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Strong, Henry R........... Odd Fellow's Bldg., St. Louis...1894

William Mittelbach, Ph. G., was born at Boonville, Mo., April 2, 1856. He received a preliminary education at the public schools of that place and then went to the State University, where he took a com bined literary and classical course and has continued such studies ever since. After serving his apprenticeship to the drug business he went to the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, where he graduated in the spring of 1879, and for the past nineteen years he has successfully conducted the leading drug business in Boonville.

No druggist in Missouri has more warm and appreciative friends than Mr. Mittelbach numbers among his acquaintances. His co-workers in the field of pharmacy find him to be a man they can depend upon at all times. He has been one of the main workers in

building up the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association to its present position in the world of pharmaceutical organizations. He has served as president and is at present the treasurer of that organization. He is a staunch member of the American Pharmaceutical Association and frequently attends the meetings. Mr. Mittelbach, whose likeness appears on the cover of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for February, is active in local municipal and business affairs and renowned for his financial probity.

More Pointers for Chairman H. F. A. Spilker of the M. Ph. A. Entertainment Committee and Chairman Wm. L. Meyer of the M. P. T. A. Committee on Entertainment. On page 17 of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST for January we published a pointer from a member of the association. The following is from the Pharmaceutical Review and is but an extract from

the editorial expression on the subject for January. May Editor Kramers be with the association at Meramec Highlands next June:

"Missouri pharmacists have claimed, and many pharmacists from other States, who have fallen in line with the advocates of the 'Missouri Idea,' have claimed again and again, that the sports indulged in so largely by many State associations at their annual meetings bring out more members; that the scientific

lated in their investigations.

"Those who were not so dull as not to be able to understand this kind of logic will no doubt become even more so if they read the 'emphatic' plea of the late President, of the Missouri association. Some of his words are worth quoting. He says:

We boast of the largest association in this country and, while our attendance is always large, the attendance at the business meetings in the past two or three years has been very slim and discouraging to the officers of the association. You discourage the very best things for which pharmaceutical associations are formed-for the advancement of pharmacy and for our mutual improvement and benefit.

Later he indicates where the trouble lies

I would not for one moment disparage any of the outdoor sports. There is time for all-all we ask of you is about four hours during the day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon, and I beg of you all to come out and be here on time.

"These words embody a sad confession, coming from the President of the association that boasts of

being the parent of the new idea that almost captured the last stronghold,' the American Pharmaceutical Association, this summer.

"What benefit are we deriving from this "Triumph of the Missouri Idea?' In the very home of this 'Idea' we find that its tendencies are 'emphatically' criticised. That the President's views are shared by others is shown by the report of the Committee on the President's Address: 'We are sorry to be obliged to agree with the President in his criticism of the lack of interest in business and scientific meetings.' According to the Secretary's report, the proceedings of the two previous years could not be printed until a month previous to this year's meeting, because not sufficient money was on hand to pay the printer's bill."

Mr. L. P. Hemm, of Kirkwood, is the local secretary of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association, elected by that organization at the 1897 meeting. Mr. Hemm is conveniently located for the Meramec Highlands convention. He is a man of executive ability and takes a great interest in pharmacy and the State organization. He has already experienced some of the duties of the office, as President Soper appointed him a committee of one to look after the delegates coming by way of Kirkwood last year. Mr. Hemm invites the members of the association to call upon him if he can in any way be of service to them in arranging for the 1898 meeting.

L. P. HEMM.

St. Louis is 320 miles southeast of the geographical center of the United States-Fort Riley, Kan.-and 215 miles southwest of the center of populationColumbus, Ind.

NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT.

If You are a Secretary read this item, if not a secretary, read it anyway and see what that officer has to contend with when it comes to issuing a report. The efficient secretary of the Nebraska Association, Mrs. Belle C. Heilman, is to be congratulated on her success in securing the "apology" on time even if the proceedings were late.

An Apology

The tardy appearance of this report is in no wise the fault of the secretary of the association, but solely of the printer. The delay has been occasioned in part by the rush of work incident to the "return of prosperity," and partly to the apparent inability of the man who was, until recently, at the head of our job printing department, to handle work systematically. Be it said, however, in extenuation, that during this time his domestic trials have been sufficient to drive the average man to insanity or suicide.

We are extremely sorry for the delay, but having made a change in foremanship, we feel confident that hereafter all work entrusted to us will be gotten out, not only in the excellent manner for which we have a well-established reputation, but with reasonable dispatch.-[THE EXPRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY.

The American Pharmaceutical Association was founded in 1852, and it will soon celebrate its jubilee. It has done more for American pharmacists in this country than any other organization. I notice that there are not as many members from the State of Nebraska as there should be, and I want to say to you, gentlemen, that you are losing. You are overlooking a great privilege in not being better represented in the national body.

