Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-09-04
GO TO DENVER NEXT YEAR
SO THE AMERICAN PAA r.
CIsTS DECIDE.
A North CarOlinian Chosen Pres.
ident Of The AssOciatiOn-OR III
GERS OF The state Associaiion-
Other BuAineRa.

PuilSuioi lniS HUI uihS anu snNJ oSASNN
without dissenting voice that Asbeville
was the place they long had sought, as
far as beauty and hospitality go. There
was an air Of general satisfaction at
having fallen into such pleasant SUI
roundings with White Smith and his
fellow laborers to see to it that each one
of the visitors was made to feel that he
alone was the guest of honor. Never has
this feat been so successfully accomplished
anywhere as at the present convention
and Asheville people have occasion to
feel as proud as they care to on this &C.
count.
Beginning today and continuing the
rest of the week the druggists will
calmly and dispasionately consider topics
with names that would stump ordinary
people at mere mention. They have al
ready begun to wade and revel in such
things as Pflanzenpahologisch, Mettheil-
ungen, Reactions of ferric salts. with
Thiocyanates and Hydrargyrum Sozoio-
dolcum, and people who peeped inside
the doors this morning were seriously i'm
pressed with the proiundity Of knowl.
edge displayed with such case and mod
csty by these men of science.
Denver Next Year.
1t was officially announced at this
mornings meeting that Denver, Col, had
been selected as the place for next years
meeting of the association by the com
mittee composed Of Mr.. Dohme as chair
man and Messrs. Morrison of Montreal,
Ford OF Denver, Goodc of st. Louis and
Shepherd of Boston. Invitations were
received f.om Quebec. and Hot Springs,
Ark. The association ratified the choice
of the committee. and to Denver the con-
vention goes in '95 1t was decided that
next years session should begin on
Wednesday and close on the Tut IS lay fol-
lowidg, so as to give the hard working
officials chance to rest on the intcrven.
ing Sunday.
New Officers
BY shifting white marble from one
side OF the official ballot box to the Other
Secretary Remington exercised one OF his
functions of office and elected the officer:
of the great convcnti, II for he coming
year, although this action involved &
successor for himself The choice of th,
officers was not left with MIR. Rcming
ton, however, as he merely carried ou
the instructions of the convention il
casting the official ballot on the report
of the nominating committee. The elec
tion resulted as follows:
president-Wm. ]. Simpson, Raleigh
NC.
First vice presidcnt-C. NJ. Ford. Den
yer, Col.
Second vice PRESIDENT. M. lIurty
indianapolis.
Third vice president-Ioseph L. Morris
Quebec, Can.
Treasurer-S. A. ID. Shepherd, Boston
Permanent secretary-Cbas. Caspari
jr. Baltimore.
! Reporter on progress of pharmacy
Henry Kramer, New York.
Members OF the counc,l-Wm
Thompson, Washington. ID. c.; ii. NJ
Whclplcy. St. Louis, S. p. Watts III, AT
anta.
The committee on association prize
for 1S0l-5 was announced by lreslden
Patch. and was made up OF Henry kra
mcr of New York. w. l.. Scovlle of Mas
sacllusetts and C.N. S. Halbcrg OF CHI
cago.
Will SprM II Out.
| A sentiment has made itself felt anon
the mclnbers of the association agains
. the use of the mystic initials "a. F. A..
| in speaking of their organization. Thcr
= is an idea that these initials link til
organization, in the popular mind, wit
y another A. p. A. and this feeling ha
taken the form OF decision to write tt
name in full hereafter. 1t will tal
longer to write american Pharmace,
tical association" but the members wi
be better satisfied.
According to a report from the con
mittcc on credentials, presented by Pro
5 Fcnncll, 2S States are represented at Il
convcntion. Local Secretary Smith say
5 500 people are in attendance.
After the election of officers today
session was taken up for the most pa
with discussions that were chiefly intc
l. csting for their tcchnicalities.
!. The Associations Grow n
According to report from the mcr
bership committee the roll Of the associ
tion has grown in the last year fro
1893 to 1884. Ninety-sik new membe
were elected today.
C.R. Morgan, M. d, of Philadelph
Il is acting as official reporter tor the co
vcntion for the eighteenth time.
knows the association better than
knows itself.
working ON Business.
= In the business session reports fro
various sources were received. Amol
these we're reports from the Information
Pharmaceutical Congress held in Chic
90 in 1893, presented by A. Z. Ebert
Chicago; from the Pan-Amcrican Me-
cal Congress held ut Washington in 81
tcmber, 1898, by Prof. Ryan of Philad
phia; from the meeting of The Americ
Medical association, held in San Fra
cisco, bv Prof. W. I. Wenzell of s
Francisco. A report on the pre-
reSS OF pHutuaey was P'eoe"'
by Henry Kramer, SPECIAL reporter.
Revision uf the national formula
was gone into with the result that q
eral preparations were added to the Ii
This is list that is made up Of prepa
tions that are not official, but are larg
used bv the public, their ingrediel
< beng generally known, and the purp'
\. of the national formulary 10 to insure
|. use of the same proportions all over
country.
A move in the direction OF prevent
as far as possible mistakes in compil
and compromising prescriptions was c.
templated In suggestion made by
committee on revising the United Sta
pharmasGpia. This suggestion was
the introduction into the book Of a
Of the maximum doses of official rel
dies, 50 that il by mistake or otherv
a physician should prescribe too mucl
any harmful ingredient. the drugs
can tell by referring to his pharmacr
just how much Of this drug it Is sat.
use and compound accordingly. I