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International Pharmaceutical Federation
meeting
In
Amsterdam •• •
inety-six u.s. pharmacists and their guests joined approximately 1,200 of their colleagues from more than 30 countries around the world in Amsterdam, Holland, September 7- 12,1964, for the 20th General Assembly of the International Pharmaceutical Federation. Featured on radio and television, the opening session in the Aula of Amsterdam University included welcoming addresses by T.H. Bot, Minister of State for Education, Arts and Sciences, and G. van Hall, burgomaster of the city of Amsterdam. H .A.A.]. Martens, president of the Royal Netherlands Society for the Advancement of Pharmacy, told the audience that it was most appropriate that the congress should once more return to Amsterdam because Holland was "the cradle of the Federation" which was born there in 1912.
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FIP president, Sir Hugh Linstead, in response to the welcoming addresses, referred to frequent comments about "the commercialization of the medicament" and stated -· It is alas true that pharmacy in most countries finds itself caught in a tide of industrialization, commercialization and state control which makes its existence as an independent profession everywhere precarious. No one is actively seeking this result. Indeed most people·-ministers, industrialists, the pUblic-would wish to restrain the process by all practicable means. One of the most valuable features of a congress such as ours is that it does just that. It brings together the industrialist, the pharmacist in general practice, the pharmacist who is in some degree a functionary and those who are responsible for the education of phar-
maceutical students. Out of exchanges of ideas each group obtains a better understanding of the needs and responsibilities of the others. All return home with a greater sense of unity and the intention to shape their decisions to continue to serve the public according to pharmacy's traditional standards and responsibilities.
Following Sir Hugh's presidential address, Dr. 1. Boerema, professor of surgery at Amsterdam University, presented an address on oxygen, poison and medicine and FIP scientific section president M. Guillot introduced the Host-Madsen medalist, Professor M. Janot of the Paris Faculty of Pharmacy. The award was presented to Dr. J anot for his research which has resulted in the discovery of 150 alkaloids from various plants and the elucidation of 90 different chemical struc-
The U.S.A. and Canada sit side-byside at the FI P Council meeting, in the persons of official represent- ' atives William S. Apple, executive director of APhA, and John Turnbull, executive secretary of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association.
Vol. NS4, No. 12, December 1964
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In
Amsterdam •• •
inety-six u.s. pharmacists and their guests joined approximately 1,200 of their colleagues from more than 30 countries around the world in Amsterdam, Holland, September 7- 12,1964, for the 20th General Assembly of the International Pharmaceutical Federation. Featured on radio and television, the opening session in the Aula of Amsterdam University included welcoming addresses by T.H. Bot, Minister of State for Education, Arts and Sciences, and G. van Hall, burgomaster of the city of Amsterdam. H .A.A.]. Martens, president of the Royal Netherlands Society for the Advancement of Pharmacy, told the audience that it was most appropriate that the congress should once more return to Amsterdam because Holland was "the cradle of the Federation" which was born there in 1912.
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international pharmaceutical federation
FIP president, Sir Hugh Linstead, in response to the welcoming addresses, referred to frequent comments about "the commercialization of the medicament" and stated -· It is alas true that pharmacy in most countries finds itself caught in a tide of industrialization, commercialization and state control which makes its existence as an independent profession everywhere precarious. No one is actively seeking this result. Indeed most people·-ministers, industrialists, the pUblic-would wish to restrain the process by all practicable means. One of the most valuable features of a congress such as ours is that it does just that. It brings together the industrialist, the pharmacist in general practice, the pharmacist who is in some degree a functionary and those who are responsible for the education of phar-
maceutical students. Out of exchanges of ideas each group obtains a better understanding of the needs and responsibilities of the others. All return home with a greater sense of unity and the intention to shape their decisions to continue to serve the public according to pharmacy's traditional standards and responsibilities.
Following Sir Hugh's presidential address, Dr. 1. Boerema, professor of surgery at Amsterdam University, presented an address on oxygen, poison and medicine and FIP scientific section president M. Guillot introduced the Host-Madsen medalist, Professor M. Janot of the Paris Faculty of Pharmacy. The award was presented to Dr. J anot for his research which has resulted in the discovery of 150 alkaloids from various plants and the elucidation of 90 different chemical struc-
The U.S.A. and Canada sit side-byside at the FI P Council meeting, in the persons of official represent- ' atives William S. Apple, executive director of APhA, and John Turnbull, executive secretary of the Canadian Pharmaceutical Association.
Vol. NS4, No. 12, December 1964
581