552  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^SovS^SSt' 
will  or  can  derive  the  same  amount  of  material  or  moral  benefit 
from  a  proper  appreciation  and  support  of  the  work  undertaken  by 
this  Council. 
For  many  years  pharmacists  have  complained  that  their  prescrip- 
tion work  is  decreasing  in  amount  and  in  profit,  and  that  physicians 
are  either  dispensing  their  own  medicines  or  are  confining  them- 
selves more  and  more  to  prescribing  ready-made  proprietary  prep- 
arations, the  dispensing  of  which  left  little  or  no  profit  to  the 
pharmacist. 
Despite  the  marked  changes  that  have  been  brought  about  in  the 
practice  of  pharmacy  itself,  comparatively  few  of  its  votaries  have 
been  impressed  by  the  fact  that  the  reduction  in  the  number  of 
prescriptions,  the  increase  in  the  use  of  proprietary  medicines,  and 
the  corresponding  decrease  in  the  profitableness  of  the  prescriptions 
dispensed  are  all  due  largely,  if  not  entirely,  to  their  own  lack  of 
interest  in  the  more  professional  side  of  their  vocation,  and  to  the 
accompanying  lack  of  practical  knowledge  of  the  needs  and  the 
wants  of  medical  men. 
To  give  retail  pharmacists  an  opportunity  of  becoming  more  thor- 
oughly acquainted  with  the  objects,  needs,  wants  and  accomplish- 
ments of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American 
Medical  Association,  it  is  proposed  to  devote  the  November  meeting 
of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation to  the  discussion  of  various  phases  of: — 
The  Work  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the 
American  Medical  Association. 
The  November  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  Branch  will  be  held 
in  the  lower  hall  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  northeast  corner  of 
Thirteenth  and  Locust  Streets,  on  the  evening  of  Tuesday,  Novem- 
ber 6,  1906,  and  the  discussion  will  be  opened  by  the  following 
communications : — 
Prof.  S.  P.  Sadtler :  The  Work  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and 
Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
Dr.  Alfred  Stengel :  The  Endorsement  of  the  Work  of  the  Council 
by  Medical  Practitioners. 
Prof.  Charles  H.  La  Wall :  The  Effect  of  Publicity  on  the  Standing 
and  the  Use  of  Nostrums. 
Prof.  W.  A.  Puckner  :  The  Needs  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and 
Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
