Cbe lournal of Pbarmacolo^y, 



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

 OF Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Chemistry. 



Vol. VII. DECEMBER, 1900. No. 12. 



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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. 9 

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



Physical Therapeutics. 



According- to the Hospital, the establishment of a journal devoted 

 to physical therapeutics seems to suggest that in the future much more 

 attention will be paid to this branch of medicine than has been the case 

 in the past, although it is, perhaps, to be regretted that anything should 

 occur to make people regard the measures included under this term as 

 a specialty apart from ordinary practice. 



We are all ready enough to laugh at the pompous old gentleman 

 who plays the part of the physician in the older novels and story books. 

 Nevertheless, we may express our belief that we have not even yet 

 shaken ourselves free of some of the evils and some of the prejudices 

 which date back to what may be called the gold-headed-cane period of 

 medicine, one of the worst of which is the tendency to confine our thera- 

 peutic efforts to pills and mixtures, instead of using every means which 

 experience, and not merely the experience of the schools, shows to be of 

 service. So great, however, is the faith of the public in the ever- 

 pre^sent bottle of physic that if a medical man attempts to personally 

 look after the treatment of his patient, to do a little massage, to apply 



