Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-12
DRUCCISTSASK
MODELLAW OF
NEXT SESSION
Convention Decides 10 Make
Recommendations to
Legislature.

:. Recommendations to
Legislature.
Recommendations for enactment by
the next legislature of a law which would
repeal the present statute regulating the
practice of pharmacy in the state of
Montana was decided upon Tuesday
morning in the thirty-second meeting of
the Montana Pharmaceutical association
being held in the Park hotel. The pro-
posed law would contain the general
provisions of the model pharmacy law
suggested for all states by the National
Association of Boards of Pharmacy. De-
tails for the administration of the new
law are to be worked out by the legis-
latlve committee OF the pharmaceutical
association and Incorporated in the bill
before it is presented to the legislature.
Discussion of the amount to be
charged under the new law for annual
dues in the pharmaceutical association
and the fee for registration and renew
ais with the state board Of pharmacy.
consumed the greater portion of the
time given to debate on the proposed
Dill. Many of the delegates expressed
the belief that dues in the association
''cNAo oN ~ 80 n Ii Sull
to be divided equally between the state
board and the association. while others
opposed this idea on the ground that
registered pharmacists who are clerks
could not afford to pay increased dues.
Dues are now SO n year, 81 going to the
state board and 81 to the association.
Cooperation between druggists of the
state and the extension department Of
the State Agricultural college val
asked in the speech of DIR. Howard
WEIGH. veterinarian at the state college
IN charge of the veterinary department
OF the extension service. This coop
Grafton would come through druggists
having remedies which are approved
by the department of agriculture avalia-
bic for farmers when their stock be-
comes afflicted with blackleg, hog chol-
era ard kindred diseases.
Fewer Veterinarians
Because of the reduction in the num-
Der of horses and cattle owned in the
state in the last three or four years,
there has been a great reduction in the
number OF practicing veterinarians, DR..
WEIGH said. For this reason it is more
and more becoming the duty of drug !
gists to advise farmers of the proper |
manner to combat disease among live
W "hd " NC DISpdltu W sell tUpIu !
the proper medicines.
The extension department has found
after many experiments that aggressin. !
o fluid vaccine. is superior to the old
tlme spore vaccine, a powder prepara-
ton for vaccination against blackleg.
DIR. WEIGH said. Since 1918. the col
iege has used aggressin and has not lost
2 calf from its herd, while for the
four years prior to that, spore vaccine
was used and there was some loss from
blackleg each year.
The federal government will no long
or furnish blackleg vaccine to farmers
free. he said. and it now becomes the
duty OF druggists to have the prepara-
ton in stock. Heretofore. DIR. WEIGH
has been issuing from the college an
average OF 100000 doses of vaccine a
year.
SO far. no satisfactory remedy has
been found for contagious abortion. DR..
said. Veterinarians are still ex-
with compounds that will
check it. In 1917. DR.. WEIGH said. be
wrote q bulletin which was published by
the college, in which he outlined treat
.nentS. but since then he has found
his theory was wrong and he is
still apologizing for it.
Eastern Montana. from Billings east
the South Dakota line and north 10
Malta and east to the North Dakota
state line. farmers constantly are hay-
ng to fight hairless pigs. he said.
n some sections. the condition has be-
so bad that farmers who were ,
IN the hog business have
'ecn ruined through losses they sus-
aimed.
The disease resulting in the birth
II 'hoIrlnGu rtcG' -, r..
,hecked. he said. by feeding potassium I
odide to sows during winter. Feeding :
# potassium iodide gives pigs a mineral !
cement that is needed and which they /
annot get through their food and wafer I
D eastern Montana. One grain of not !
sslum lodide to a SOW each dav will S
'revent hairless pigs. and DIR. WeIcb I
.rged that druggists be stocked with
nc-graln tablets as this size tablet i
preferred. |
The work of the National Association
{ Boards of Pharmacy was reviewed. 7
or the convention by John Gully If G
ogden. Utah. member of the exccutivc i
of that association. Sixty
40 years ago, medicines and pre- d
crlptlons were compounded BY apotbe- o
aries. ne sald, VINO were recruited from n
ranks OF their own apprentices. S
pfl'fe an apprPnlfCe was compe- &
ant TO conduct an apothecary shon. he G.
.ould leave his employer and start in s
for himself, he said. and his i,
nsuIted in a demand from physicians |,
nd from the public that some sort of %
equation be fixed so that the honjI;ny o
f drugs and medicines would not no . d
ienace to the public. q
Need Uniform Laws
Laws were enacted regulating nbar. =
Iacy and finally state boards Of mar |,
Iacy were created. he said. About rs u
r Is years ago. druggists in the New :,
nlgand states felt there was a need g
n a Standardization so that a druggist =
one state might nov to another and '
Of be handicapped in his new location y
= laws entirely different from those y
{ the state from which he came. u
18th this as Il start. the National AS =
of Boards of Pharmacy has =,
into an organization operating :;
A states. "
Conditions in states had to be equal
there could be uniform legisla-
Mr.. Chilly told the convention