THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
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AUGUST,  ipop  x^  ^ 
THE  NATIONAL  FOOD  AND  DRUGS  ACT  OF  JUNE 
30,  1906.* 
By  Geo.  P.  McCabe. 
Solicitor  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture  and  Member  of  the  National 
Board  of  Food  and  Drug  Inspection. 
I  feel  honored  that  there  should  come  to  me  this  opportunity 
to  address  the  Utah  Pharmaceutical  Association,  not  only  because 
of  a  great  interest  in  the  national  law  which  is  the  subject  of  my 
remarks,  but  because  of  the  character  and  standing  of  this  associa- 
tion and  of  the  individuals  who  compose  it.  Upon  the  good  sense, 
honesty,  ability,  and  public  spirit  of  the  druggist  and-  pharmacist, 
much  depends  in  the  enforcement  of  the  law. 
From  the  earliest  recorded  time  the  pharmacist  has  been  a 
prominent  figure,  not  only  in  his  chosen  profession,  but  often  in 
the  council  chamber  and  in  the  arena  of  public  affairs.  The  early 
fathers  of  medicine  and  pharmacy,  Hippocrates  and  Dioscorides, 
Greeks,  and  Celsus,  a  Roman,  practiced  these  twin  arts,  and 
were,  at  the  same  time,  prominent  in  political  affairs.  As  a  matter 
of  historical  record,  it  is  certain  that  Arcagathus,  one  of  the  richest 
and  most  influential  Greeks  of  his  day,  kept  a  shop  in  Rome  for  the 
sale  of  drugs  about  one  hundred  and  eighty-seven  years  before  the 
Christian  era.  Galen,  also,  the  great  physician  of  the  second 
century,  whose  influence  is  felt  in  medicine  to-day  and  whose  name 
survives    in    the    familiar    pharmaceutical    preparations  called 
*  Address  delivered  before  the  Utah  Pharmaceutical  Association.  July 
15,  1909. 
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