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PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  first  of  the  pharmaceutical  meetings  of  the  Philadelphia  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  for  the  season  of  1906-07,  was  held  on  the 
evening  of  Tuesday,  October  16,  1906,  as  a  joint  meeting  with  the 
Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
One  of  the  members  present  aptly  paraphrased  this  meeting  as 
having  been  helpful,  hopeful  and  inspiring,  and  in  doing  so  expressed 
the  feelings  of  pretty  much  every  retail  pharmacist  present.  The 
meeting  certainly  was  helpful  in  so  far  that  the  discussion  which  was 
elicited  suggested  ample  ways  and  means  for  bringing  about  the 
objects  most  to  be  desired.  The  meeting  was  hopeful  because  it 
evidenced  the  well-known  fact  that  American  pharmacists  are  de- 
sirous of  being  classed  as  law-abiding  citizens  and  are  anxious  to 
meet  their  obligations  to  the  members  of  the  community.  Above 
all,  however,  this  first  pharmaceutical  meeting  was  inspiring  in  that 
it  fully  demonstrated  that  pharmacy,  in  this  as  well  as  in  other 
countries,  is  not  devoid  of  votaries  with  force  of  character,  willing 
to  assert  their  rights,  as  they  see  them,  and  able  to  demand  respect 
by  respecting  themselves. 
While  it  is  practically  impossible  to  adequately  portray  the  spirit 
that  was  evidenced  at  this  meeting,  some  faint  conception  of  the 
earnestness  and  ardor  that  were  manifested  in  the  course  of  the  dis- 
cussion may  be  gleaned  from  the  following  detailed  report. 
The  meeting  was  called  to  order  by  Mr.  Howard  B.  French,  the 
president  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  who,  after  some 
few  well  chosen  preliminary  remarks,  introduced  Dr.  Lawrence  F. 
Flick,  Director  of  the  Phipps  Institute,  Philadelphia,  who  took  as  the 
direct  object  of  his  remarks,  *'  Rest  and  Recreation  as  a  Physical 
Necessity."  Dr.  Flick  compared  the  human  organism  to  a  machine 
in  that  it  possessed  but  limited  qualities  of  endurance,  and  pointed 
out  the  need  of  remembering  that  certain  mechanical,  physiological, 
and  chemical  processes  that  are  constantly  going  on  in  our  bodies, 
and  which  are  essential  to  sustain  life,  all  consume  energy. 
He  dwelt  at  some  length  on  the  necessity  of  keeping  the  human 
body  in  such  a  state  of  repair  as  to  enable  it  to  withstand  the  con- 
tinuous attack  of  pathogenic  micro-organisms  and  of  other  disease- 
producing  factors.  A  machine  is  destroyed  in  proportion  to  the  way 
it  is  used  or  abused,  and  the  human  organism  may,  in  the  same  way, 
