482  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  }A™'cSber,^9Sm* 
The  portion  of  this  letter  referring  more  directly  to  the  work  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  was  as  follows  : — 
"  If  I  may  assume  to  speak  for  clinical  therapeutics  to  the  repre- 
sentatives of  pharmacy,  I  would  say: — 
"  Gentlemen :  I  depend  on  you  in  my  efforts  to  help  my  patients, 
to  get  them  well.  I  depend  on  your  knowledge,  your  skill,  your 
science,  your  enterprise,  but  above  all  upon  your  fidelity.  I  trust 
you,  you  are  my  armor  bearers  as  I  fight  disease.  If  my  spear  is 
dull,  my  bowstring  slack,  my  arrows  unfeathered,  my  sword  rusty, 
my  shield  pierced,  death  awaits  them  that  I  would  protect.  But 
give  me  weapons  that  I  can  depend  upon  and  I  go  into  battle  hope- 
fully, with  the  determination  to  conquer. 
"  The  efforts  that  you  and  your  co-workers  are  making  to  restore 
pharmacy  to  the  rank  of  the  learned  professions  and  to  advance  the 
status  of  the  pharmacist  have  my  earnest  sympathy  and  my  sincere 
co-operation. 
"  Let  us  stand  together  for  clean  medicine  and  upright  pharmacy  ; 
let  us  oppose  quackery,  fraud  and  pretense  within  as  well  as  without 
our  ranks.  Let  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  join  the 
American  Medical  Association  in  its  determination  that  the  errors 
of  the  past  shall  be  corrected,  that  the  interests  of  the  people,  the 
interests  of  science  shall  be  our  own  chief  interests ;  and  that  all 
selfish  obstructionists  shall  be  silenced  or  shamed. 
"  Then  we  can  confidently  face  the  future,  sure  of  what  is  better 
than  the  mere  achievement  of  success — the  deserving  of  it." 
The  reading  of  this  communication  was  followed  by  the  report 
of  the  delegates  from  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  to 
the  meeting  of  the  Section  of  Pharmacology  and  Therapeutics  of 
the  American  Medical  Association. 
The  election  of  officers  resulted  in  the  selection  of  the  following  : — 
President,  Leo  Eliel,  South  Bend,  Ind.;  First  Vice-president,  Wm. 
Mittelbach,  Boonville,  Mo.;  Second  Vice-president,  C.  S.  N.  Hall- 
berg,  Chicago,  III;  Third  Vice-president,  Thomas  P.  Cook,  New 
York,  N.  Y.;  General  Secretary,  Charles  Caspari,  Jr.,  Baltimore, 
Md.;  Treasurer,  S.  A.  D.  Sheppard,  Boston,  Mass.;  Reporter  on  the 
progress  of  pharmacy,  C.  Lewis  Diehl,  Louisville,  Ky.  Members 
of  the  Council :  Joseph  L.  Lemberger,  Lebanon,  Pa.;  Joseph  P. 
Remington,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Charles  E.  Dohme,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Subsequently  I.  A.    Keith,  of  Preston,  S.  D.,  was  elected  a 
