496  The  Old-Fashioned  Pharmacist.      {  Kmjliyr\^m' 
of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association.  The  possibilities  of 
such  organization  for  pharmacy  have  not  been  fully  appreciated, 
but  we  do  know  the  great  power  that  has  come  to  the  American  Med- 
ical Association  because  in  its  House  of  Delegates  all  state  medical 
associations  are  represented. 
The  movement  for  federating  the  drug  industries  is  also  a  sub- 
ject for  our  earnest  consideration.  There  are  common  interests  in 
all  branches  of  the  drug  trade;  there  are  activities  that  can  be  de- 
veloped and  great  benefits  to  be  derived  by  coordination  and  coop- 
eration. 
Cooperation  is  an  essential  of  loyalty,  not  only  an  obligation  to 
uur  country  but  also  to  the  activities  in  which  we  are  engaged. 
By  mutual  action  and  by  mutual  aid 
Great  deeds  are  done — associations  made. 
The  wise  new  backbone  in  the  wise  inspire, 
And  one  hard  worker  fans  another's  fire. 
WANTED— THE   OLD-FASHIONED  PHARMACIST1 
By  J.  W.  England,  Ph.M. 
Jnder  the  caption  of  "  Wanted — The  Old-Fashioned  Doctor," 
die  following  editorial  has  recently  appeared  in  the  Philadelphia 
Public  Ledger: 
As  the  shortage  of  doctors  continues  to  make  itself  manifest  in  civilian 
life  it  is  being  made  clear  to  the  most  thoughtless  that  what  the  medical 
schools  should  turn  out  in  greater  numbers  and  what  the  country  needs  is  the 
good,  old-fashioned,  all-around  general  practitioner.  In  many  ways  the  tend- 
ency of  medical  education  of  recent  years  toward  concentration  in  the  matter 
of  schools  and  extreme  specialization  and  standardization  has  not  only  re- 
duced the  number  of  doctors  as  a  whole,  but  seriously  cut  down  those  who 
cared  for  or  were  trained  for  general  practice.  It  is  now  seen  this  practice 
was  not  altogether  the  wisest  of  courses.  The  highest  of  standards  for  ad- 
mission to  medical  schools,  it  may  be  said,  should  be  maintained  in  these 
days  of  advanced  sanitation  and  advanced  methods  of  preventive  medicine; 
but  with  these  high  standards,  which  have  had  the  effect  of  cutting  down  the 
supply  of  students  and  therefore  of  doctors,  it  would  seem  as  if  something- 
should  have  been  done  before  the  war  to  increase  the  attractiveness  of  the 
1  Presented  at  annual  meeting  of  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion, Wilkesbarre,  June,  1918. 
