The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-16
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.

PRESIDENTS ADphBoS'
gentlemen and Brother Pharmacists;
II again becomes my most pleasant duty to
address this association Ms your retiring Pres-
ident, and in my brief address il is not ex-
pected that should review the pharmacal
progress of the past year, or discuss nj length
the business that win in future naturally i'm
pose itself upon us and, in fact, feel my
inability to fully spread before you, or map
out such plans and schemes as will more
RAPIDLY and substantially place this nssocla-
ton on equality with those Of other States !;
but while openly confess my inadequacY,
ne vour director and counsellor, feel pre-
pared, without hesitation, in proclaimlng
that the material of this body is par, and, in
some respects, superior to those OF longer
standing and from the conclusion It Will be
inferred that earnest working and careful
watching will throw aside all impediments
that tend TO obstIuct the path of every new
organization, regardless of its nature. 49,,
The old maxim of "Where there is will
there is a way" is sufficient stimulant for
us, as the greatest achievements have been
brought about by the persistent and untlrng
labor of man. =,
Asan example it is now heralded and Ger
tilted TO that artificial diamonds are made,
possessing all the brilliancy and durability
and hardness of natural diamonds, and it will
be well TO note its date of discovery, MS up to
the present record consider it the greatest
and grandest discovery in chemical science,
ma it fully demonstrates that even the ancient
idea of transmu taticn and of life ellxirs are
obscured realities and should not be des-
paired OF.
such men as Lacymier who are hourly
striving to reduce the elementary bodies to
something compact or, in other words, To
some point by which we can trace the rela'
,ionship of all now SO called elements, should
re. Give the universal support and encourage
ment of the profession, ms nothing must now
seem impossible, after such start
ling developments rs were Just
mentioned, especially in the scientific
world. am almost sufficiently convinced
that the seemingly iar-ietched and absurd
hobbies Of Paraselsus and others, will one
day he disclosed to the world, in their exac
light, that the so diligently worked anc
hoped fer, rs it cannot DO denied, that al
hemy was the embryo ofthe pres ent stage o
chemical skill, but we are now soaring II
some direction, beyond the conceptions o
those ancient writers, ms in electricity ant
motion as il is astonishing even to the dhcov
eres contemporaries, science is pushing, itsel
on every vocation of, and IS daily developing
reliefs for the afflicted and Inconvenience o
man. both in the way of inventions and dis
coyeries, AS the deaf are made to hea
and the distant to converse, by the instru
ment of audiphone and telephone, Thos
are nurely scientific attachments and du
their origin solely 10 chemistry. And eacl
and every one present in this hall ar
in position to produce similar results b,
the proper application, as our drug shops ar
nothing more than laborary of the chemist
and we should cultivate the habit ofreeordin!
every result, during our daily labor, that
not already made known to us by good au
thority, for in this way we accumulate intor
NATION for which we proudly feel ourselve
the father, and has in many instances prove
10 be the plan by which scientific discovering
of paramount Importance has been mad
known.
There can be no doubt but that there exist
a greater field to-day for the development o
chemistry and pharmacy than AT any pas
period, and l am pleased to say that advan
tages are being taken of 1t, especially anon!
the manufacturing class. Every new price
current every new catalogue contains eithe
some new remedy for the relief of the man,
ills that human flesh is heir to, or else som
elegant form of administration, and man
preparations simplifed in their manufactur
and made more permanent in thararter. Thi
is the kind of treatment our business ha
needed seriously, yet it Is to be hoped tina
the retail pharmacist will not rely entirely o
the manufacturing class, but will strive t
modify their plans to meet his wants
SO as 10 not necessitale the purchase Of larg
and undue quantities.
And a, this juncture it is well to speak {
the little interest that has been manifested o
the part of pharmacists, in looking ate
better appliances and new and more tttin
apparatus, for at present the still is in an in
perfect state, and cannot call to mind an
one made that fully meets the Requirement
of even the retail druggist. Ii there be on
II has never come to my notice This OF
apparatus, alone, is in daily demand, needc
oitener and requires perhaps more gener
application than any other.
II would be well for us to invite invento
Of stills TO exhibit their apparatus at OF
meetings; and further, to have standin
committee on apparatus, requiring them
possible to obtain from each inventor az
para,us to display before the association
ut their expense, and if this cannot be al
complished, to get cuts and details of Il
same. "a
This move, ! am sorry to say, has ~