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PJiarmaceutical  Meetings. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1905. 
evening,  January  ioth,  with  W.  L.  Cliffe,  member  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board,  in  the  chair.  The  meeting 
was  a  notable  one  in  several  particulars  and  will  probably  go  down 
in  history  as  one  of  the  most  important  meetings  of  its  kind  ever 
held  at  the  college,  certainly  in  recent  years. 
The  main  topic  chosen  for  consideration  was  that  of  the  ethical 
relation  of  pharmacists  and  physicians,  there  being  three  addresses 
along  this  line. 
Dr.  Henry  Beates,  Jr.,  President  of  the  State  Board  of  Medical 
Examiners,  was  the  first  speaker  and  read  a  paper  on  "A  Brief  Con- 
sideration  of  a  Few  Facts  Determining  the  Relationship  between 
the  Science  and  Art  of  Pharmacy  and  the  Science  and  Art  of 
Medicine."    (See  February  number,  page  51.) 
Prof.  John  H.  Musser,  President  of  the  American  Medical  Associa- 
tion, took  for  his  theme  the  following :  "  A  Tendency  in  Medicine 
and  its  Influence  on  Pharmacy."    (See  February  issue,  page  58.) 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  Ph.M.,  followed  with  a  paper  "  On  the  Evident  Need 
of  a  Profession  of  Pharmacy."    (See  February  number,  page  64.) 
A  number  of  physicians  and  pharmacists,  both  in  Philadelphia 
and  elsewhere,  had  been  invited  to  take  part  in  the  discussion,  and 
Prof.  Henry  Kraemer,  Secretary  of  the  Committee  on  Pharmaceuti- 
cal Meetings,  read  letters  from  the  following,  regretting  their  inability 
either  to  be  present  or  to  send  a  communication :  Dr.  William  Osier, 
Dr.  J.  C.  Wilson,  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood,  Dr.  Oliver  T.  Osborne,  Dr.  H. 
A.  Hare,  Dr.  James  Tyson  and  Walter  A.  Rumsey. 
The  general  discussion  was  participated  in  by  the  following :  Dr. 
Beates,  Warren  H.  Poley,  Prof.  Joseph  P.  Remington,  Dr.  Clayton 
M.  Thrush,  M.  I.  Wilbert  and  George  M.  Beringer.  (See  February 
number,  page  70.) 
Dr.  Thrush  said  that  he  had  had  eight  years  experience  as  a 
pharmacist,  and  that  he  believed  the  prerequisite  law  for  pharma- 
cists should  be  enacted.  Then  referring  to  the  shortcomings  of 
physicians  and  pharmacists,  he  said  that  some  pharmacists  will  sub- 
stitute and  that  some  physicians  will  order  all  of  the  new  remedies 
that  come  out ;  sometimes  they  order  only  one  prescription  and  the 
rest  of  the  preparation  is  dead  stock.  He  said  that  he  had  recently 
examined  1,000  prescriptions  from  leading  stores  of  this  city,  and 
that  only  two  of  them  were  in  the  metric  system,  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  this  system  is  taught  both  in  schools  of  medicine 
