PHARMACY. 



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next gathering of the American Pharmaceutical 

 nit in. The desirability of interchangeable 

 registration has been discussed at several of the 

 in. .tings of State associations. That such a 

 n-foriu would be desirable seems uncl<>ultr<l, 

 but tin- difficulty to overcome is the lack of uni- 

 formity in the requirements by the laws of dif- 

 ferent States, hence the first necessity would be 

 the amending of the laws making the examina- 

 tions and qualifications of a registered pharma- 

 cist the same throughout the United States. . 



Colleges. The department of pharmacy of 

 the Denver University, Col., came into success- 

 ful existence, and began its second term in the 

 autumn of 1889. A School of Pharmacy was es- 

 tablished in 1889 as a department of the Ohio 

 State University in Columbus, Ohio. Its faculty 

 includes members of the university, and the 

 laboratory facilities offered are unusually good. 

 A College of Pharmacy was organized during 

 1889, in Portland, Ore., under the auspices of 

 the Willamette University. It began with an 

 attendance of 20 students, and, with the excep- 

 tion of the college in San Francisco, is the only 

 pharmaceutical school on the Pacific coast. The 

 New York College of Pharmacy inaugurated a 

 series of lectures on subjects connected with the 

 practice of the art, to be delivered by accepted 

 authorities on the topics considered. These were 

 begun in December, 1889. An appropriation of 

 $21,000 was made by the Legislature of Michigan 

 in 1889 for the enlargement of the building for 

 the School of Pharmacy and the Chemical Labo- 

 ratory of the University of Michigan, $16,000 of 

 which will be appropriated for building, and 

 $5,000 for heating, ventilation, cases, tables, and 

 fixtures. Student tables for 125 will be fur- 

 nished in the department of pharmacy. A 

 School of Pharmacy was established by the 

 Legislature of Minnesota in 1890 as a department 

 of the State University, in St. Paul. A depart- 

 ment of pharmacy of the Detroit College of 

 Medicine in Detroit, Mich., began its first session 

 on Jan. 5, 1891. The Brooklyn College of Phar- 

 macy was organized in July, 1891, and began its 

 first course in Oct. 5, 1891. The Atlanta Medi- 

 cal College of Atlanta, Ga., inaugurated a de- 

 partment of pharmacy on Oct. 7, 1891. The 

 School of Pharmacy connected with Cornell 

 University proved unsuccessful, and it was dis- 

 continued on the opening of the university in 

 the autumn of 1891. 



Legislation. The great value of pharmaceu- 

 tical legislation has made itself apparent by the 

 efforts in various States to evade its fulfillment, 

 and it is gratifying to record that in nearly 

 every instance where prosecution was resorted 

 to the law was sustained. In New York a case 

 was carried to the Court of Appeals, where the 

 judge, in rendering his opinion, stated that 

 " public safety must be regarded as superior to 

 private rights." Action had been brought to 

 prevent the conducting of a drug store by a per- 

 son not licensed by the Board of Pharmacy. 

 Early in 1889 Texas and New Mexico passed 

 full laws restricting the practice of pharmacy ; 

 Florida followed with a new law in May. 1*S<) ; 

 and in October, 1889, the Georgia Legislature 

 passed a series of amendments recommended by 

 the legislative committee of the Georgia Phar- 

 maceutical Association and the Board of Phar- 



macy. Its most important features were a series 

 of sections against the adulterations of drugs and 

 chemicals, making it a penal offense to manu- 

 facture or sell any adulterated drug, chemical, 

 or pharmaceutical preparation, and defining 

 adulteration. An ordinance prohibiting drug- 

 gists from selling morphine, cocaine, etc., ex- 

 cept when ordered by a prescription from a phy- 

 sician, went into effect in San Francisco, Cat., 

 in 1889. In New York amendments to the law 

 were enacted during 1889, as follow : 1. That an 

 applicant for a license as a pharmacist or as- 

 sistant must be a resident of the place where 

 he proposes to practice or, if a non-resident, 

 must present an affidavit that he intends to 

 make such a place his residence, and that he 

 has not been refused a license elsewhere in the 

 State during the six months previous. 2. That 

 the widow or legal representative of a deceased 

 pharmacist who was registered may continue 

 the business provided the actual retailing, 

 dispensing, and compounding of medicines be 

 done onlv by a legally qualified pharmacist. 

 3. The phrase "usual domestic remedies" in 

 said act is hereby defined as follows, namely: 

 Medicines that from common use a knowledge 

 of their properties and dose has been acquired, 

 and includes only such remedies as may be safely 

 employed without the advice of a physician, 

 such as Epsom salts, Rochelle salts, salts of tar- 

 tar, borax, sulphur, magnesia, camphor, aloes, 

 myrrh, guaiac, arnica, rhubarb, senna, squills, 

 ipecac, and preparations of above ; also castor oil, 

 olive oil, origanum, spike, amber, winter-green, 

 peppermint and wormwood, glycerin, spirits of 

 niter, and other like remedies, but does not in- 

 clude opium, morphine, laudanum, strychnine, 

 arsenic, belladonna, aconite, and other poisons 

 requiring knowledge and pharmaceutical skill to 

 safely dispense, unless they be sold in original 

 packages or packages bearing the label of a li- 

 censed pharmacist. The phrase " rural districts " 

 used in said act is hereby declared to apply only 

 to small villages and country districts having less 

 than two stores where pharmacy is practiced. 

 The phrase "practice of pharmacy used in 

 said act is hereby defined as follows, namely : 

 The compounding of prescriptions or of any 

 United States pharmacopoeial preparation, or of 

 any substance to be used as medicine, or the 

 retailing of any drug or poison for medicinal 

 purposes. The law m Nebraska in 1889 was 

 amended so as to require three years' practical 

 experience in pharmacy before being eligible for 

 examination for the granting of temporary cer- 

 tificates of registration to the licentiates 01 such 

 other boards of pharmacy and graduates of col- 

 leges of pharmacy as may be deemed proper, 

 which shall be good only until the first regular 

 meeting of the board thereafter. Assistants 

 who have held certificates of registration in the 

 State for two consecutive years and had two 

 years' practical experience in pharmacy previous 

 to registration may register as pharmacists. 

 Every pharmacist must register annually, other- 

 wise his right to act ceases, and he is barred 

 from the practice until he shall pass a new ex- 

 amination. During the session in 1889 of the 

 Illinois Legislature its law was amended so that 

 any person is entitled to registration as a phar- 

 macist " who has had five years' practical ex- 



