The Pharmaceutical era . to yield a very largeprofit. COMdMERCIAL SECTION. The officers of this section were Charles A. Rapelye,Hartford, Conn., and F. W. Meisner, La Porte, chairman and secretary. After the sectionwas to order the chairman proceeded to read hisaddress which follows: R.\PELVES ADDRESS. Pharmacy to-day is a wide departure from the methodsin vogue when the formation of this Association wasundertaken. Professional features were then cominginto prominence, and most of the commeroal Questionsthat confront us to-day were then unknown. Our pre-
The Pharmaceutical era . to yield a very largeprofit. COMdMERCIAL SECTION. The officers of this section were Charles A. Rapelye,Hartford, Conn., and F. W. Meisner, La Porte, chairman and secretary. After the sectionwas to order the chairman proceeded to read hisaddress which follows: R.\PELVES ADDRESS. Pharmacy to-day is a wide departure from the methodsin vogue when the formation of this Association wasundertaken. Professional features were then cominginto prominence, and most of the commeroal Questionsthat confront us to-day were then unknown. Our pre-sent is at one and the same time one of ad-vancement and retrogression. During the life of thisAssociation the advancement of pharmacy along pro-fessional lines has been far beyond the dream of thefounders of th. body. The commercial conditions gov-erning- the practice of pharmacy to-day are not as favor-able to the comfort and contentment of the pharmacistas they then wene, .as no outside competition then ex-. C. LEWIS DIEIIL. Reporter on the Progress of Pharmacy. GEO. W. KENNEDY,Secretary of the Council. lrmf^;u- R f?^ 1<ie^-°^ ?^?^^ the least of theirfmno^f.,-,.»^r,i .h^™^; ° country in commercial=3,^ h ^^^ S^ *i^® constant increase of the comraerciaj1^ ,L 1 ^5®5^J^^\, Pl?3macy in common with all linesof trade, and its business side has grown to be an im-portant problem in the conduct of our business. Inmost lines ot trade and manufactures the commercialspiru is and should be paramount: but pharmacv, com-bining as it does both the professional and commercialfeatures, presents a problem that requires special treat-ment, ano how hest to foster and make prominent theprofessional feature and educate the people up to theidea that pharmacy is a profession and not purely atrade, and at the same time give to. the commercialside the attention which is necessary to the successfulconduct of business, is a question that confronts usto-day and is likely to confront us
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