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ceutical  manufactories  of  Detroit  were  the  pride  of  the  city,  and  as  colaborers  of 
these  institutions  the  members  of  the  association  were  welcomed.  He  spoke 
of  the  advancement  of  pharmacy  from  the  time  when  the  virtue  of  medicines 
seemed  to  be  governed  by  their  quantity  and  bitterness,  until  now  the  little 
tasteless  capsule  has  no  terror  for  the  patient  and  is  taken  with  as  little  concern 
as  soda  water  at  the  soda  fountain.  The  association  was  welcomed  from  the 
heart  of  humanity.  No  man  so  welcome  as  the  physician  who  strives  to  allevi- 
ate and  remove  pain,  but  the  labors  of  the  physician  would  be  futile  if  the 
high  calling  of  the  pharmacist  were  not  discharged  with  a  sense  of  high  duty. 
Vice-president  Alexander  responded  briefly,  accepting  the  hospitalities  ten- 
dered, and  Professor  Judge  was  then  requested  to  read  the  President's  annual 
address. 
The  address  is  very  lengthy  and  contains  a  number  of  suggestions  and  pro- 
positions which  would  form  ample  material  for  reflection  and  discussion  at  the 
annual  meetings.  In  the  introductory  portion  the  President  suggests  whether 
full  membership  should  not  be  restricted  to  "actual  apothecaries,  personally  en- 
gaged in  dispensing  medicines  ;"  and  he  expresses  the  conviction  that  the  asso- 
ciation had  been  "  designed  by  its  founders.  ...  to  be  made  up  of  apothecaries 
only."  The  latter  is  evidently  a  mistake;  for  at  the  organization  of  the 
association  in  1852  men  were  present  who  were  not  carrying  on  the  apothecary's 
business,  and  the  constitution  then  adopted  distinctly  admits  to  membership 
''all  pharmacists  and  druggists  who  etc."  Moreover  on  motion  of  one  of  the 
original  members,  Mr.  S.  M.  Colcord,  at  the  meeting  in  1855  the  words  were 
introduced  ''whether  in  business  on  his  own  account,  retired  from  business,  or 
employed  by  another;"  and  in  1867  the  Business  Committee,  Dr.  Squibb  chair- 
man, brought  in  an  amendment  which  was  unanimously  adopted,  making  elig- 
ible those  teachers  of  pharmacy,  chemistry  and  botany,  who  may  be  specially  in- 
terested in  pharmacy  and  materia  medica."  These  are  facts  on  record  in  the 
published  proceedings  for  the  years  named,  and  express  the  views  held  by  the 
founders  and  the  early  members  of  the  association. 
The  various  problems  mentioned,  and  comments  made  by  the  President  may 
be  briefly  stated  as  follows  : 
1.  Members  should  encourage  apprentices  in  obtaining  pharmaceutical  edu- 
cation and  in  making  pharmaceutical  preparations. 
2.  The  influence  of  modern  pharmaceutical  factories  is  sketched. 
3.  The  drift  of  the  times  points  to  the  necessity  of  the  apothecary  of  the 
future  graduating  in  medicine  as  well  as  in  pharmacy. 
4.  Can  pharmacists  pay  a  percentage  to  physicians  for  prescription  favors  ? 
5.  The  prescribing,  under  assumed  names,  of  mixtures,  keeping  the  formulas 
secret,  is  not  consistent  with  pharmaceutical  ethics,  and  is  neither  elevating 
nor  dignified  in  either  participant. 
6.  Legislative  action  requiring  the  label  of  each  patent  medicine  to  plainly 
indicate  the  composition. 
7.  Counter  prescribing  considering  the  right  of  an  individual  to  seZ/-medica- 
tion,  and  the  qualification  of  the  recommender. 
8.  Patents  for  improvements  on  apparatus  applicable  to  the  preparation  of 
pharmaceuticals  and  chemicals. 
9.  Patents  for  synthetical  processes  for  medicinal  agents. 
10.  The  sale  of  patented,  trade-marked  or  copyrighted  preparations. 
