Cbc journal of Pharmacology. 



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



Materia Medica. 



Vol. V. MARCH, 1898. No. 3. 



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EDITORIAL. 



THE NARROWING TENDENCY TO SPECIALISM. 



There are two sides to everything. This is an axiom of Life, as well as 

 of coins. But it is a funny thing that the man on one side can seldom 

 realize that the man on the other side may be right. Onlookers give each 

 side full credit, but each of the parties interested wants to keep the balance 

 of the credit on his own side. The orthodox brother sees no possible hope 

 for his unorthodox neighbor, but Hellnre; and the unorthodox man denies 

 the possibility of the existence of a fair-minded, rational and charitable 

 opinion in the make-up of his bigoted brother. The political partisan has 

 all the right on his side, and the opposition depends on a carefully assorted 

 pack of lies with which to fool the public. The Jew and the Gentile, the 

 Turk and the Greek are but types of the shifting contrasts in men. To 

 his valet, the orthodoxy or unortliodoxy of his master is immaterial. Is 

 the valet therefore broader-minded? To the impartial citizen with a sale- 

 able vote it is possible to expect fair dealing from either party. Has the 

 impartial citizen, then, a wider point of view? 



No; the value of a man's opinion lies in th<> fact that he is not a mere 

 onlooker, but a worker for the cause he upholds, and the broad-minded man 



