Am.  Jour.  Pharnu. 
June,  1895. 
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is  unfortunate  that  the  latter  often,  though  unwittingly  serves  as  a  cat's  paw  for 
the  patent-medicine  manufacturer  by  prescribing  his  remedies.  What  he  will 
do  when  every  druggist  turns  doctor  is  too  hard  a  question  for  us  to  answer, 
as  we  do  not  possess  the  necessary  faculty  of  seeing  into  the  future,  but  we 
suggest  that  he  keep  out  of  the  clutches  of  the  patent-medicine  manufacturer 
and  that  he  confine  himself  to  the  legitimate  practice  of  medicine. 
THE  AMERICAN  PHARMACY  FAIR. 
The  American  Pharmacy  Fair  was  held  at  Boston,  from  the  ist  to  the  25th  of 
May.  It  has  been  announced  as  the  first  of  the  kind  in  America.  While  it  was 
not  the  first  pharmaceutical  exhibition  held  in  this  country,  we  agree  that  it 
was  the  first  of  its  kind. 
It  failed  in  a  few  important  particulars  to  represent  American  pharmacy.  In 
the  first  place  there  was  but  one  retail  drug  store  exhibited,  and  that  was  by  a 
"  store-fixture  "  firm  in  the  interest  of  the  fixtures,  so  that  real  pharmacy  may 
be  said  to  have  been  conspicuous  by  its  absence. 
There  were  very  few  exhibits  of  crude  drugs  or  chemicals. 
A  few  firms  exhibited  manufactured  pharmaceutical  products,  and  these 
products  were  not  of  the  kind  to  be  of  educational  value,  many  of  them  being 
simply  for  this  or  that  disease. 
The  most  creditable  exhibit  was  that  of  the  Massachusetts  College  of  Phar- 
macy, which  displayed  a  sample  of  every  preparation  in  the  U.  S.  Pharma- 
copoeia and  the  National  Formulary — over  1,600  in  all  ;  these  were  made  by 
students  of  the  Institution. 
Had  the  fakir  and  the  nostrum-manufacturer  been  excluded,  the  omissions 
and  shortcomings  might  have  been  overlooked,  but  with  some  one  offering  you 
a  cure  at  every  turn  for  every  disease,  from  dyspepsia  to  delirium,  it  became 
unbearable.  We  regret  that  the  words  "  American  Pharmacy  "  were  associated 
with  the  undertaking,  and  we  are  not  surprised  to  learn  that  its  doors  were 
closed  ten  days  before  the  time  advertised  for  this  to  take  place.  Lack  of 
funds  was  given  as  the  immediate  cause  of  the  disaster. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Missouri  Botanical  Garden.  Sixth  Annual  Report.  St.  Louis,  Mo. 
1895. 
Much  valuable  space  is  gained  for  more  scientific  matters  in  the  Sixth  Annual 
Report  by  the  omission  of  the  section  consisting  of  ' '  Anniversary  Publica- 
tions," comprising  the  annual  flower  sermon  and  the  proceedings  at  the  two 
annual  banquets  ;  the  report  of  the  Director,  Dr.  William  Trelease,  containing 
all  that  it  is  considered  necessary  to  state  concerning  these  matters  which  are 
of  local  or  temporary  interest. 
In  addition  to  the  reports  of  the  officers  of  the  Board  and  the  Director,  the 
volume  contains  100  pages  devoted  to  the  following  scientific  papers  : 
Revision  of  the  North  American  Species  of  Sagittaria  and  Lophotocarpus, 
by  Jared  G.  Smith. 
Leitneria  Floridana,  by  William  Trelease. 
Studies  on  the  Dissemination  and  Leaf  Reflexion  of  Yucca  aloifolia  and 
other  species,  by  Herbert  J.  Webber. 
