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Pharmacy  and  Pharmacists. 
5  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  February,  1921. 
recognition,  nor  place  sufficient  value  on  our  accomplishments  and 
achievements. 
Commerce  of  the  past  and  present  has  been  largely  developed 
due  to  the  search  for  drugs ;  the  materia  medica  has  been  improved, 
and  gives  physicians  assurance  of  results  by  undervalued — to  some 
extent  uncredited — study  and  investigations  of  pharmacists.  Only 
recently  a  place  was  given  in  New  York  University  Hall  of  Fame 
to  another  for  the  discovery  of  ether  as  an  anesthetic  that  should 
have  been  accorded  to  the  physician-pharmacist,  Dr.  Crawford  W. 
Long.  The  research  work  of  Dr.  Edward  Kremers  and  co-laborers 
has  great  possibilities ;  the  investigations  of  Professor  J.  U.  Lloyd 
have  received  rightful  recognition  and  place  in  colloidal  chemistry, 
but  the  record  should  be  kept  straight.  An  exploration  in  the  in- 
terest of  science  has  been  made  possible  by  H.  K.  Mulford  Company, 
under  the  direction  of  Dr.  H.  H.  Rusby,  who  has  heretofore 
searched  the  wilds  of  South  America,  and  with  the  purpose  of  serv- 
ing humanity. 
All  of  these  preliminary  references— many  of  them  of  very 
much  greater  import  than  the  subject  I  have  chosen — have  the 
purpose  of  bringing  in  the  main  topic  of  the  paper  in  which  some 
of  the  connections  of  pharmacy  with  the  industries  are  shown,  and 
incidentally  to  point  out  wherein  some  of  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  afford  opportunities  for 
papers  that  will  extend  our  knowledge  and  usefulness  to  the  world. 
The  thought  is  not  new,  but  sometimes  the  opportunities  for  apply- 
ing it  are  overlooked. 
The  paper  referred  to  was  presented  by  Charles  Mohr,  for 
about  thirty  years  a  member  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, now  deceased,  a  friend  and  correspondent  of  the  late  Pro- 
fessor John  M.  Maisch,  on  Vegetation  of  Louisiana  and  Adjoin- 
ing States.  The  blending  in  this  section  of  the  country  of  southern 
and  northern  vegetation  is  sufficient  inference  that  a  large  number 
and  variety  of  plants  were  considered  in  his  paper,  comparatively 
few  of  them  are  of  great  medicinal  importance,  the  greater  portion 
dealt  with  the  pines,  in  which  the  author  was  particularly  interested, 
being  employed  by  the  United  States  Government  to  secure  all  avail- 
able information  thereto.  He  went  somewhat  into  details  of  collec- 
tion and  yield  of  the  turpentine,  and  also  the  manufacture  of  sugar 
from  cane.    Items  of  lesser  importance  were  the  citrus  fruits,  cam- 
