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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
{Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
December,  1910. 
real  practical  knowledge  of  none.  In  consequence  his  knowledge 
of  the  action  and  uses  of  even  the  most  important  drugs  is  often 
vague  and  imperfect  (/.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  1910,  v.  55,  pp.  1292,  1302- 
I303)- 
List  of  Drugs  for  State  Board  Examinations. — Haines  and 
Fantus  call  attention  to  a  list  of  drugs  devised  by  the  Committee 
on  Pharmacology  of  the  Chicago  Medical  Society,  during  the  winter 
of  1908,  and  adopted  by  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Health  as  a 
guide  in  the  elaboration  of  its  examination  questions.  This  list 
contains  approximately  120  drugs  and  preparations  and  is  practically 
identical  with  the  list  mentioned  above  (/.  Am.  M.  Ass.}  1910,  v. 
55,  P-  1573)- 
A  Restricted  Materia  Medica. — William  J.  Robinson,  in  com- 
menting on  the  proposition  advanced  by  the  State  Medical  Exam- 
ining and  Licensing  Boards,  advising  the  restriction  of  materia 
medica  examinations  to  a  comparatively  small  number  of  drugs, 
asserts  that  it  is  certainly  better  to  know  100  drugs  well  than  1000 
badly. 
Pharmacopceial  Revision. — The  Pharmacopceial  Convention 
which  met  in  the  City  of  Washington  last  May  is  still  being  actively 
discussed  in  local  and  state  organizations  and  also  in  current 
journals.  In  a  recent  number  of  the  Pacific  Drug  Review 
(October,  1910,  pp.  16-20)  Mr.  Peder  Jensen  presents  some 
thoughts  that  are  well  worthy  of  consideration. 
Commenting  on  the  several  interests  represented  at  the  Con- 
vention he  says :  "  Of  these  the  medical  interest  was  perfectly 
legitimate,  commendable,  and  should  receive  the  recognition  and 
approval  of  the  pharmacists  of  the  United  States,  for  unless  the 
medical  men  are  given  an  opportunity  and  right  to  frame  up  the 
contents  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  to  suit  every  reasonable  demand  that 
they  might  present,  we  could  hardly  expect  that  all  the  past  or 
coming  missionary  efforts  to  induce  physicians  to  use  the  Pharma- 
copoeia should  bear  any  fruit." 
In  regard  to  membership  of  the  General  Committee  of  Revision 
he  says :  "  I  feel  personal  regret  that  more  medical  men  were  not 
accepted.  I  also  feel  personal  regret  that  the  Convention  should 
lower  itself  to  a  deliberate  piece  of  trickery  in  excluding  medical 
representation.  The  day  will  come  when  medical  men  will  have 
the  greater  responsibility  and  a  greater  claim  to  the  framing  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia." 