I do not Come Here to Beg you to join the American

Pharmaceutical Association, the association does not need any members that have to be begged to come in, but I simply want to ask you individually whether each one of you can afford not to have a membership in the national organization. You want to be heard. Now I know enough about the association to know that some of you want to be heard, and some of you can be heard, and some can be heard to effect. Now shall this section of the country not be represented in that body? You can go to the association meetings and you can be felt and you can get what you want.

I might say that the annual fee is only $5.00. You get for that $5.00 a book in which the report on pharmacy alone is worth that to any druggist. I do not care whether he is in the city or in the outlying districts it is worth that. I appeal to you to consider the subject. I am satisfied that there are members of the American Pharmaceutical Association here and members of the Nebraska Association who will agree with me. You will meet men from all over the world that you have read about and heard of for many years. You know what you gain by coming to the Nebraska State Association; now imagine what it is for you to meet members from other States, from the South and East, and from the North and West. One of the best things that could happen to a druggist is to take him out from his shop and let him mingle with his fellow-craftsmen in his own State, and afterwards those of other States. -[Notes from remarks made by Prof. J. P. Remington at the Plattsmouth meeting of the N. Ph. A.

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NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT.

BY R. P. HACKNEY, DURHAM.

Next Examination at Charlotte, May 17.

Next Meeting of North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association at Charlotte, May 18.

The North Carolina Board of Pharmacy met at Raleigh on January 18. Messrs. Vaughan, Simpson and Zoeller in attendance. Out of seven applicants the following four passed:

R. T. Gregory, D. A. Powell, W. B. Barker and W. B. Turnstall. The North Carolina Druggists will have a large delegation to the A. Ph. A. at Baltimore. The druggists of the State do a good portion of their trading with Baltimore firms and are always pleased when a visit to Baltimore is contemplated, for the genial hospitality of the druggist there is well known by the Tar Heels.

Doses in the United States Pharmacopoeia.—Mr. P. W. Vaughan, a representative druggist of the State and one of the State examiners, speaking of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST's idea of adding the doses in the Pharmacopoeia, says it should be done, and that it is the proper place for the doses, being the recognized authority on drugs, and the standard by which examinations were conducted.

North Carolina News.

The Ashville Drug Co. has sold out.

Polk Miller, of Richmond, is lecturing in the State. John W. Harrison, a druggist of Macon, died on January 13.

The Eubanks Drug Co. has succeeded A. B. Roherson, of Chapel Hill.

The Carolina Drug Co., of Raleigh, has sold out to Heartt Brothers.

George Gaskel, a popular salesman, has been spending the holidays in Durham.

Mr. H. R. Chears, the popular salesman for W. R. Warner & Co., has been spending the holidays in Raleigh.

The Firm of Heartt & Hackney, of Durham, has dissolved, Mr. Heartt retiring. R. P. Hackney succeeding him, the firm being Hackney Brothers.

Mr. W. Ashley May, of Rocky Mount, was married to Miss Lizzie Lancaster of that place on December 21. Mr. May is a well known druggist of that place.

The Pharmacy Students of the U. N. C. organized a football team for the last season which won the championship of the classes and celebrated their victory in a banquet with the medical class.

Anilipyrine. This is obtained by heating together one equivalent of antifebrin and two of antipyrin. The product is freely soluble in water and may be given to the extent of 30 grs. per day in 7 to 10-gr. doses as an antipyretic and analgesic.

OREGON DEPARTMENT.

Oregon Association meets at Portland, September 9, 10.

Next Examination by Oregon Board at Salem, March 8.

Would the Pharmacists of Oregon like to see doses in the next revised edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia? The readers of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST in this State are invited to express their opinion freely and give their reasons for, or against, the adoption of the list of doses by the Pharmacopoeial Revision Committee.

Drunkenness in a Physician is not regarded as unprofessional conduct in Oregon. The Board of Medical Examiners lately rendered this decision after sitting upon a case supposed to be within the legal province of the board's power to revoke the license of a physician guilty of moral turpitude. It was held by the board that a physician may become intoxicated and indulge in boisterous language without being relegated to the domain of immorality, and counsel for the physician, ex-United States Senator Dolph, coolly argued that getting drunk merely involved the violation of a city ordinance, and finally insisted that even frequent repetition of the disgraceful procedure did not indicate moral turpitude.

The Oregon Board of Pharmacy met recently. It

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was a quarterly meeting of the board, composed of L. W. Moody, President, of Portland; A. Yerington, of Eugene, Treasurer; J. M. A. Laue, of Portland, Secretary; George C. Blakeley, of The Dalles, and Lee Steine, of Salem.

