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A number of improvements have been made in the College. A 

 new case has been built in the Library, a new railing has been set' 

 in the office, the ceilings in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Lab- 

 oratories have been painted. In the department of Materia Medica 

 a number of new miscroscopes have been purchased as well as a 

 new microtome. The museum room will be used as a Biological 

 Laboratory. 



The department of Pharmacy has added a new Engler Viscosi- 

 meter to its apparatus outfit. An improved method for lighting the 

 Dispensing Laboratory by reflected light is being considered. The 

 work in Practical Pharmacy will be controlled by a new system of 

 laboratory work books. 



The department of Chemistry has purchased a fine set of crystal 

 models and a Goniometer for the new course in crystallography. 



THE DISPENSING PHYSICIAN.* 



By William C. Alpers. Sc.D., New York. 



The Critic and Guide of May brings a contribution by Dr. G. L. 

 Servoss entitled, "The Dispensing Physician," which contains some 

 very remarkable statements, although in place of sound argument 

 ft only rehashes old worn-out charges and counter-charges. If I 

 reply to the doctor's article, it is not because I wish to continue 

 this controversy on such useless lines, but rather to accentuate the 

 futility of such efifusions and point out the only proper way in 

 which this vexed question should be approached and finally will 

 be settled. As the doctor may not know me, I will state thai; I am 

 a pharmacist of more than thirty-five years' experience and am 

 now retired from business. During this long career I have con- 

 sistently abstained from counter prescribing and advocated this 

 policy in hundreds of meetings. I have no word of defence for the 

 prescribing pharmacist and condemn him alike with the dispensing 

 physician. I am therefore a more impartial judge of the merits of 

 this case than Dr. Servoss who recognizes this wrong fully in his 

 erring brother, but expects to remedy it by committing a similar 

 wrong. It is not likely that thieves, robbers and other criminals 

 will ever meet and consult on the best way to combat crime. Nor 

 is it likely that dispensing physicians and prescribing pharmacists 

 will ever try to find a remedy for this evil. The correction of 

 *From Critic and Guide, Aug. 1913. 



