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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
June,  1908 
Association  (Jour.  A.  M.  A,  Vol.  L,  pages  1544,  1637),  contains 
much  of  a  suggestive  nature  that  teachers  and  others  interested  in 
pharmaceutical  education  should  take  cognizance  of  and  profit  by. 
Few  of  us  are  perhaps  aware  that  some  of  the  best,  as  well  as 
practically  all  of  the  worst,  medical  schools  in  the  world  are  to  be 
found  in  the  United  States.  At  the  present  time  there  are  335 
medical  colleges  in  the  civilized  world  ;  of  this  number  164,  or  48 
per  cent.,  are  in  the  United  States.  So  far  as  known,  proprietary 
schools  constitute  a  development  of  institutions  that  are  indigenous 
to  the  United  States,  where  they  constitute  a  fair  proportion  of  the 
schools  that  are  classed  as  deficient  both  as  regards  preliminary 
requirements  and  length  of  medical  course. 
Post- Graduate  Instruction  in  Sivitzerland. — The  first  of  a  series  of 
postgraduate  courses  for  pharmacists,  based  on  the  new  fourth 
edition  of  the  Swiss  Pharmacopoeia  was  held  in  the  Pharmaceutical 
Institute  of  the  University  of  Bern,  from  the  2d  to  the  12th  of 
March,  1908. 
This  initial  course  was  attended  by  thirty  registered  pharmacists, 
a  rather  high  attendance  when  one  remembers  that  in  the  whole  of 
Switzerland  there  are  but  520  apothecary  shops,  conducted  by  533 
registered  apothecaries.  {Schweiz.  Woch.-Schr.  f.  Chem.  u.  Phar.y 
1908,  page  208.) 
A  French  Formulary. — The  general  Association  of  French  Phar- 
macists has  nominated  five  of  its  members  to  form,  with  an  equal 
number  of  members  of  the  Pharmacists'  Association  of  the  Loiret 
Department,  the  committee  for  drawing  up  a  formulary  of  medica- 
ments.   {The  Chem.  and  Drug.,  April  18,  1908,  page  584.)' 
A  New  Swedish  Pharmacopceia. — The  recently  published  eighth 
edition  of  the  Swedish  is  practically  out  of  print,  and  in  view 
of  the  many  changes  that  would  be  necessitated  by  the  inclusion 
of  the  Protocol  of  the  International  Conference  for  the  Unification 
of  the  Formulae  of  Potent  Medicaments,  the  Revision  Commission 
has  decided  to  prepare  and  to  publish  a  revised  ninth  edition  of 
the  Swedish  Pharmacopoeia.    (Phat.  Post,  1908,  page  398.) 
The  Standardization  of  Tetanus  Antitoxin. — Hygienic  Laboratory 
Bulletin,  No.  43,  March,  1908,  contains  a  detailed  description  of  the 
work  that  has  been  done  in  connection  with  the  newly  adopted 
American  standard  for  tetanus  antitoxin. 
This  American  unit,  established  under  the  Act  of  July  1,  1902,  is 