The seven candidates who passed were:

Seniors-C. E. Bogue, of Myrtle Creek; F. W. Bosworth, John A Gutzen and Thomas C. Hirsch, of Astoria; Juniors-Irving Ballard, of Woodburn; S. G. Haas and J. M. Haberly, of Salem.

It was decided to hold the next annual meeting at Salem on March 8, 1898.

Keep Your Mouth Shut.-The Philadelphia Medical Journal says: This is a good time a year to remind some folks to "keep your mouth shut "-for hygienic reasons-both day and night. It was an old superstition that devils would find their way into one who leaves the mouth open, but modern science gives better reasons for using the mouth only for eating and speaking and depending on the nose for breathing. Shut your mouth and open your eyes and you'll take in enough to make you wise.

Engage good, reliable, industrious and sober assistants.

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT.

S. M. MILLER, PH. G., NORRISTOWN, PA.

Next Meeting Pennsylvania Association at Buena Vista in June, 1898.

Next Examination by Pennsylvania Pharmacy Board at Harrisburg, Pa.

The American Chemical Society, which met the latter part of December in Washington, D. C., is the outgrowth of the meeting of the American Chemists held in Northumberland, Pa., in 1874, to celebrate the centennial of the discovery of "oxygen". by Priestly. Its membership has become national, extending throughout the country and including representatives of all branches of the sciences.

The Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Association will hold its next annual meeting in the Buena Vista Spring Hotel, June 21, 22 and 23, 1898. The Maryland Association will meet at the same time in the Blue Mountain House. The Buena Vista Spring Hotel is in Pennsylvania. The Blue Mountain House is in Maryland. They are

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both situated within a short distance of each other at the famous summer resort, "Pen Mar." Each will transact its own special business and there will be joint meetings of the two associations. The social part of the meetings of the two associations will be conducted in the presence of the members of both associations and a joint committee on entertainment has been appointed.-[J. A. MILLER, Secretary.

Dr. Lowe was born in Salem, N. J., in 1846, gradu

ating from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1884. Was proprietor of the drug store at Ninth and Vine streets, Philadelphia, until a few years ago; was made Quiz Master to the College Review Quizes in 1887; was appointed assistant instructor to Prof. Bastin, 1893; graduating from Jefferson Medical College in 1887, he is a member of the American and of the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Associations, and is Chairman of the State Association's Committee on Adulteration. Among his literary work should be mentioned a book entitled "A Syllabus of the Botanical Natural Orders." The book has been found to be very helpful to the students in their studies, he is also deeply interested in church work. He is now Professor of Materia Medica and Physiology at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

PROF. C. B. LOWE.

RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT.

Next Examination at Providence, February 7. Next Association Meeting at time and place to be selected.

The Rhode Island Pharmaceutical Association met at Providence, January 12, in twenty-fourth annual convention.

President Mason B. Wood called the meeting to order. Secretary William E. Cates then read the report of the last meeting.

Secretary William E. Cates presented his annual report, which was in brief as follows: "As is customary, your secretary presents this annual report for 1897. In some respects it will differ from previous ones, namely, in brevity. The association is still in existence, despite considerable opposition and antagonism directly and indirectly during the past year. It still flourishes. Our membership and influence has greatly increased, and we hope by the aid of our newly

elected Senator member to be able to overcome the opposition which there has been to its honest endeavor to improve the pharmacy law and elevate the standing of the pharmacists of this State.

"It is gratifying to state that of the thirty-nine members elected at the last annual report meeting, all but one have qualified. The total membership is 129, an increase of thirty-five over last report. One member has been dropped and two have died. We miss from our midst the familiar faces of John E. Potter and Frank C. Walsh."

President Mason B. Wood stated in his report that the association is fast approaching its quarter century mark. He then reviewed the work of the past year, stating the meetings held.

"The report of the Special Committee on schools of pharmacy shows that the committee has done a large amount of work and deserves thanks. The beginning has been made and it now remains for you and all the pharmacists of the State to give it support. It is the belief of some of the best observers in our profession that in the not distant future there will be a diversion in the ranks of the pharmacists. Namely, into that of the professional pharmacist, and, second, of the mercantile pharmacist. Should this condition approach, and were we called to choose, how many would be able to take the higher class? It therefore becomes necessary to examine ourselves, and if inefficient at once follow the lead of our able committee, join the classes, put in our best work and fit ourselves for either condition."

The president then referred to the legislation and the hope for better success in the future.

"There are many just outside the lines of legitimate pharmacists who, looking upon our efforts, believe we are trying to create some kind of a monopoly or close corporation. But it may be seen that we are merely trying to obtain a better protection for the people. Protection from damage of incompetency and ignorance." He then urged the members to con

tinue their efforts for a law to strengthen the Board of Pharmacy. He also recommended that the Special Committee on Legislation be continued.

