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PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  RECENT  LITERATURE 
RELATING  TO  PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
By  M.  I.  Wii,bert,  Ph.M., 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
The  necessity  of  a  higher,  or  a  more  thorough  technical  educa- 
tion for  the  coming  generations  of  pharmacists,  is  being  actively- 
discussed  in  several  European  countries,  particularly  in  Germany 
and  in  England.  In  these  countries  it  is  generally  conceded  that  if 
apothecaries  or  pharmacists  are  to  retain  any  professional  standing, 
their  education  must  be  in  keeping  with  the  advances  that  have 
been  made  in  the  several  departments  of  science  more  or  less  closely 
related  to  their  occupation  or  profession. 
The  general  trend  of  this  discussion,  in  England,  is  well  illustrated 
by  several  papers  recently  published  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Journal 
(1904,  pages  78  and  82). 
"  University  Education  for  Pharmacists  "  is  the  title  of  the 
paper  contributed  by  Prof.  Robert  B.  Wild,  of  Victoria  University, 
Manchester.  In  this  paper  the  writer  recognizes  the  necessity  of  a 
further  and,  ultimately,  a  complete,  separation  of  the  trade  or  com- 
mercial branches  from  the  professional  or  scientific  portion  of  the 
pharmacist's  occupation. 
One  of  the  reasons  for  the  present  depressed  condition  of  phar- 
macy Mr.  Wild  finds  in  the  fact  that  pharmacists,  as  a  class,  have 
not  maintained  the  intellectual  superiority  over  the  general  public, 
possessed  by  them  a  generation  ago.  He  believes  that  pharmacists 
must  adapt  themselves  to  the  advancing  scientific  requirements  of 
the  present  and  the  future,  and  unless  they  are  willing  to  allow  the 
legitimate  development  of  the  scientific  portion  of  their  profession 
to  be  taken  up  by  others,  they  must  appreciate  and  provide  the 
equivalent  of  a  university  training  for  the  pharmacist  of  the  future. 
This  paper  by  Professor  Wild  contains  many  suggestions  that  are 
applicable  to  the  conditions  existing  at  the  present  time  in  our  own 
country.  Here,  as  in  England,  we  have  come  to  the  parting  of  the 
ways,  and  in  the  very  near  future  there  will  be  a  need  for,  and  also  a 
due  appreciation  of,  the  scientifically  inclined  and  properly  educated 
pharmacist  who  is  willing  and  able  to  occupy  relatively  the  same 
