FIP Meeting and APhA Study Mission

Study missioners will see the "new" town hall of Vienna (left) which is actually 100 years old, attend sessions of the FIP meeting (right above) and visit this statue (right below) of the Polish , King Sigismund, III, Vasa, in the old town of Warsaw.

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FIP meeting and APhA study mission PhA members,' and pharmacists the -world over will pool their in, formation and knowledge of pharmacy when they gather at Hamburg, Germany, August 31-September 7 for the 22nd General Assembly of the Federation Internationale Pharmaceutique and the 28th International Congress of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The program covers a cross-section of professional and scientific areas of interest to pharmacists today. Beginning with the general symposium whose theme is the therapeutic action of polypeptides, the scientific meetings will delve into new and recent developments of lesser known medicaments. Various sections and commissions are scheduling discussions and symposiums on current problems. The scientific section will present five papers on natural and synthetic indole derivatives; the section of hospital pharmacists will study the distribution, information and control aspects of the hospital pharmacist's functions; the section of military pharmacists will take a look at medicines needed in disaster and in combat as well as at the organization and work in military pharmaceutical laboratories. A symposium on medicinal plants with active antimitotic principles will highlight the program of the section for the st.udy of medicinal plants. Stress will be on inhibition of cancerous cellular growth through plants. Four subjects are under consideration in the press and documentation section-literature on the interaction of medicaments; the importance of terminology in information; international collaboration in pharmaceutical documentation and the form and function of pharmacopeias of the future. At 'an administrative session of the section a code of advertising will be disoussed. A report on labeling and a symposium on the codification of

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methods of extraction of the active principles of medicinal plants are on the agenda for the section of industrial pharmacists. In the meetings of the commission for the general practice of pharmacy discussions will center on education and the increased and new responsibilities of the pharmacist in the future. The subcommission on technics for the general practitioner offers three subjects-electronics in the service of the pharmacist in general practice, the

pharmaceutical image of the general practitioner and the packaging of medicines. In addition to these sectional programs the General Assembly will present a symposium devoted to a study of the structure of FIP with a view to its eventual adaptation to the new conditions of international pharmacy. The discussion will center around the replies to a questionnaire sent out by an ad hoc commission appointed by the Council in Toronto in August 1967. On the lighter side at the meeting will be an evening at the opera, a banquet at Travemunde, a beautiful spa on the Ostzee, and an excursion to the lovely island of Krautsand. APhA study tour

For many of the participants from the United States the FIP meeting will climax a month-long study tour through Europe. The study mission, planned with the assistance of pharmaceutical association personnel in the countries to be visited, will start on August 10 at Kennedy Airport in New York when tour participants meet for briefing and check-in before jetting off on Scandinavian Airlines. The first stop is Copenhagen where the group will stay for four days. Arrival time is Sunday morning, August 11, with the rest of the day free for relaxation. On Monday participants will tour the harbor and city by motorcoach and boat, seeing Tivoli, the new Carlesberg Glyptothica and the old fish market, cruising through the canals and out in the harbor to the Little Mermaid and visiting the Gefion Fountain, the Royal Theatre, the Latin Quarter, the University and the Cathedral. That evening representatives of the Danish pharmaceutical associations will meet the group at a reception. A visit to the Medicinsk Historiske Museum is on the agenda for Tuesday while Wednesday's program calls for a royal tour of Copenhagen including visits to Christianborg Castle, Amalienborg Palace ( King's residence) and Rosenborg Castle. On Thursday study missioners say farewell to Copenhagen and travel along the coast of Sealand through Koge and Soro to Halskov, cross over to the island of Funen by ferry and pass through the fishing village of Kerteminde to Odense. In Odense the group will visit Hans Christian Andersen's house and the Funen Village, an open-air museum. Friday will find the group going on to the Jutland peninsula, stopping at Jelling to see the famous Runic stones and traveling via the Lake District to Aarhus, D enmark's second largest town . There the participants will visit another open-air museum, The Old Town, which includes an apothecary shop restoration. From Aarhus the group flies to Berlin on Saturday, August 17, arriving there in midafternoon. The rest of that day and Sunday are free for independent activities. On Sunday evening a meeting with German pharmacists is scheduled. The program for Monday, August 19, will be filled with combined east-west Berlin sightseeing from Memorial Church to Checkpoint Charlie, Treptow Park, Soviet War Memorial, Karl Marx Allee, Museum Island, Potsdamer Platz, Philarmony Guilding; Brandenburg Gate, Congress Hall, Radio Tower and back to Memorial Church. The group leaves Berlin on Tuesday afternoon to fly to Warsaw, Poland and on Wednesday will tour the Polish city seeing the fortifications of the Old City, the ruins of the former ghetto, the new residential districts, Radziwill Palace and the Palace of Culture and Science. In the evening participants will meet with representatives of the Polish pharmaceutical association. Thursday pharmacists may visit Warsaw pharmacies on a walking tour or spend the morning at leisure in the Polish city. In the afternoon a trip to Zelazowa Wola, birthplace of Frederic Chopin, has been scheduled. Friday morning the group takes off again for Vienna,

