The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-08
ST. LOUIS CHOSEN
FOR NEXT YEAR
Pharmacists Meet in Ses-
sion in Richmond.
M ANY DELEGATES.
All Parts Of the United States and
Canada Are Represented.
ARE WELCOMED TO VIRGINIA
Governor Tyler and Mayor Taylor iIx-
tend Greetings to the Visitors.
Busy Day Yesterday-Nomi-
mating Committee Will
Make the Report at To-
Days Sessions.
ARE WELCOMED TO VIRGINIA

The committee appointed on time and
place of next meeting will make their re-
port to the American Pharmaceutical AS
ISOLATION this evening. st. Louis Mo, is
the place decided upon and the time, May
1901.
There was some friendly rivalry Setween
various cities of the East and West but
,St. Louis won out. This report VIII be
made by the Committee at this mornings
session, and will be adopted.
All day Sunday and during yesterday
druggists from all parts of the United
States arrived at the Jefferson. and to-
day many more are expected The forty
eighth session of the association was
called to order a 10 O'Clock yesterday
morning by President Prescott. The
morning session was confined to business
of the Council of the Associa ton which has
charge of all the plans and arrangements
for the entertainment Of the guests and
THE programme of the convention. The
council was in session several haurs, and
their report was made at the afternoon
session, which was adopted
The visitors were driven, during the re-
cess. about the city and to various points
OF interest
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The first general session of the Con-
Wention was called to order by President
prescott at 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
Governor Tyler made an address OF Wei
come. extending greetings to the visitors
on behalf of the Commonwealth ot VIZ
ginia. Mayor Richard NJ. Taylor wei
coined the visitors to the city OF Ricn-
mond.
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
President Prescott replied IN an ap-
propriate manner to the welcome eA-
tended the Association on behalf of the
state and city. The president then de-
liyered his address which was in part:
In coming together for the forty
eighth annual meeting, We join in heartl-
est greetings of renewed fellowship VIII
each other, and in sincerest gratitude 10
Almighty God for the prosperity OF our
country and of our profession. Inc year
of our Lord nineteen hundred marks an
era of advancement in com'nerclsi! allu
scientific opportunity. It belongs to us as
a company of active workers to keep
step. we'll forward. in the march OF
events. Therefore, it seems proper, SO
far as the brief limits OF this ADDRESS
permit to look over the situation OF
pharmacy at the present and take &C
count of the work Immediately before US.
To inquire into the nature OF tne "oih
of Dharmacy we find that, OF necessity.
there are divisions of pharnlaceu teal
nractice. and that there is the tendency
70 an extension of these divisions. Be
sides the final exercise of pharmacy IN
furnishing and adapting medical ana
chemical supplies to consumers, there IS
secondly, the preparatory business OF the
wholesale druggist, who collects and DIS
tributes medical merchandise over the
~; b;>l1
vice of the manufacturer. It is by virtue
of the function of the dispensing pharma-
cist that the wholesale dealer and phar-
maceutical manufacturer exist, while It
would be hard to say which one OF these
branches contributes the most to the art
and science and growth Of pharmacy as
whole. 1t is the union OF them all that
constitutes the pharmacy OF to-day, the
profession represented by this assocla-
ton.
THE DRUGGISTS DUTY.
The duty of the apothecary is OF
character, integrity and discretion, maze
more responsible by republican freedom
and we'll indeed has the duty been done
by the body of good and faithful servants
at large in the years OF the century
coming to a close. 1t Is an added duty
in the supply of medical merchandise to
consumers to regulate the prices of sale.
This is economics as applied to the sale
of the materials belonging to a skilled
profession People are properly some-
what adverse to unskilled hands for the
supply of any sort of medicines. The
economics of pharmacy call for local Or
ranization friendly cooperation and
representation in national councils No
one of the economical problems of the day
is entitled to more careful study than
this OF the drug trade.
The wholesale and importing trade deals
with all countries and peoples. 1t requires
q range of technical skill and experience
that it must largely gain for itself, with
the use of special sciences, but poorly pro-
y;ded in universities hitherto, and now
only partly indicated under the term
pharmacognosy. 1t performs service of
extensive scientific import and wide eco
nomtc inf1uence. The impulse to literature
gained strength from English trade with
the East stimulated by the relations Of
britain with her colonies. The time has
come when the American drug trade is to
receive a stimuli in its relations to tropi-
cal countries, and profit by the same with
characteristic adaptation OF new methods.
20 this end are wanted all helps of physi-
cal and plant geography, Veget table ri1ysiol-
ogy and agriculture, botanical gardens,
drug plantations and analytical iaborato-
ries Undertakings such as these must
have financial support. and among the
best business men of the United States are
those most likely to furnish this basis. as
they see advantage to come of it. The
an embers of this association know persons
who are at tonce possessed5of large capaci-
ty in successful business and of quick fore
shr into the open door Of scientific dis
scoyery
In the third place, as distinct branch
OF the profession of pharmacy has al