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VARIETIES. 
are  at  all  times  liable  to  be  picked  up  in  the  street  and  hauled  off  to  court 
to  give  scientific  opinions  in  cases  in  which  we  have  not  the  slightest  in- 
terest, and  from  the  parties  engaged  in  which  we  receive  no  remuneration 
whatever  for  our  detention  and  trouble.  If  there  is  a  correct  principle 
among  men,  it  is  that  which  teaches  that  the  laborer  is  worthy  of  his  hire. 
If  scientific  men  are  necessary  in  courts  of  justice,  then  they  are  as  much 
entitled  to  pay  for  their  services  as  are  the  lawyers  who  question  them,  and 
our  laws  should  be  so  amended  as  to  compel  parties  concerned  to  pay  them. 
We  have  always  felt  rebellious  against  this  system  of  extortion  of  gratuitous 
services  from  medical  men — for  it  is  the  medical  man  who  is  mostly  preyed 
on — and  we  earnestly  believe  that  if  the  prevalent  principle  were  tested 
before  our  higher  courts,  the  matter  would  be  decided  in  our  favor.  At  the 
very  moment  that  we  write,  a  case  in  point  occurs  to  demonstrate  the 
absurdity  and  injustice  of  the  present  practice.  A  woman  is  found  dead  ; 
a  physician  is  called  in  to  make  a  post-mortem  examination  ;  he  makes  it, 
and  his  opinion  is  carried  before  the  court  because  another  party  is  accused 
of  having  caused  the  death.  But  other  medical  testimony — in  the  shape  of 
opinion — is  deemed  necessary,  and  another  physician  is  stopped  from  his 
business — actually  detained  from  doing  his  duty  to  himself  and  his  patrons — 
and  hauled  off  to  the  court  to  give  these  opinions,  and  with  no  earthly  pros- 
pect of  being  paid  one  dime  for  his  detention  and  services.  Is  there  any 
show  of  justice  in  this  ?  No !  medical  men  are  as  liberal  in  the  gratuitous 
dispensation  of  their  services  as  any  men  living,  and  it  is  their  pride  to  be 
so  ;  but  there  is  reason  in  all  things,  and  we  are  for  rebellion  against  this 
abuse  of  our  services  and  our  good  nature. — -New  Orleans  Hospital  Gazette. 
AMERICAN  PHARMACEUTICAL  ASSOCIATION. 
The  Seventh  Annual  Meeting  of  the  "  American  Pharmaceutical  Association," 
will  be  held  in  the  city  of  Washington,  D.  C,  on  Third  day,  (Tuesday)  the 
14th  day  of  September  next,  at  3  o'clock,  P.  M. 
The  objects  of  the  Association  and  the  conditions  of  membership  are  explained 
in  the  following  extracts  from  the  Constitution. 
Article  I. 
This  Association  shall  be  called  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
Its  aim  shall  be  to  unite  the  educated  and  reputable  Pharmaceutists  and  Drug- 
gists of  the  United  States  in  the  following  objects; 
1st.  To  improve  and  regulate  the  drug  market,  by  preventing  the  importation 
of  inferior,  adulterated,  or  deteriorated  drugs,  and  by  detecting  and  exposing 
home  adulteration.  .        ,  ,     ,  . 
2d.  To  establish  the  relations  between  druggists,  pharmaceutists,  physicians, 
and  the  people  at  large,  upon  just  principles,  which  shall  promote  the  public 
welfare  and  tend  to  mutual  strength  and  advantage. 
3d   To  improve  the  science  and  the  art  of  Pharmacy,  by  diffusing  scientific 
knowledge  among  apothecaries  and  druggists,  fostering  pharmaceutical  litera 
ture  developing  talent,  stimulating  discovery  and  invention,  and  encouraging 
home  production  and  manufacture  in  the  several  departments  of  the  drug  busi- 
