TENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF REGISTRATION
IN PHARMACY

FOR THE YEAR 1895.

Compliments of the Board.

H. M. WHITNEY,

PRESIDENT.

BOSTON:

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,

18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

TENTH ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

MASSACHUSETTS BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN PHARMACY

FOR THE YEAR 1895.

BOSTON:

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS,

18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

REPORT.

BOSTON, Oct. 1, 1895.

To His Excellency FREDERIC T. GREENHALGE,

Governor of the Commonwealth.

SIR: The tenth annual report of the State Board of Registration in Pharmacy is respectfully submitted for the year, from Oct. 1, 1894, to Oct. 1, 1895.

The law creating this Board says, "said Board shall annually report to the governor . . . the condition of pharmacy in the State." It is with special satisfaction that this report, the closing year of the first decade of our work, is addressed to Your Excellency, because of your well-known and appreciated interest in the several duties placed upon us, and particularly those of 1894, namely, the control of liquor certificates to druggists.

To exhibit clearly the condition of pharmacy to-day it will be necessary to consider briefly the conditions previously existing, and present a summary of the work accomplished during the ten years.

At this time the writer may be pardoned for stating the fact that, since the organization of the Board in 1885, he has been annually elected as the presiding officer, but with very few exceptions has had occasion to exercise the right of a casting vote, so harmonious and united has the Board been in its many, varied, and of late exceedingly difficult, duties.

CONDITIONS AND CHANGES, 1875-95.

In 1875 the Legislature authorized the issuing of a fourthclass license to druggists for a fee of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, ranging, in fact, from fifty to one hundred and fifty. Many refused to take

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