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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(  A.m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
1     March,  1908. 
itary  medical  practitioners  who  are,  I  believe,  in  many  instances 
honestly  trying  to  practice  the  healing  art  by  closely  adhering  to 
the  medical  teaching  that  has  come  down  through  the  ages, 
corresponding  in  part  to  the  so-called  Orthodox  Hindu  who  goes 
back  to  the  Vedas  for  his  religious  teaching.  There  are  those  who,  in 
the  recently  established  Ayur  Vedic  schools,  are  trying  to  combine 
the  ancient  and  the  modern  systems,  corresponding  to  the  Brahmo- 
Somaj  and  other  reform  societies. 
And,  lastly,  there  is  the  medical  science  that,  by  means  of  the 
English  Government  and  the  medical  missionary,  has  come  from 
the  West,  bringing  with  it  much  that  is  good,  not  a  little  of  which 
has  been  received  from  the  East,  to  which  it  is  brought,  something 
in  the  way  that  Christianity,  though  originating  in  the  East,  is  now 
brought  back  from  the  West. 
What  will  be  the  outcome  of  it  all  ?  As  concerns  religion,  it  is 
not  my  purpose  to  attempt  an  answer  here.  I  know  of  no  one  who 
has  attempted  to  answer,  as  regards  medicine. 
It  seems  not  too  much  to  hope  that,  as  the  years  go  by,  more 
attention  may  be  paid  to  Ayur  Vedic  medicine  by  all  students  of 
medicine,  and  that  that  which  is  good  in  it  may  be  incorporated  into 
a  system  which,  being  neither  that  of  the  East  nor  of  the  West, 
may  be  a  universal  system  of  medicine  whose  chief  object  shall  be 
the  amelioration  of  human  suffering  and  the  prevention  of  disease. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  THE  MORE  IMPORTANT  ADVANCES  IN  PHARMACY 
AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
BY  M.  I.  WlLBKRT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Food  and  drug  legislation  is  again  attracting  the  attention  of  all 
branches  of  the  drug  trade.  This  is  due  to  the  fact  that  in  a  num- 
ber of  States  the  Legislature  is  considering  the  enactment  of  laws 
more  or  less  in  harmony  with  the  Federal  Act  of  June  30,  1 906. 
The  Federal  law  has  been  in  operation  long  enough  to  demon- 
strate that  it  is  a  factor  for  the  bringing  about  of  better  conditions, 
despite  the  fact  that  it  comes  far,  very  far,  from  correcting  all  of  the 
abuses  that  it  was  expected  to  remedy. 
