ii  8  The  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  and  {Am\l°y]\l^m: 
its  control  ?  The  united  interests  of  medicine,  and  not  the  interests  of 
any  separate  part."  (p.  22.)  The  writer  says  very  correctly,  that 
44  Pharmacy  is  but  a  specialty  of  medicine."  (p.  22.)  In  stating  and  in- 
sisting on  this  fact,  however,  he  seems  not  to  have  recognized  u  its 
other  side,"  that  medical  practice  has  also,  by  the  very  same  operation, 
become  specialized.  The  physician  is  no  longer  a  druggist  as  he  once 
was  ;  and  this  differentiation  but  illustrates  the  universal  law  of  growth 
and  development.  When,  therefore,  Dr.  Squibb  reiterates  "  the  united 
interests  of  the  united  parts  is  found  in  this  country  in  the  American 
Medical  Association,  and  nowhere  else,"  (p.  22.)  he  mistakes  utterly. 
The  interests  of  medicine  are  found  in  this  country  just  as  much  in  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  The  "  united  interests  "  are 
obviously  found  in  neither  representative  body  separately.  When  he 
adds,  "  By  right,  every  pharmacist  should  be  a  member  of  the  medical 
profession  by  education,  and  should  then  be  a  member  of  the  Amer- 
ican Medical  Association,  for  there  is  where  he  belongs,  to  practice 
one  of  its  specialties,"  (p.  22.)  he  evidently  fails  to  realize  that  general 
law  of  organic  evolution,  that  specializations,  when  once  established, 
may  either  survive  and  grow,  or  may  decline  by  atrophy  ;  but  that  they 
never  merge.  He  argues  as  though  the  therapeutist,  after  successive 
44  specializations,"  still  retained  the  original  "  comprehensive  type.'1' 
When  he  says  that  44  wherever  the  organization  is  found  which  em- 
braces the  general  interests  of  medicine,  it  is  there  that  the  Pharma- 
copoeia should  go,  for  it  is  there  that  it  belongs,"  (p.  22.)  he  has  estab- 
lished very  clearly  that  at  least  it  cannot  properly  go  to  the  American 
Medical  Association,  even  if  that  body  possessed  the  moral  and  legal 
authority  to  44  appropriate  "  it. 
Referring  to  the  profession  of  pharmacy,  he  says,  44  It  happens  that, 
from  being  the  first  and  oldest  specialty  which  grew  out  of  medicine, 
it  has  erected  itself  into  a  special  art  or  profession,  and  shows  a  ten- 
dency to  claim  independence  of  the  medical  profession,  and  a 
co-equality.  To  appreciate  how  unreasonable  such  a  claim  would  be, 
if  ever  seriously  made  by  pharmacy,  it  is  only  necessary  to  remember 
that  medicine,  in  order  to  do  without  pharmacy  as  a  profession,  has 
only  to  compound  and  dispense  its  own  remedies  to  its  own  patients." 
(p.  49.)  Here  again  we  have  the  latent  impression  that  the  physician 
still  retains  his  ancient  44  comprehensive  type  that  he  has  only  tem- 
porarily (as  it  were)  laid  aside  the  gathering  of  simples,  and  may  at  any 
