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gists and prescription clerks, of os nars and fluid 
ran and of laboratory synthes Few, indeed, 
e the physi cians who can m ee a , teaokawe or an 
alkaloid salt as well or as cheaply as the druggist 
the manufacturing chemist, and, under needful 
pestriotions, the latter are turned to by the balers 
s clothing, is more and 
more something to be ordered se arae “igh than a 
legitimate subject for home manufactu 
o it has come that the study of medion botany 
then to the medical student. He, indeed, is expected 
to know his botany well. He need not be a vegetable 
possibly be 
certain lines he must be a botanist. As a sea we 
find studies of this kind omitted from the medical 
curriculum proper and given place in that branch of 
ee rage which has ye to have a name an 
place —pharm 
Whether tanghe 3 in the iaieal school or the school 
af Pe , or the school of botany, the knowledge 
is of the most practical and useful character. A knowl- 
edge of the gape of plants will very often lead the 
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inguish one certain plant in all its forms from all 
