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“ But if there are those who have not the moral sense to conscientiously qualify themselves by obtaining the necessary preliminary education, then the teaching bodies should exercise their power to eliminate them. Here is where the highest obligation of the schools and colleges of pharmacy rests, and here is where the supreme test of their sense of their obligation to the public comes in. ”

“ Entrance to a college presupposes a good general education; the studies to be mastered require it, and to admit the unqualified reacts on all those engaged in the practice of pharmacy and in the teaching of pharmacy. It also does harm to those who are still in the public schools, for instead of finishing their courses they discontinue their studies knowing that they can fit themselves by short cuts. It lowers the standard of the schools of pharmacy and so tends to keep away those who are qualified to pursue the work. In short, it lowers the tone of pharmacy at every point. ”

“ At no time in the history of pharmacy in this country has it been so evident that the mentally and morally poor man should not be allowed to jeopardize the health and even the lives of his fellow beings as now. ”

“ If pharmacy is to make progress and if medicine is to make progress it will necessitate a full and complete knowledge of the composition and action of the substances used in the treatment of diseases. ”

“ If there are any two professions or callings where the unfit should be culled out more than in others, it is in those of medicine and pharmacy. These are the professions calling for the highest type of 103manhood, and at the same time special educational equipment and intellectual acumen. Being largely answerable to himself in the conduct of his business, it is plain that the pharmacist must be of a high moral type, and if he is of the type that he should be to assume such a responsible calling, he will first see to it that his general education warrants him in undertaking its pursuit. ”

“ That is, no hardship is worked upon persons who sell their products for what they are, without any misrepresentation. This at first glance would not seem to be a harsh requirement, but when we go into the subject a little more fully we are confronted with the fact that the present era of advertising has developed a carelessness of statement to say nothing of numerous instances of wilful misrepresentation suggesting that the allegation of P. T. Barnum that the American people like to be humbugged, was never more true than at the present time. ”

“ Retail pharmacists should, and if they desire to maintain their standing in the community they must, favor pure food and drug legislation that is designed to protect the public. By themselves taking an active interest in the securing of legislation along these lines they could readily prevent the enactment of ill-advised measures that would tend to hamper or restrict them in the pursuance of their business. ”

“ We know that in Alaska and the Philippines the means for education are not so ample as they are with us, but we are not thinking of stopping to wait for those countries. On the contrary they desire us to go ahead and they will follow as rapidly as possible. And so if the youths of the country districts of Iowa, or Kansas, or Missouri have not, as is claimed by some, the opportunity for obtaining a high school education, is that any reason why those in Ohio, or Michigan, or Pennsylvania should be excused for neglecting theirs? ”

“ Instead of asking him what are the elementary forms of matter, or what is a water-bath, or to give the family name of a plant yielding a drug, it would be better to give him some drug or chemical to identify, to carry out the tests for purity according to the Pharmacopœia and to make a preparation.
The boards of pharmacy have a very important work to perform in determining the fitness of candidates and in determining whether the colleges are faithfully carrying on their work. ”

“ The pharmacist has felt his hampered position for some time, but now that the Pure Food and Drugs Act has become effective, we are face to face with the issue. With the United States Pharmacopœia and the National Formulary as the legal standards he will now be held responsible for the identity and quality of the drugs which he sells. ”

“ From the above findings we conclude that Tyree’s antiseptic powder is a mixture of boric acid and dried zinc sulphate and antiseptic bodies, such as menthol, salicylic acid and carbolic acid, eucalyptol, etc. From this it can be readily seen that the label which is supposed to set forth the composition of Tyree’s antiseptic powder is not in accord with the facts. The powder does not contain either borate of sodium or alum, and the presence of glycerin could not be established. The antiseptic agents, exclusive of the boric acid, are present only in small amounts. ”

“ So the Society for the future will publish its Journal as a monthly for original papers and communications, of which it has as many as it can possibly find room for in its twelve issues, and the Abstract Journal as a semi-monthly, covering the whole field of pure and applied chemistry under some 30 subdivisions, of which pharmaceutical chemistry is one. ”

“ A good preliminary education is essential to an apprentice and student of pharmacy.
(2) The least that a college or school of pharmacy should do is to send forth graduates that are masters of every detail of the U. S. Pharmacopœia and the National Formulary.
(3) It is the duty of the Board of Pharmacy to determine what 107applicants for the certificate of Registered Pharmacist can do rather than what they are able to memorize. ”

“ No intelligent physician should be misled by the extravagant and unfounded claims made for this preparation.
Hagee’s Cordial of Cod-Liver Oil is a representative of a class of preparations which claim to “represent the oil, but contain no fat,” and are therefore practically worthless. The claims of therapeutic value for such preparations can not be substantiated. Some such remedies are advertised as extracts of cod-liver oil, when, in fact, they are made from cod livers, but not from cod-liver oil. ”

“ If there are ten times as many germs as blood-corpuscles, the bacterial suspension contains approximately 45,000,000 germs per cubic centimeter. The number of germs present will of course vary with the density of the emulsion. The bacterial suspension is heated at the lowest temperature and for the shortest possible time to kill it. The amount of sterilization will differ with different organisms; 60° C. or less maintained for thirty minutes or less is usually sufficient. Cultures from the vaccine are finally made to insure that it is sterile and safe and some preservative added. ”

