MICROANALYTICAL AND BACTERIOLOGICAL LABORATORY 401 



the ranks of those holding higher university degrees. Our eminent bacteri- 

 ologists and sanitarians are largely men with medical and university 

 degrees. Our leading botanists are from universities. The college of 

 pharmacy alone (but not by any means all of them) specialize along the 

 lines of pharmacy, pharmacognosy, toxicology and microanalysis. To a 

 lesser degree also in materia medica and m the chemical testing and assay- 

 ing of medicamenta. A few of the colleges prepare fairly well qualified 

 sanitary assistants, if not sanitary directors. Other branches of science 

 which may be taught in a college of pharmacy, such as botany, physiology, 

 pharmacology, sanitary science, and bacteriology, are simplified and 

 specially modified presentations of hke course as given in medical schools 

 and in universities. The common every day practices of pharmacy, 

 such as filling prescriptions, pill rolling and tablet making, cannot be 

 rated as science. These operations come under the head of art. 



4. As to microanalysis and bacteriology considered as practical 

 working specialties, the following is offered. 



(a). The two specialties go together and merge into one another. The 

 microanalyst should be quaUfied to do bacteriological work, and vice 

 versa, the bacteriologist must be prepared to do microscopical work. 



(b). The college course in microanalysis must be comprehensive and 

 should serve as a basis for the bacteriological work (the direct bacteriolo- 

 gical methods). 



(c). The course in bacteriology should be well flanked by the correlated 

 sciences, zymology, parasitology, serology, immunology and general 

 sanitary science. 



The following outline will serve to explain the scope of the correlated 

 sciences, microanalysis, bacteriology and sanitary science, and the prepa- 

 ration which is necessary to do efficient laboratory work. The subjects 

 outlined are to be taught in the third and fourth years of a college of 

 pharmacy having the usual university entrance requirements. 



Course I. General Microanalysis.— Four hours of laboratory work 

 each week, during the entire college year. This course is to be given 

 during the third year of the fuU four year course and is to follow the 

 laboratory course in pharmacognosy and in plant histology. 



A. THE MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION OF FIBER, FOODS AND DRUGS 



I. Examination of Fiber. 



I. Vegetable Fiber. 



(o) Cotton. Cotton cloth. Mercerized cotton cloth 



(b) Pasteboard. Wrapping paper. Tissue paper. 



(c) News-paper. FUter paper. Etc. 



(d) Book paper. Banknote. Etc. 



(e) Writing paper. 

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