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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(    December,  1910. 
He  refers  more  particularly  to  the  fact  that  the  art  or  science  of 
medicine  has  been  practically  revolutionized  during  the  past 
twenty  years  and  that  its  practice  to-day  rests  on  certain  funda- 
mental sciences  which  were  scarcely  known  thirty  years  ago,  and 
then  points  out  very  clearly  that  sectarianism  no  longer  has  any 
reasonable  cause  from  existence.  The  article  is  commented  on 
editorially  in  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
(1910,  v.  55,  p.  1292). 
Medical  Education  in  the  United  States. — The  educational 
number  of  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association 
(August  20,  1910)  contains  brief  descriptions  of  the  medical 
colleges  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  that  are  legally  chartered 
to  teach  medicine.  Also  enumerates  the  foreign  medical  colleges 
and  discusses  educational  standards  abroad  and  at  home.  An 
editorial  in  commenting  on  the  report  points  out  that  the  total 
number  of  medical  students  in  the  United  States  for  the  year 
ending  June  30,  1910,  was  21,526,  a  decrease  of  619  from  the 
previous  year  and  a  decrease  of  1076  from  1908.  A  rather  signifi- 
cant indication  is  the  fact  that  the  total  number  of  graduates  from 
the  so-called  sectarian  schools  has  decreased  annually  during  the 
past  ten  years. 
Meeting  of  the  American  Medical  Association. — The  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  American  Medical  Association  have  decided  on 
June  27,  191 1,  as  the  date  for  the  opening  of  the  next  session  of 
the  American  Medical  Association,  in  Los  Angeles.  This  date, 
which  is  later  than  usual,  was  chosen  so  as  not  to  interfere  with 
the  men  connected  with  medical  colleges  and  was  also  thought 
to  be  more  generally  convenient  for  those  who  desire  to  take 
advantage  of  this  occasion  for  a  vacation  (/.  Am.  Med.  Ass.,  1910, 
v.  55,  P-  1558). 
Pharmaceutical  Education. — Wilhelm  Bodemann,  in  comment- 
ing on  the  Richmond  meeting  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  expresses  the  opinion  that  the  one  thing  that  impressed 
him  most  has  been  mentioned  least.  He  refers  here  to  the  formal 
call  on  the  "  Carnegie  Foundation "  to  report  on  the  pharmacy 
schools  of  the  country  much  in  the  same  way  that  they  had  re- 
ported on  medical  schools  (Pacific  Pharmacist,  1910,  v.  4,  p.  187). 
C.  S.  N.  Hallberg. — The  death  of  Prof.  Hallberg  brings  with  it 
a  serious  setback  to  pharmaceutical  education  in  these  United 
States.    For  many  years  he  was  one  of  the  foremost  champions 