“ If the public could realize the harm that has been done to persons 112who have unconsciously formed drug habits by taking proprietary catarrh cures there would be universal amazement at the depths of degradation to which a manufacturer will lower himself in order to increase the profit on an article by stimulating an increase in its sale. Instances have come before the authorities at Washington in which manufacturers have frankly admitted that they had added morphine or cocaine to their nostrums in order that their continued use might be assured. ”

“ Certainly those applicants for entrance who have had opportunities for obtaining an education and have been so indifferent as not to improve them, can hardly be considered fit candidates for the practice of pharmacy. ”

“ A bill has been introduced into the Legislature of the State of New York providing for the incorporation of the Public Health Defense League, under a special charter patterned after that of the Red Cross Society.
The object of this new society is announced as being an organized movement against medical and surgical quacks, frauds in patent medicines or nostrums, and an effort to obtain and to disseminate accurate information concerning practices and conditions of every 130kind that are dangerous to the public health and morals. (Journal A. M. A., 1907, page 236.) ”

“ The only wonder is that the entrance standards in some of the professional schools have not been advanced more rapidly than they have, for in no other way have they been more handicapped than in this. ”

“ The leucocytes of healthy or diseased persons seem to be equally active when brought in contact with the same serum, hence the amount of opsonins present in the blood of an individual determines, according to the opsonic theory, his susceptibility to bacterial invasion. ”

“ At the present time the facilities for instruction and the opportunities for obtaining a good general education are so ample that it seems hardly credible that any one who is desirous of obtaining an education should fail in the attempt. ”

“ The number of persons in the community who are really able to judge such preparations is wofully small and it will require a constant campaign of education for many years to bring the every-day consumer of preparations of this class to a sense of his personal responsibility in such matters. ”

“ The writer was of the opinion that the long hours without proportionate compensation has an influence in keeping young men from taking up pharmacy in the first place, or of pursuing it after qualifying for the work. Mr. Campbell also considered some of the arguments that have already been advanced in some of the previous issues of this Journal as to the necessity of reasonable rest and recreation in broadening the horizon of the pharmacist. ”

“ Academic questions as to the harmfulness of certain preservatives or colors, or substitutes for this or that well-known foodstuff, do not enter into the question at all. The phrase “caveat emptor,” let the buyer beware, is not applicable to foodstuffs, for the buyer as a rule is not capable of judging as to the presence or absence of certain constituents which may or may not be harmful according to the idiosyncrasy of the consumer. ”

“ Luxuriant cultures of the desired organism are grown upon inclined agar; the growth is then removed with salt solution and a glass rod, and thoroughly emulsified by shaking in a test-tube, in order to get the germs well distributed and the clumps broken up. The number of germs in a given quantity of the emulsion is then determined by comparing the number of germs and red blood-corpuscles in a mixture of one part emulsion, one part freshly drawn blood, and three parts of normal salt solution. ”

“ Actions and Uses.—Beta-eucaine hydrochloride is a local anesthetic like cocaine, but weaker and devoid of the stimulating properties of the latter. It does not dilate the pupil, nor does it contract the blood-vessels as does cocaine. It has the advantage of stability even on prolonged boiling. It may be used in all cases in which cocaine is indicated as a local anesthetic, especially in ophthalmology. ”

“ It is true there may be some parts of our country where the opportunities for obtaining an education are more or less limited, but this is no argument why those in the vanguard should stop in their course and wait for the center of population to shift a few hundred miles. ”

“ That the medical profession in all sections of the country is clearly in favor of pure food and drug legislation was plainly evidenced at the Conference of the Committee on Medical Legislation, of the American Medical Association, with the National Legislative 128Council, held at Washington, D.C., December 13th to 15th inclusive. ”

“ Secrecy in connection with nostrums, the composition of which was known only to some one or more individuals, but not to all was an objectionable feature and frequently led to arbitrary and in many instances dangerous changes in the composition and the action of nostrums.
Dr. Leffmann then called attention to a number of specific instances in which it was known that changes had been made in the composition of widely advertised nostrums and also pointed out how these changes might be injurious to the consumer. ”

“ In other words, if the vaccinations are properly given, “never during a negative phase,” and as a result the patient’s tissues are stimulated to an increased production of the opsonins, phagocytosis is increased, the invading bacteria are disposed of, and the patient recovers from his infection. The proper handling of patients according to this method requires the greatest attention to details of technique for obtaining the opsonic index, preparing the vaccine, and the administration of the proper dose at the proper time. ”

“ A good field is selected, one containing many leucocytes, the number of germs counted in the first fifty or hundred observed, and an average per leucocyte determined. If the average in the mixture containing the normal serum is two, we would say that the normal opsonic index is two, and if the mixture containing the patient’s blood serum is one per corpuscle, we would say that his index was one-half, etc. ”

“ The attempt to modify cod-liver oil for therapeutic purposes may be pronounced a failure and the large variety and extensive sale of these preparations appear to be owing to the fact that physicians do not recall the ordinary facts of chemistry, but accept too readily the statements of the manufacturers. ”

“ In doses of 0·3 gramme (5 grains) four or five times a day, in adults, it is claimed to cause no unpleasant results and to produce no disturbance of the digestive organs, and to have no appreciable effect on the secretions. Its action is prompt and its effect is manifest for several hours. In doses exceeding 1·6 grammes (25 grains) daily it may produce dizziness, vertigo, anorexia, and mental hebetude, all of which symptoms disappear on discontinuance of its use. ”