Cbe Journal of Pbarmdcology. 



A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Advances Made in the Various Departments of 



Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Chemistry. 



Vol.. VII. NIARCH, 1900. • No. 3. 



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Edited by HARRY B. FERGUSON. Phar.D., 



WITH THE collaboration OF 



Chas Rice, Ph.D. H. H. Rusby, M.D. V. Coblentz, Ph.D. Geo. A. Ferguson, Ph.B. 

 Geo. C. Diekman, M D. John Oehler, Ph.G. Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D., Ph D. 



Has Commercialism superseded Pharmaceutical 



Training? 



Just at this time of the year, when the various colleges launch any num- 

 ber of young men on the Pharmaceutical sea, the question naturally comes 

 uppermost in their minds whether the good pharmacist, or the good busi- 

 ness man is the more successful. It must with truth be said, that the good 

 business man, with bright ideas and a determination to carry out these 

 ideas to a successful ending, is more apt to be successful in a financial sense 

 than his more educated brother who, perhaps safe in the arms of his learned 

 profession, rests serenely in the thought that business will carry on itself. 



But the former, if he does not keep up his already gained knowledge of 

 pharmaceutical manipulations, the newer remedies, his knowledge of 

 Materia Medica, Toxicology, etc., and adds thereto, soon lapses into the 

 veriest merchant who knows how to buy and to sell, but cannot keep in 

 touch with the Medical Practitioner and inform him of the chemistry and 

 action of the so fast cropping-up new remedies. It then becomes necessary 

 for the new graduate to not only build upon his acquired knowledge, by 

 the continued study of the various subjects which he was taught by his 

 alma mater, but also to do his best to acquire a business training by con- 

 necting himself with a house of well known business ability. By keeping 

 clo.se watch and learning by such experience ; the several years during 

 which he is emplo^^ed in such capacity, must prove of infinite value to 

 him when he decides to do, what is the ambition of every graduate, open 

 a pharmacy of his own. Pharmacy as a profession is not dead yet, there 

 are many stores where pharmacy still has the upper hand ; but it is to 

 fact nevertheless, that in many stores, pharmacy is almost a side line and 

 the many commodities such as toilet articles and sundries, form the prin- 

 cipal part of the business. 



