Am.  Jour.  Pharm  ) 
Aug.,  1877  / 
Reviews,  etc. 
43  1 
the  rules  laid  down  by  the  science  of  pharmacy,  be  that  medicine  prescribed  by  a 
physician  of  one  or  the  other  school,  be  it  administered  to  a  patient  according  to 
either  theory  in  medicine ;  considering  that  a  good  pharmaceutical  education  can 
only  be  obtained  through  well-educated  pharmacists,  that  only  well-experienced 
pharmacists,  who  devote  their  time  and  power  to  study  in  their  own  profession,  can 
make  good  teachers  in  their  profession  5  that  a  physician  cannot  be,  as  a  rule,  and, 
according  to  the  nature  of  the  case,  a  good  pharmacist,  much  less  a  desirable  teacher 
of  pharmacy  5  considering  that  in  all  civilized  countries  the  instruction  and  educa- 
tion of  pharmacists  are  left  to  pharmacists  or  to  such  persons  who  make  different 
branches  of  pharmacy,  chemistry,  botany,  pharmaceutical  materia  medica,  toxi- 
cology a  special  study  ;  considering  that  an  imperfectly  established  school  of  phar- 
macy will  only  retard  the  establishment  of  a  good  institution  of  this  kind — will  do 
more  harm  than  good  by  granting  degrees  to  incompetently  educated  persons; 
considering  that  there  are  good  schools  of  pharmacy  in  the  Northern  and  Southern 
States,  and  the  establishment  of  imperfect  schools  would  be  a  disgrace  to  the  State 
and  no  advantage,  and  that  any  school  of  pharmacy  connected  with,  and  being  an 
appendix  to,  any  medical  college  can  only  result  in  neglecting  the  education  of 
pharmacists  and  in  granting  licenses  to  incompetent  persons ;  considering  that  it 
would  be  very  difficult  to  find  a  physician  who  would  be  able  to  give  effective  lec- 
tures and  good  instruction  in  pharmacy,  chemistry,  botany,  toxicology  and  other 
branches  of  pharmacy  : 
"  The  undersigned  members  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  the  State  of 
Georgia  do  herewith  protest  against  the  establishment  of  a  school  of  pharmacy  con- 
nected with  and  appended  to  any  medical  college  of  any  denomination,  and  espe- 
cially connected  with  the  Georgia  Eclectic  Medical  College,  and  petition  the  Court 
to  strike  from  its  charter  anything  relating  to  a  school  of  pharmacy  or  to  diplomas 
in  pharmacy." 
The  Association  of  American  Medical  Colleges  ,•  History  of  its  Organization,  its  Con- 
stitution, By-Laws,  Articles  of  Confederation  and  List  of  Members.  Detroit, 
1877.    Pp.  26. 
A  convention  of  representatives  of  American  medical  colleges  was  held  at  Phila- 
delphia in  June,  1876,  at  which  several  questions  relating  to  medical  education  were 
discussed.  A  permanent  organization  was  effected  at  Chicago  in  June  last  and  was 
at  once  joined  by  twenty-three  medical  colleges.  The  objects  are  "  the  advance- 
ment of  medical  education  in  the  United  States,  and  the  establishment  of  a  com- 
mon policy  among  medical  colleges  in  the  most  important  matters  of  college  man- 
agement." In  its  objects  and  organizations  the  association  is  similar  to  the  "  Con- 
ference of  Schools  of  Pharmacy,"  which  held  its  initiatory  meeting  at  Baltimore  in 
1870,  and  was  permanently  organized  at  St.  Louis  in  1871. 
Remarks  on  Sulphate  of  <3uinia.    By  Alexander  H.  Jones.    8vo,  pp.  16. 
The  pamphlet  is  intended  to  meet  the  arguments  and  often  misrepresentations  of 
those  who  would  have  Congress  repeal  the  duty  of  20  per  cent,  now  collected  from 
quinia  of  foreign  manufacture. 
