A"'cto°bUer;  lmm' }  The  I91 3  Meeting  of  Amer.  Phar.  Asso.  471 
"  At  this  time  we  should  do  no  less  than  emphatically  restate 
our  steadfast  opposition  to  nostrums  of  all  descriptions.  This 
Association  has  constantly  opposed  quackery  and  fraud  in  medicine 
and  should  pledge  its  cordial  support  to  the  efforts  which  the 
American  Medical  Association  is  making  to  overcome  these  twin 
evils." 
At  the  second  session  the  Association  authorized  the  appointment 
of  a  council  or  commission  on  proprietary  medicines  to  consist  of 
five  members  whose  duties  it  will  be  to  investigate  and  report  on 
various  proprietary  medicines  sold  in  the  United  States  and  their 
percentage  of  alcohol  and  of  habit- forming  drugs. 
The  members  of  this  council,  as  announced  at  the  final  meet- 
ing of  the  Association,  are  Thos.  F.  Main,  of  New  York,  to  serve 
for  one  year,  Jas.  H.  Beal,  of  Scio,  Ohio,  to  serve  for  two  years, 
M.  I.  Wilbert,  of  Washington,  D.  C,  to  serve  for  three  years, 
John  C.  Wallace,  of  Newcastle,  Pa.,  to  serve  for  four  years,  and 
Chas.  Caspari,  Jr.,  of  Baltimore,  Md.,  to  serve  for  five  years.  Jas. 
H.  Beal  was  elected  chairman. 
The  progress  in  pharmacy  as  recorded  by  this  meeting  is  largely 
reflected  by  the  creation  of  this  Commission  on  Proprietary  Remedies 
and  by  the  series  of  resolutions  endorsed  at  the 'final  session  of  the 
Association. 
To  the  disinterested  observer  who  was  limited  in  his  sources 
of  information  to  the  reflections  manifested  in  the  papers  read 
before  the  section  on  education  and  legislation  and  the  discussion 
at  the  joint  conference  of  this  section  with  members  of  boards  of 
pharmacy  and  teachers  in  pharmaceutical  schools,  it  would  appear 
that  from  an  educational  point  of  view  the  meeting  this  year  was 
particularly  uneventful.  This  fact  when  compared  with  the  very 
decided  progress  reported  in  connection  with  medical  education, 
at  the  meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association  at  Minneapolis 
in  June  is  to  be  deplored.  It  should  not  be  overlooked,  however, 
that  at  the  second  meeting  of  the  Section  on  Education  and  Legis- 
lation a  commitee  was  appointed  to  consider  the  standardization 
of  a  three-year  course  in  pharmacy.  Owing  to  lack  of  time  and  some 
doubt  as  to  what  was  expected  the  members  of  the  committee  were 
unable  to  formulate  a  report  and  on  motion  this  committee  was 
continued  to  report  next  year.  It  is  of  course  not  necessary  to 
add  that  the  members  of  this  committee  have  an  excellent  oppor- 
tunity to  call  attention  to  the  prospective  needs  of  pharmacy  and 
