These gentlemen are alternates to delegates to National Retail Druggists' Association. These gentlemen are alternates to delegates to American Pharmaceutical Association. SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. FIRST SESSION-Wednesday Morning, May 21st, 1884. The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association met pursuant to call in regular session on Wednesday morning, May 21st, 1884. In the absence of the President (Mr. West) Mr. John Weyer occupied the chair. The roll was called and the following named gentlemen responded: DR. JAMES M. AYERS, O. BIGLER, A. L. BOEHMER, GEORGE EGER, J. W. FORBES, DR. T. L. A. Greve, H. H. KOEHNKEN, Jos. C. LAMMERT, WM. J. MARTIN, C. W. PHILLIPS, J. D. WELLS, A motion to extend an invitation to the druggists and physicians of Covington, Newport, Dayton and Bellevue, Kentucky, to attend our sessions, was put to vote and carried. On motion a committee of three (3) were appointed to extend the invitation and were instructed to have printed a suitable circular. Messrs. Elfers, Klayer and Fallon were appointed. No other business being presented, a motion to adjourn to meet at Dexter Hall, at 10 o'clock on Tuesday morning, May 27th, 1884, prevailed. Respectfully, WM. J. MARTIN, Assistant Secretary. SECOND SESSION-Tuesday Morning, May 27th, 1884. The second session of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association, was held in Dexter Hall, a section of the famous Exposition buildings, Cincinnati, and was called to order by the president, S. S. West, of Cleveland, at 11 A. M., Tuesday, May 27th, 1884. The Hon. T. J. Stevens, Mayor of Cincinnati, was then introduced and delivered the following ADDRESS OF WELCOME: Gentlemen of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association: In bidding you welcome to this metropolis, I feel that I am not addressing strangers, but those who, while they may many of them not reside within our corporate limits, are at the same time citizens in common with us of the great State of Ohio. But whether you be citizens or aliens, druggists, apothecaries or pharmacists, it is the custom and pleasure of our people to extend the right hand of fellowship to all strangers who come to our midst, and as representative of that people, allow me to assure you that you are with friends who greet your coming, and whose every effort will be made to make your stay with us so agreeable that you will visit us frequently in the future, in other words that you will hereafter cheerfully, and without urging, take more of the medicine that we give you now. You do not expect me of course to enter into any detailed statement of the objects and advantages of your Association. But I so fully appreciate the necessity of an intelligent compounding and dispensation of drugs, that I must congratulate you upon the success that you have achieved in that direction, and hope you will continue to so elevate the calling that pharmacy will become everywhere a science, in fact as well as in name. Gentlemen, you are heartily wel come to Cincinnati. Mr. George Merrell being introduced, delivered an address of welcome on the part of the profession of Cincinnati, as follows: ADDRESS OF MR. GEORGE MERRELL. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention : The Chief Magistrate of the city of Cincinnati has bid you welcome within her borders, and it is my pleasant privilege to add to his greeting, and, in behalf of the wholesale and retail drug trade of this city—the manufacturing chemists the paint and oil trade, the white lead manufacturers, as well as other interests closely associated with the drug business-to extend to you individually and as an association-a cordial welcome in our midst and to the sessions of the Sixth Annual Meeting of this body. The Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association offers no apology for its organization or continued existence-it needs none. It was founded in that necessity which exists in all business professions, for a better mutual understanding between individuals, for a higher standard of business morals, for greater proficiency in the special line of the profession of pharmacy. The written law or constitution of the Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association outlines these objects in no uncertain tones. It declares that the standard of the science and art of pharmacy needs to be improved, and that their practice should be limited to those who are properly qualified by education and experience. Those of you, my friends, who have been accustomed to attend its meetings for the past five years, need not be reminded of the many pleasant acquaintances formed, nor to the tendency of such friendships toward accomplishing the other and more important objects of this organization. The triumph of the latter months of this fiscal year need only to be called to your mind to suggest to all the exceptional honor enjoyed by pharmacists of Ohio in having a law passed which places their vocation upon its proper footing -that of a profession, as well as a business. I have not the time at my command -nor is this the occasion to enlarge upon the benefits which must accrue to each individual pharmacist in this State-and to the public at large. Let me state, however, that the benefits to be derived will be negative only, unless we rise out of the discussion of side issues into a proper appreciation of our opportunities. Cincinnati has been called the "City of Festivals." The current year has been rich in such gatherings, and if there exists any kind of a festival which has not been attempted here, the average Cincinnatian does not know of it. The Opera Festival, with its wealth of noted musical talent, passed into history amid the rush of waters through miles of our streets and the cries of distress from the flooded districts of our own and neighboring cities-cries, however, which were softened into expressions of gratitude by those outbursts of generous sympathy and assistance for which our sympathy is noted. The "Flood Festival," the "Minstrel Festival," the "Circus Festival" followed in quick succession. The "Dramatic Festival" has also come and gone, and lives only in the memories (and pockets) of those guarantors, from whom 50 per cent. has been required. The Festival of Crime-in which our city seems to have been offered up as vicarious sacrifice for the sins of the whole body politic, is, we hope and believe, past, never to return. The disease required heroic treatment, and if the scars which remain will have been sufficient to remind our people of their duty to the public and each other, we will not have suffered in vain. In the great Music Hall, near by where you now sit, has just died away the sounds of the May Musical Festival-the first created through the enterprise of our citizens and the one most fitting to survive, for out of it has grown this building the pride of Cincinnati, and a noble monument to the munificent generosity of her wealthy and public spirited merchants and professional men. We might discourse with satisfaction of other features of our city, but will not detain you longer. We welcome you with a cordiality born of personal regard and a community of interests. We cannot invite you to the several festivals we have named, for they have passed; to some of thein we would not if we could; but we can and do invite you to our festival of kindly greetings and good fellowship, and to the feast of good things which we have sought to prepare for your enjoyment and instruction. We ask that you partake freely, as a guest sitting at the table of a friend. I thank you for your attention and wish you a pleasant and profitable session. On motion of Mr. R. G. Williams, of Alliance, the calling of the roll was dispensed with. The minutes of the first session, held May 21st, on motion were approved as read. |