed  on  them, 
