500  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  { A^'cfXer  i908im' 
D.  The  successful  applicant  will  be  entitled,  conformably  with 
the  "  Official  Code  of  Ethics,"  to  make  himself  known  to  the  public 
and  profession  as  a  "  Certified  Clinical  Chemist "  (or  by  some 
other  suitable  title). 
E.  The  "  Official  Clinical  Laboratory  Methods  "  will  have  been 
formulated  and  adopted  by  authority  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  and  the 
A.  M.  A. 
F.  The  "  Official  Clinical  Laboratory  Methods  "  will  be  subject 
to  criticism  and  periodic  revision  and  amplification  through  the 
automatic  operation  of  an  officially  prescribed  procedure  for  this 
purpose. 
G.  There  will  be  special  sections  upon  clinical  laboratory  methods 
at  the  annual  meetings  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  and  the  A.  M.  A. 
H.  Special  attention  will  be  paid  in  the  q  Bulletin "  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association  and  the  "  Journal "  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  to  this  new  .movement. 
/.  There  will  be  a  joint  standing  committee  of  the  A.  Ph.  A. 
and  the  A.  M.  A.  to  take  special  charge  of  a  propaganda  of 
education  of  the  medical,  pharmaceutic  and  lay  public — that  the 
physician  may  feel  it  his  duty  systematically  to  employ  the  certified 
clinical  chemist ;  that  the  pharmacist  may  equip  himself  and  his 
pharmacy  for  clinical  laboratory  work ;  and  that  the  lay  public 
may  become  alive  to  the  necessity  of  laboratory  information  in 
the  diagnosis,  prognosis  and  treatment  of  disease. 
/.  The  A.  Ph.  A.  and  the  A.  M.  A.  and  the  various  state  pharma- 
ceutic and  medical  societies  will  have,  by  concerted  efforts,  com- 
pleted such  arrangements  with  the  national  and  state  governments, 
that  properly  certified  druggists  will  be  employed  in  caring  for  a 
portion  of  the  colossal  volume  of  detail  laboratory  work  of  food 
and  drug  inspection,  etc.,  demanded  by  an  efficient  enforcement 
of  the  multitude  of  public  health  laws  for  the  control  of  foods, 
drugs,  hygiene  and  sanitation. 
Legal  Requirement  for  Licensure  Determines  the  Standard 
of  Pharmaceutical  Education. 
By  John  T.  McGill. 
The  author  considers  the  relative  value  of  drug  store  experience 
and  laboratory  work  at  college  and  expresses  the  opinion  that  while 
the  former  may  be  helpful  from  a  commercial  point  of  view  it 
