270  Pharmacy  Laws  in  the  U.  S.        {AjuS;  mT' 
bably  with  the  highest  honors,  but  according  to  the  standard  of  the 
Government ;  his  diploma  is  not  and  cannot  be  accepted  as  a  proof 
of  professional  qualification,  it  being  received  as  evidence  of  academi- 
cal acquisition  of  having  arrived  at  his  profession  in  a  systematic  man- 
ner ;  he  must  qualify  according  to  the  standard  of  the  Government, 
which  demands  professional  experience.  Here,  then,  the  Government 
does  for  the  army  what  it  must  do  for  the  people  ;,  but,  before  it  goes 
about  regulation,  it  must  first  establish,  or  at  least  recognize,  such  a 
thing  as  medicine  or  pharmacy,  and  maintain  and  enforce  its  Govern- 
mental standard  ;  it  cannot,  even  if  it  wished,  recognize  as  such,  the 
private  standard  of  an  incorporated  college,  which  is  only  a  private 
institute,  maintained  by  private  means  and  established  for  private 
ends. 
Medicine,  or  the  business  of  healing  diseases,  and  pharmacy,  or  the 
business  of  selling  drugs,  occupy  no  other  position  towards  the  peo- 
ple than  any  other  trade  ;  they  are  not  considered  as  professions  in 
our  country,  though  nobody  can  deny  that  they  are,  in  the  most  noble 
sense  of  the  term.  Jurisprudence  being  considered  a  profession  by 
the  Government,  it  maintains  a  standard  ;  for  after  a  student  has 
graduated  at  an  incorporated  or  private  school  of  law,  he  is  not  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  unless  he  has  proved  his  professional  qualification, 
because  the  Government  wants  law  and  order,  not  according  to  what 
is  law  in  England,  France,  Germany,  etc  ,  but  according  to  its  own 
standard,  which,  in  this  case,  is  its  constitution.  If  a  foreigner  was 
ever  so  proficient  at  the  bar  in  those  countries,  he  could  not  be  ad- 
mitted to  practice  his  profession  here  unless  he  had  proved  his  quali- 
fication according  to  the  Governmental  standard.  If  medicine  and 
pharmacy  were  professions,  and  so  acknowledged  by  the  Govern- 
ment, then  a  foreign  physician  or  apothecary  would  not  be  allowed 
to  practice  unless  he  had  proved  his  professional  qualification  ac- 
cording to  our  rules.  An  American  physician  or  pharmacist,  after 
he  has  graduated  in  our  colleges,  is  considered  entirely  incompetent 
to  practice  his  profession  in  France,  England  or  Germany,  unless  he 
has  conformed  to  the  requirements  of  those  States.  We  are  re- 
ceived with  the  greatest  politeness  and  respect,  but  practice  we  can- 
not ;  even  if  we  step  across  our  border  into  her  Britannic  Majesty's 
dominion  of  Canada,  we  cannot  do  this.  There  are  those  who  say  that 
this  is  a  free  country,  that  we  have  no  king  here,  etc.  ;  yet  what  is 
sauce  for  the  goose  is  sauce  for  the  gander.  Besides,  these  and  simi- 
lar reasons  are  but  sinister,  having  no  weight  in  this  matter. 
