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Pharmaceutical  Meeting. 
f  Aru.  Jour.  Piiarm. 
I  December,  1905. 
to  the  manufacturing  houses,  and  said  that  in  many  of  these  only 
one  or  two  registered  pharmacists  are  employed,  while  perhaps  ioo 
or  more  unlicensed  persons  are  employed.  As  to  the  sale  of 
poisons,  he  said  he  was  not  altogether  in  favor  of  druggists  having 
absolute  control  in  the  matter,  and  cited  the  sale  of  spirituous  liquors 
as  a  business  in  which  druggists  would  not  care  to  engage.  He 
thought  that  instead  of  making  an  effort  to  raise  prices,  an  effort 
should  be  made  to  limit  the  number  of  druggists.  Mr.  Gabell  said 
that  spirituous  liquors  would  hardly  come  under  the  head  of  poisons, 
and  that  this  question,  as  also  the  one  of  reducing  the  number  of 
druggists,  would  come  under  the  head  of  special  legislation.  Mr. 
Poley  said  that  it  was  not  the  aim  of  druggists  to  raise  prices  but  to 
restore  prices. 
Dr.  Thrush  then  considered  the  various  remarks  that  had  been 
made  in  connection  with  his  paper.  He  reiterated  the  contention 
made  in  his  paper  that  physiological  tests  should  have  been  intro- 
duced into  the  Pharmacopoeia,  in  reply  to  Mr.  Wilbert,  who  stated 
that  in  his  opinion  the  Committee  of  Revision  had  gone  to  extremes 
on  the  question  of  drug  assays,  and  showed  their  inadequacy  in  cer- 
tain respects,  as,  for  instance,  in  the  case  of  opium,  which  according 
to  the  assay  method  might  contain  the  required  percentage  of  mor- 
phine but  be  deficient  in  other  constituents  of  opium,  or  even  a  jug- 
gled product  containing  simply  the  required  amount  of  morphine. 
Mr.  Wilbert  followed  with  a  paper  relating  to  recent  advances  in 
pharmacy.    (See  page  583.) 
Mr.  Poley  desired  to  know  if  certain  proprietary  medicines  the 
formulae  for  which  had  recently  been  published  would  now  come 
under  the  class  of  ethical  preparations,  and  whether  they  would  now 
be  prescribed.  Mr.  Wilbert  said  that  the  proprietors  of  these  medi- 
cines now  belong  to  the  class  of  ethical  manufacturers. 
J.  T.  Harbold  expressed  the  view  that  the  proprietaries  are  truly 
the  preparations  which  should  be  stamped  out,  as  they  are  being 
forced  upon  the  people  by  being  prescribed. 
Florence  Yaple, 
Secretary  pro  tent. 
