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more  chemical  experts,  to  bring  an  enlightened  judgment  to  bear  as  to 
the  characteristics  and  tests  of  standard  excellence  •  in  the  organic,  and 
in  the  inorganic  departments  of  the  Materia  Medica  ;  and  fourth,  one 
or  more  pharmacal  experts  to  consider  well  the  preparations  and 
processes  to  be  adopted  in  the  Pharmacopoeia.  No  subsidiary 
employment  of  special  technical  experts  ("  under  direction  of  the 
council  "  p.  53)  can  possibly  supplement  a  lack  of  these  powers  and 
capacities  in  the  executive  Commission  itself,  however  desirable  such 
employment  of  additional  skill  may  be  in  assisting  such  powers  and 
capacities.  No  single  man  or  class  of  men  can  possibly  embody,  in 
sufficient  degree,  this  necessary  range  of  culture  and  attainment. 
And  yet  our  enterprising  innovator  is  so  bent  on  having  the  coveted 
work  medically  done  (well,  if  possible,  but  if  ill,  still  medically  done,) 
that  anticipating  a  failure  to  secure  the  co-operation — we  mean  sub- 
operation — of  "  pharmacy,*'  he  has  made  full  provision  for  "running 
the  machine  " — "  in  case  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association 
should  decline  this  invitation  (p.  41.)  as  it  is  "necessary  to  provide 
in  the  organization  of  the  council,  against  any  miscarriage  of  the  work." 
(P-  53-) 
Were,  then,  the  previous  declarations  that  "  a  pharmacopoeia  with- 
out pharmacy  would  be  a  theory  without  practice  (p.  7.)  "that  it 
would  be  almost  as  impracticable  to  manage  the  interests  involved  in 
the  Pharmacopoeia  without  the  co-operation  of  pharmacy,  as  for  phar- 
macy to  manage  them  without  medicine  (p.  8.)  and  "  that  the  phar- 
macists and  physicians  should  unite  in  making  the  Pharmacopoeia 
(p.  22.)  were  these  declarations  intended  to  be  taken  in  a  "  Pick- 
wickian "  sense  ?  And  is  the  plan  matured  that  in  case  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  should  be  innocent  enough  to  accept  an 
invitation  "under  the  fully  recognized  leadership"  of  the  superior 
representative  body,  the  pharmacists  shall  ultimately  be  "  invited  "  out 
by  the  competent  and  plenary  authority  which  invited  them  in,  when 
the  proper  time  shall  have  arrived,  and  the  new  departure  may  be  con- 
sidered to  have  been  fully  established  ? 
"  Medicine  and  pharmacy,  without  their  natural  connection  and  de- 
pendence upon  each  other,  would  soon  lose  their  utility  to  mankind  !" 
(p.  7.)  "Pharmacy  is  one  of  the  specialties  of  medicine,  and  bears  a 
closer  relation  to  general  medicine  than  any  other  specialty  j"  (p.  49.) 
