The New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association 1870 - 1970. Containing: A History of the Association - Historical Vignettes of New Jersey Pharmacy - A Biographical Register of the Members of the Association.

Mit Widmung des Verfassers f�r Gerhard Fichtner. Eine Ecke bestossen. Umschlag berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - In the one-hundred years of its existence, the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association has not been apart from the mainstream of American history. Its own development as an association, the changes that took place within it, and the activities in which it participated were essentially a reflection of the American historical scene. It is within such a frame of reference that this history is presented. An institution which has maintained its integrity, which has grown and changed with the times, and which continues to exist for a Century, has perhaps amply justified its existence. From the point of view of its member-ship, the Services rendered by the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association over the years, ranging from the minutiae of price information to the Association's policy-making r�as the representative of pharmacy in the legislative and judicial halls of the State, are tangible and obvious enough. But a state pharmaceutical association must do more than satisfy its own membership. Confronted by a host of sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing, sometimes conflicting institutions and groups, a State association must perceive a broader sense of mission, and find means of implementing that mission. The founders of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association recognized this when they insisted, very wisely, that the organization had been created to promote not only "our own interests" but that of the "public welfare" as well. That their advice had not gone unheeded is demonstrated in general by one-hundred years of success, and in particular the long history of specific deeds and program which made use of the pharmacist's Special knowledge in the pro-motion of the public welfare.