382  Sixty-fourth  Annual  Session  A.  M.  Assq.[k\^£  ggf" 
cent,  of  the  manuscript  of  the  Ninth  Revision  is  nearly  finished  and  the 
work  of  getting  it  ready  for  the  press  will  soon  begin. 
"  The  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  been  very  active 
through  its  branch  organizations,  and  its  own  legislative  committees  in  ad- 
vancing legislation  tending  to  control  the  extensive  use  of  narcotics  and  in 
preventing  as  far  as  possible  the  further  development  of  evil  practices  of 
unworthy  members  of  both  professions.  It  is  sincerely  hoped  that  our 
national  bodies  will  continue  to  work  in  the  future  on  lines  which  will  draw 
both  together  and  ignoring  small  and  unimportant  details  and  differences, 
will  stand  shoulder  to  shoulder  in  advancing  legislation  which  shall  secure 
to  suffering  humanity  the  greatest  uplift  that  is  possible." 
This  address  was  well  received  by  the  members  of  the  Section, 
and  in  further  discussing  the  scope  of  the  Pharmacopceia,  Dr. 
Torald  Sollmann,  of  Cleveland,  offered  the  following  preamble  and 
resolution : 
"  Whereas,  It  is  desirable  that  the  articles  officialized  by  the  Pharma- 
copceia of  the  United  States  should  reflect  the  progress  of  therapeutics ;  and 
"  Whereas,  Therefore  the  inclusion  of  articles  in  the  Pharmacopceia 
now  in  progress  of  revision  should  be  determined  by  their  therapeutic 
merit ;  and 
"  Whereas,  The  decision  of  therapeutic  questions  should  logically  and 
in  fairness  be  left  mainly  to  the  medical  members  of  the  Revision  Com- 
mittee ;  therefore,  be  it 
"Resolved,  That  the  section  request  the  House  of  Delegates  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  to  urge  on  the  Committee  of  Revision  of  the 
Pharmacopceia  of  the  United  States  that  the  selection  of  articles  to  be 
included  be  left  to  the  Committee  on  Scope,  in  which  the  medical  profession 
has  a  majority  representation,  rather  than  to  the  Executive  Committee, 
which  represents  mainly  the  pharmaceutical  profession,  and  which  has 
overridden  half  the  changes  advocated  by  the  Committee  on  Scope." 
This  resolution  was  discussed  at  some  length  and  was  finally 
adopted,  referred  to  the  House  of  Delegates,  and  was  later  con- 
curred in  by  that  body. 
The  address  of  the  Chairman  of  the  Section,  Dr.  Ray  L.  Wilbur, 
of  San  Francisco,  California,  was  devoted  to  a  practical  discussion 
on  the  teaching  of  therapeutics,  and  a  paper  by  Torald  Sollmann, 
of  Cleveland,  entitled  ''Yesterday,  To-day  and  To-morrow:  the 
Activities  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry,"  discussed 
the  aim  of  the  Council  in  bringing  about  a  necessary  change  in  the 
attitude  of  physicians  toward  materia  medica  products  generally. 
He  also  referred  to  the  new  book  on  useful  remedies  to  be  pub- 