Further recommendations were: That the Executive Committee be empowered to cause the State to be canvassed and learn who among the phamacists are eligible to membership.

In conclusion he congratulated the members on the flourishing condition of the organization, and extended thanks for the honor conferred upon him, and for the assistance and support of the members.

New Members.-The following names were proposed for membership: Joseph A. Brassaud, John E. Goff, and they were duly elected.

The Committee on Legislation reported that they had a bill now prepared which they hoped would be passed at the meeting of the Legislature.

School of Pharmacy.-James O'Hare, Chairman of the School of Pharmacy Committee, reported progress, considerable progress. He stated that about thirty

three students had been enrolled on the Brown University course of lectures.

For Nominating Committee for officers for next year the following were appointed: James T. Wright, Newport: Norman N. Mason and James M. O'Hare.

C. E. Gaskell of the Connecticut Association addressed a few remarks and congratulated the Rhode Island Association. E. R. Dawley for the Proprietary Association spoke briefly.

A Vote of Thanks was extended to W. O. Blanding. Mr. Bratt, of Worcester, called attention to the scheme of the New England Druggist.

With Vice-President William R. Greene in the chair, a motion was made and passed that a committee of three be appointed to consider the recommendation contained in the annual report of the president. The following was the committee: H. L. Swindells, John E. Groff and Howard A. Pearce.

Albert Fenner, Treasurer, then presented his report, showing a substantial balance in the treasury.

On motion of Secretary Cates, the thanks of the association were extended to Thomas J. Griffin for his efficient service as stenographer.

New Officers.

Mr. Wright, for the Nomination Committee, presented the following report:

Officers: President, Mason B. Wood, East Providence; Vice-Presidents, William R. Greene, Providance, Providence County; S. Winfield Himes, Phenix, Kent County; George E. Greene, Hope Valley, Washington County; James T. Wright, Newport, Newport County; William H. Buffington, Bristol, Bristol County; Secretary, Wm. E. Cates, Providence; Treasurer, Albert Fenner, Providence; Executive Committee-Alex. W. Fenner, Jr., Providence; James O'Hare, Providence; George E. Greene, Hope Valley. With James O'Hare in the chair, the above officers were unanimously elected.

The president expressed his thanks for the honor and stated he would do his best for another year.

Committees.

The president then appointed the following standing committees:

Legislation James O'Hare, Providence; Norman N. Mason, Providence; Charles A. Glancy, Pawtucket.

Papers and Queries-Charles H. Daggett, Providence; William R. Potter, Providence; Charles E. Greene, Hope Valley.

Special Committee on School of Pharmacy-James O'Hare, Chairman, Providence; Frank A. Jackson, Woonsocket; William O. Blanding, Providence; Arthur W. Claflin, Providence; Alexander W. Fenner, Jr., Providence; Benjamin A. Payne, Providence; Benjamin F. Downing, Jr., Newport; S. Winfield Himes, Phenix; Edgar K. Gridley, Pawtucket; Enoch W. Vars, Niantic.

Delegates to American Pharmaceutical Association -William E. Cates, William R. Greene, Alex. W. Fenner, Jr., James O'Hare, William R. Potter, all of Providence.

Delegates to Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Association-Edgar K. Gridley, Pawtucket; Benjamin A. Payne, Providence.

Delegates to Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association-Enoch W. Vars, Niantic; George E. Greene, Hope Valley.

Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy-Norman N. Mason, President, Providence; James H. Taylor, Newport; Albert B. Collins, Westerly; William J. McCaw, Providence; William R. Potter, Providence; Frank A. Jackson, Woonsocket; William E. Cates, Secretary and Registrar, Providence.

The Entertainment at the special dinner was by Eugene Sweet, who gave several recitations, and songs by F. T. Richards, barritone, which were enthusiastically applauded. Russel Dickinson, accompanist. The Livsey Orchestra rendered musical selections during the dinner and W. I. Blanchard, late of Los Angeles, Cal., also added to the spirit of the occasion.

Papers and Queries.

At the meeting after the dinner, Charles H. Daggett for the Committee on Papers and Queries, recommended the following subjects for consideration by the members and for papers to be read at subsequent meetings: That of the purity of chloroform as found in commerce; the advisability of using Columbian spirits in pharmaceutical preparations; a use for formaldehyde as a preservative. The purity of glycerin of commerce; whether the fluid extracts should be used in the 1900 Pharmacopoeia or 50 per cent tinctures should take their place; what is the strength of tincture of opium as found in the standard pharmacy; of the existing relations between the physician and pharmacist. Also do tablet triturates contain all that they pretend to contain.

The application of James A. Feeley was received for active membership and was accepted.

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