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connection  with  the  practice  of  medicine."  And  this  includes  phar- 
macy or  the  manufacturing  of  medicines  for  therapeutic  use.  The 
making  of  money  is  the  mainspring  of  commerce,  and  while  money- 
making  is  not  wrong,  per  se,  medicine  (including  pharmacy)  has  a 
higher  and  a  nobler  aim.  If  it  be  not  so,  our  widely  uttered  claims 
of  being  a  liberal  profession  are  false,  and  a  large  proportion  of 
what  we  may  call  the  non-scientific  part  of  medical  literature 
(including  most  addresses  to  graduating  classes  in  medicine  and 
pharmacy  and  to  societies)  is  the  veriest  talking  for  effect. 
CONCLUSION. 
Shall  we  have  a  profession  of  pharmacology?  Yes.  But  the 
scope  and  title  of  that  profession  should  be  enlarged  to  include  the 
co-operative  practice  of  the  pharmacologic  arts  by  physicians,  phar- 
macists, physiologists,  botanists,  chemists,  and  all  others  engaged  in 
investigating  and  classifying  the  materia  medica,  and  in  selecting, 
preparing,  preserving,  compounding,  and  dispensing  drugs,  and  in 
applying  them  to  the  treatment  of  the  sick. 
How  shall  we  have  a  profession  of  pharmacology?  That  ques- 
tion cannot  be  answered  in  a  paragraph  or  page.  Only  by  complete 
study  of  the  subject,  along  the  lines  I  have  mapped  out,  can  the 
answer  be  ascertained. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
By  M.  I.  Wilbert,  Washington,  D.  C. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  MORE  INTERESTING  LITERA- 
TURE RELATING  TG  PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
The  leading  topic  for  discussion,  in  medical  circles  at  least,  is 
the  possible  influence  of  the  report  of  the  Carnegie  Foundation  on 
the  advancement  of  medical  education,  and  the  really  serious 
attempts  that  are  being  made  by  medical  schools  generally  to  raise 
their  requirements  for  admission  as  well  as  improve  on  their 
facilities  for  teaching. 
Medical  Education. — An  interesting  illustration  of  the  pos- 
sibilities is  evidenced  by  an  article  by  Henry  S.  Pritchett,  president 
of  the  Carnegie  Foundation  for  the  Advancement  of  Teaching, 
in  a  recent  number  of  The  Outlook,  on  how  to  study  medicine. 
