444  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  {^t^^\sm' 
Canada. — A  new  law  was  passed  imposing  restrictions  upon 
manufacturers  of  nostrums,  requiring  a  certificate  of  registration, 
and  providing  for  a  serial  number  and  guaranty  similar  to  the  Fed- 
eral law  of  the  United  States.  A  proprietary  medicine  is  defined 
as  any  remedy  or  prescription  put  up  for  sale,  which  is  not  in  any 
Pharmacopoeia  or  accredited  formulary,  and  which  does  not  bear  a 
published  list  of  its  medicinal  ingredients. 
Dr.  Hamilton  Wright  presented  a  report  on  the  work  of  the 
International  Opium  Congress,  and  said  among  other  things  as  a 
result  of  his  investigations  of  the  opium  traffic  in  the  United  States : 
that  at  least  20  per  cent,  of  the  Chinese  in  the  United  States  are 
addicted  to  the  opium  habit  in  some  form  or  other.  The  yearly 
importation  of  the  drug  amounts  to  500,000  pounds.  Only  a  small 
part  of  this  is  consumed  by  white  people  to  satisfy  a  craving  for  the 
drug,  so  that  it  would  seem  the  Mongolian  population  is  mainly 
responsible  for  the  spread  of  the  drug  habit  throughout  the  world. 
Nevertheless,  other  Asiatics  as  well  as  Caucasians  use  the  drug  in 
quantities.  The  average  importation  of  opium  into  this  country 
for  the  last  eight  years  has  been  151,944  pounds  annually. 
Dr.  Lyman  F.  Kebler  presented  a  paper  dealing  with  the  "  Neces- 
sity for  a  Federal  Law  Regulating  the  Traffic  in  Habit-forming 
Drugs." 
Mr.  Harry  B.  Mason  presented  a  valuable  report  as  chairman  of 
the  special  committee  to  report  on  the  advance  of  the  temperance 
movement  and  its  relation  to  the  druggists  of  the  United  States. 
The  following  officers  were  elected  for  the  ensuing  year :  Chair- 
man, Prof.  Charles  H.  LaWall ;  Secretary,  Prof.  Charles  W.  John- 
son; Associates,  Philip  Asher,  Cornelius  Osseward,  and  Howard 
A.  Peairs. 
The  following  are  abstracts  of  some  of  the  papers  presented : 
Spanish  Translation  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia. 
By  Joseph  P.  Remington. 
The  Spanish  translation  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  has 
been  issued  more  from  an  educational  motive  than  any  other,  the 
Board  of  Trustees  believing  that  the  islands  which  fell  into  the  pos- 
session of  the  United  States  after  the  last  Spanish  war  should  possess 
a  means  of  using  modern  pharmaceutical  preparations,  and  indeed 
prepare  for  themselves  American  pharmaceutical  products  if  they  so 
wished. 
