224  The  United  States  PJiarmacopceia  and  {Km'^]\l^m' 
not  even  excepting  the  specialty  of  practical  therapeutics,  or  the  heal- 
ing art  itself. 
"  How,  now,  can  medicine  do  without  pharmacy  ?  The  answer 
here  seems  equally  plain,  that  it  could  not  do  without  it  at  all,  and  that 
it  would  be  very  unwise  to  attempt  it,  unless  pharmacy,  acting  as  a 
separate  profession,  should  force  the  irrational  and  unnatural  discord." 
(p.  49.)  But  Pharmacv  unquestionably  is  "  a  separate  profession,"  in 
the  same  sense, and  to  the  full  extent  that  Therapeutics  or"  Medicine" 
is  a  separate  profession.  The  answer  here  "  seems  equally  plain  :" 
pharmacy  could  not  well  do  without  "  medicine,"  and  it  would  be  very 
unwise  to  attempt  it,  unless  medicine,  41  acting  as  a  separate  profession, 
should  force  the  irrational  and  unnatural  discord  !" 
Our  author  has  deliberately  published  his  "  proposed  plan  for  the 
future  management  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  to  be  submitted  to 
the  American  Medical  Association  at  its  Annual  Meeting  in  Chicago 
in  June,  1877."  (p.  30.)  If  the  military  aptness  displayed  by  the  con- 
templated procedure  of  confiscation  is  striking,  still  more  remarkable 
if  possible  is  the  stratagetic  combination  suggested  to  get  rid  of  the 
superfluous  incumbent,  the  surviving  organization  thus  sought  to  be 
despoiled.  "  That  can  be  easily  done,  for  the  American  Medical 
Association  can  say  next  year,  if  it  chooses,  to  those  bodies  which  are 
at  present  represented  in  the  Association,  and  were  represented  in  the 
last  decennial  Convention,  that  the  Association  has  decided  to  take 
possession  of  the  Pharmacopoeia,  and  asks  such  bodies  if\t  be  in  their 
judgment  a  proper  move  to  make,  to  send  delegates  with  authority  to 
transfer  allegiance  from  the  National  Convention  to  that  Association. 
Then,  if  complied  with,  the  matter  is  plain,  for  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association  can  pass  a  resolution,  asking  that  the  President  of  the 
National  Convention  shall  not  call  the  Convention  in  1880  !"  (p.  23.) 
The  general  method,  if  ingenious,  is  not  entirely  unprecedented  ; 
for  (if  Dr.  Squibb  will  pardon  the  metaphor)  this  is  not  the  first  time 
that  an  assassination  has  been  contrived  to  wear  the  guise  of  a  suicide. 
Two  subjects  of  surprise,  however,  are  occasioned  by  this  passage  ; 
the  first  is  the  "assumption"  of  authority  over  the  constituent  bodies 
represented  in  the  Association  ;  (though  we  do  miss  the  word  "  direct,") 
and  the  second  is  the  further  "assumption"  that  these  constituent 
bodies  can  control  the  Convention.  In  Dr.  H.  C.  Wood's  excellent 
pamphlet,  in  reply  to  Dr.  Squibb,  it  is  stated  that  "out  of  the  thirty- 
