1897 THE MICROSCOPE. 129 
THE MIGROSECOPE, 
New Series, 1893. 
For Naturalists, Physicians, and Druggists, and Desigued to Popularize 
Microscopy. 
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CHARLES W. SMILEY, A. M., EDITOR. 
EDITORIAL. 
The Pharmacist as a Bacteriologist.— It is thought 
that there is a larger field of usefulness coming before the 
profession of pharmacy. Bacteriological work is not for 
the practicing medical man. It is work for which the 
training and education of the pharmacist particularly fits 
him. ‘There is no reason why he should not prepare 
remedies from bacterial cultures as well as from the barks 
of trees or from the bodies of animals, or why he should 
not examine water for typhoid bacilli as well asa stomach 
for arsenic. In order to take up this work the pharmacist 
of the future must be more of a biologist than in the past ; 
he must not only look to the test-tube, but also use the liv- 
ing tissues as his reagents. 
To his work in the future we may look for the provision 
of aecurate remedies of definite power with which to cure 
or prevent disease, and convert the art of medicine into 
the science of therapeutics. 
Attention has been specially drawn to this subject in an 
address before the Manchester, England, Pharmaceutical 
Association by Dr. Robert B. Wild. 
Health of the Jews.—-The markedimmunity from disease 
of the Jews is noted. It has continued even tothe present 
day, as evinced by the extremely low mortality. This 