Austria, meeting with representatives of the Austrian pharmaceutical organization. On Saturday a tour of the Austrian city has been slated. Visits will include the Beethoven, Goethe and Schiller monuments, the Russian War Memorial, the art and natural history museums, St. Michael's and St. Stephan's cathedrals and the famous old and new imperial palaces of Hofburg and the Palace Schonbrunn. For Sunday the program calls for a morning of leisure or an optional walking tour of Vienna pharmacies. In the afternoon an excursion has been planned into the southernmost Viennese woods, past the medieval castle of Liechten~ stein and the Houdrichsmuhle where Schubert composed his Lindenbaum. The first stop is in Heiligenkreug, one of the most beautiful monasteries of Europe. From there the group goes to Mayling and Baden before returning to the hotel. The group flies to Belgrade, Yugoslavia on Monday, August 26, and will be welcomed by representatives of the pharmaceutical organization. Sightseeing is on the schedule for Tuesday and then on Wednesday a morning flight will take study tourists to Dubrovnik, one of the most fashionable of European resorts and site of the "oldest pharmacy in the world," the Franciscan Pharmacy. After a morning of leisure on Thursday, the group will sail from the Old City Harbor along the Riviera stopping at Lokrum, the "Island of Love" where the former summerhouse of Maximilian of Hapsburg is located. Cavtat, Srebreno and Milini are all visited before the group returns to Dubrovnik in the early evening. Friday tour participants will have a full day of leisure in Dubrovnik before flying to Hamburg on Saturday morning, August 31, for the FIP meeting. Following the meeting on Saturday,September 7, the group will go to Amsterdam and spend the afternoon sightseeing, stopping to visit the Weeping Tower, Rembrandt's home, the Portuguese synagogue and Holland's famous National Gallery. On Sunday a half-day excursion has been scheduled to Monnikendam, Volendam and the Isle of Morken around the Zuider Zee before the group returns to New York on Monday afternoon. Cost of the month-long study mission is $1,388 per person, including air transportation, hotel accommodations (deluxe hotel accommodations with private bath based on two persons sharing a twin-bedded room), luggage transfers and passenger transfers, sightseeing as specified in the itinerary, gratuities and registration and hotel accommodations at the FIP Gemeral Assembly in Hamburg. Meals are provided on a breakfast basis only except during the tour to Odense and Aarhus and the full stay in Poland and Yugoslavia where full board is provided. Not included are passport and visa fees, gratuities to sightseeing guides and drivers, airport taxes and items of a personal nature, such as laundry, liquor and room service. Full information on the tour may be obtained by writing directly to the Division of Communications, American Pharmaceutical Association, 2215 Constitution Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20037. Reservations must be made not later than May 31, 1968.

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