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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      March,  1909. 
regarding  many  other  drugs,  chemicals  and  galenical  preparations 
which  have  come  into  prominence  during  the  past  twelve  months 
or  more. 
Codex  Notes  is  the  title  applied  by  A.  D.  Watson  to  a  collection 
of  comments  on  the  British  Pharmaceutical  Codex,  in  the  course  of 
which  he  makes  sundry  recommendations  regarding  the  book  and 
the  possibility  of  improving  it.  He  points  out,  among  other  features, 
that  the  book  is  the  property  of  the  druggists  of  Great  Britain  and 
that  it  is  both  their  interest  and  their  duty  to  make  it  as  widely 
known  and  used  as  possible. 
He  also  suggests  adopting  the  arrangement  of  the  subjects  fol- 
lowed in  Squire's  Companion  to  the  Pharmacopoeia. 
A  new  edition  of  the  booklet,  now  a  book,  entitled  The  Propa- 
ganda for  Reform  in  Proprietary  Medicine,  has  been  published  by 
the  American  Medical  Association.  The  book  now  comprises  nearly 
three  hundred  pages  of  material,  reprinted  from  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  and,  to  the  pharmacist  particularly, 
should  be  worth  many  times  the  price  that  is  asked  for  it.  For  those 
who  wish  to  have  the  material  in  more  permanent  form  a  cloth 
bound  edition  has  been  prepared,  and  this  will  no  doubt  be  an  advan- 
tage because  of  its  more  presentable  appearance  and  the  permanent 
character  of  the  binding. 
Therapeutic  "Progress. — Every  wide-awake  pharmacist  should 
read  and  mentally  digest  the  address  delivered  at  the  opening  session 
of  the  Department  of  Medicine  and  Surgery  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  by  Dr.  C.  W.  Edmunds.  In  this  address  Dr.  Edmunds 
has  gathered  together  an  array  of  facts  that  will  serve  to  attract 
attention  to  a  number  of  abuses  that  serve  to  still  further  complicate 
"  the  complex  character  of  the  present-day  therapeutic  situation." 
This  address  is  printed  in  full  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Med- 
ical Association  (1909,  v.  52,  pp.  519-524). 
The  Annual  Meetings. — Active  preparations  are  being  made  for 
the  coming  meetings  of  the  several  National  associations  in  which 
retail  druggists  are  more  or  less  interested.  The  Council  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  has  decided  to  accept  the  invi- 
tation of  the  retail  druggists  of  Los  Angeles  and  the  meeting  of  the 
A.  Ph.  A.  will  probably  be  held  in  that  city  some  time  in  August. 
While  there  are,  no  doubt,  many  members  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  who  honestly  doubt  the  judiciousness 
of  this  decision,  particularly  in  view  of  the  really  warm  experience 
