i6 THE MICROSCOPE. 



enthusiastic over the microscope than the recent graduate. Such, 

 however, cannot be the case, and we look for our support largely 

 from the younger members of our profession. 



They have been taught in histology and pathology, the 

 causes as well as the cures of disease. They should understand, if 

 anybody, that to relieve the suffering and heal the sick is not all 

 their mission. To understand the cause of disease, and thus better 

 able to prevent it should be our mo.st earnest endeavor. Preventive 

 medicine occupies, and must forever occupy, a high and constantly 

 ascending position in medical literature. 



That physician who has nearest his heart the welfare of his pro- 

 fession and his fellow men, will be the most ready to investigate, and 

 if worthy, to accept anything that promises to be of material aid in 

 the study and diagnosis of disease. 



^\'ith all the educational advantages of our times, with all the 

 helps of every kind at our command, we are inexcusably negligent if 

 we fail to start out in our professional career far ahead of our fore- 

 fathers ; and the people, knowing this, expect and demand far more 

 of the coming physician than they expected or had any right to 

 expect of the new doctor of twenty years ago. Hence, personally, 

 we have no sympathy whatever with that young man whose greatest 

 study is to find a .school with preliminary requirements of such a 

 character that to enter is as easy as to slide down hill ; and with 

 final examinations conducted in such a masterly way that no one is 

 ever found deficient. 



Realizing the importance of microscopical work to the physi- 

 cian, some of the medical journals have devoted regularly a portion 

 of each number to microscopy ; notably in tliis line we have the Cin- 

 cinnati Medical Ncios, edited by Dr. Thatcher. In all these journals, 

 however, medical toi)ics are first, and microscopical ones are second. 

 In this journal we propose to reverse matters ; and those subjects 

 especially related to the microscope will receive the most i)romi- 

 nence ; following these will be matters of general interest to phy- 

 sicians and pharmacists. These subjects will be presented under 

 our "Editorial .\l)stracts." 



Mrs. Stowell will liave entire charge of the pharmacy depart- 

 ment, the structure of drugs, their adulterations and how detected, 

 etc. In time, then, we ho|)c, through the columns of this journal, 

 to show to the professions of medicine and pharmacy that the 



