[The past and the future of the Czech Pharmaceutical Society]

The main features of development of the Pharmaceutical Society as the only scientific, specialist and professional organization in the years 1950-1990 are surveyed. Increasing activities of the Society, extenvicity of the arranged actions and increasing interest of pharmacists to participate are stressed. Attention is drawn to the regular changes in the activity of the Society in the present time which result from the establishment and activity of the Pharmaceutical Chamber and the need to intensity the trade union movement. The Czech Pharmaceutical Society must continue tu guarantee the scientific standard of Czech pharmacy and appropriate foreign co-operation. Pharmacists working in the individual pharmaceutical sciences should assume positions in the management of the Society and its journal.