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This  is  a  subject  that  properly  should  be  taken  up  and  discussed 
at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  and 
also  at  the  meetings  of  the  several  State  and  local  societies  during 
the  coming  year ;  suffice  it  to  say  that  the  physician  has  demonstated 
himself  to  be  not  alone  willing,  but  even  anxious  to  learn  more  of 
official  or  standard  preparations  and  to  tear  himself  away  from  the 
domineering  influence  of  the  nostrum  maker. 
While  Boston  itself  and  the  several  exhibitions,  and  incidental 
social  features  that  were  held  in  connection  with  the  meeting  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  all  offered  attractions  that  served  to 
detract  from  the  attendance  on  the  several  section  meetings,  it  must 
be  said  for  the  pharmacists  who  were  in  attendance,  and  particularly 
for  the  delegates  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  that 
they  were  more  than  ordinarily  faithful  in  their  attendance  at  the 
meetings  of  the  Section  on  Pharmacologv.  This  faithfulness  was 
largely  due,  no  doubt,  to  the  interesting  programme  that  had  been 
provided  and  in  some  respects  also  to  the  spirited  discussions  that 
followed  the  reading  of  many  of  the  papers. 
Space  will  not  permit  that  we  reproduce  even  the  six-page  pro- 
gramme of  the  section  and  we  will  therefore  content  ourselves  with 
a  simple  enumeration  of  the  papers  that  were  more  directly  of  inter- 
est to  pharmacists,  in  the  order  in  which  they  were  read. 
Even  here  we  cannot  do  more  than  enumerate  the  titles  and  the 
reader  is  advised  to  peruse  the  several  papers  as  they  appear  in  the 
pages  of  The  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  Chairman's  address,  by  Thomas  F.  Reilly,  New  York  City, 
contained  much  that  is  of  immediate  interest  to  the  pharmacist, 
and  the  following  papers  and  reports  are  all  of  more  or  less  direct 
interest : 
"  The  Pharmacology  of  Digitalis,"  by  Robert  A.  Hatcher. 
"The  Pharmacology  of  Veratrum,"  by  H.  C.  Wood,  Jr. 
"Palatable  Medication,"  by  H.  B.  Sheffield. 
"  Prescribing  versus  Dispensing,"  by  M.  Howard  Fussell. 
"  The  Coming  Revision  of  the  U.S.P.,"  by  M.  I.  Wilbert. 
"  The  National  Formulary,"  by  C.  Lewis  Diehl. 
"Nostrums  and  Fraudulent  Schemes  for  Exploiting  Them,"  by 
Lyman  F.  Kebler. 
"  The  Limit  of  Proprietorship  in  Materia  Medica,"  by  S.  Solis 
Cohen. 
