T ,„ THE JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY. 



the fact that it has seemingly become a necessity to devote a portion of their 

 valuable time to the growing evil of the nineteenth century. 



The question naturally arises, What will become of our Pharmacopoeia 

 and where will the addition of new combinations end? 



In examining a number of these goods, the writer found some of the 

 most glaring pharmaceutical and chemical incompatibilities made at the 

 expense of their supposed therapeutical value. Few of them were new 

 additions to the physician's armamentarium, while the great majority were 

 only combinations of some of the time-honored and valuable lists of or- 

 ganic and inorganic drugs and chemicals. 



The next step in advance (?) of medical education will probably be 

 the recognition by the Pharmacopoeia and United States Dispensatory of 

 a number of the semi-proprietary remedies, and the following question 

 would naturally be an appropriate one in an examination: "Give the 

 histories, processes of manufacture, does and effects of Fraud's Rejuvenator, 

 Trickster's Anti-consumption Cordial, and Dr. Buncomb's Migraine Spe- 

 cific." 



A united and honest appeal should be made by the medical press to 

 suppress the encroachment of these remedies, a great many of which are 

 placed upon the market for mercenary purposes only, and made possible 

 by the carelessness with which the average medical practitioner allows him- 

 self to be persuaded into using and prescribing them. — W. 0. ()., in Fort 

 Wayne Medical Journal. 



THE KENTUCKY DEFINITION OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. 



The Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal quotes Judge Thompson, of 

 Kentucky, as giving the following definition of the practice of medicine, 

 in pronouncing sentence upon an osteopath, who was convicted of sub- 

 jecting a child with tubeculous deisease of the hip joint to cruel and un- 

 necessary torture: "Any person, who, for compensation, professes to apply 

 any science which relates to the prevention, cure or alleviation of the dis- 

 eases of the human body, is practicing medicine within the meaning of 

 the statute." 



We want to commend Judge Thompson for his clean, concise, yet com- 

 prehensive definition. 



The Legislatures of some States passed laws which declared that he 

 who practiced osteopathy did not practice medicine, and it looked for a time 

 as though the advocates of this new delusion were to be successful in 

 gaining permission to practice in all the States, in spite of the medical 



