328  Future  of  Pharmacy  in  Germany.     {AMjui°y  ljis™' 
thereof  a  superior  status  of  pharmacy,  have  made  successful  progress, 
and  increased  facilities  for  attaining  this  aim  have  been  inaugurated 
by  the  establishment  of,  and  increased  attendance  at,  the  various 
pharmaceutical  schools.*  In  this  advance  movement,  pharmacy 
stands,  however,  by  no  means  alone  ;  generalization  and  unity  of 
sciences  on  the  one  hand,  and  education,  scientific  knowledge  and 
higher  intellectual  culture  on  the  other,  are,  as  already  stated,  the 
•demands  of  our  time,  and  this  tendency  pervades  in  our  country,  also 
all  classes  of  its  population  and  all  pursuits,  and  is  practically  exem- 
plified in  the  increase  and  prosperity  of  all  higher  educational  insti- 
tutions,— the  medical,  polytechnic,  commercial  and  other  colleges, — 
and  in  the  entire  literature  of  the  present  day. 
Pharmacy  in  this  country  will  therefore,  probably  meet  with  fewer 
difficulties  on  its  high  road  to  improvement,  and  the  less  so,  as  it  is  in 
the  happy  position  of  profiting  by  the  pharmaceutical  experience  and 
acquisitions  of  older  countries,  and  particularly  of  Germany,  without 
(having  to  undergo  the  struggles  and  errors  of  its  gradual  develop- 
ment extending  over  two  centuries.  The  problems  which  it  will 
inevitably  have  to  encounter  with  the  progress  of  time  and  civilization, 
I  have  briefly  referred  to  above,  and  they  are  more  fully  stated  in 
Mr.  Danckwortt's  and  Prof.  Hlasiwetz's  papers ;.  aside  from  other 
more  technical  and  less  important  arguments,  they  have  been  felt 
here  likewise  for  some  time,  and  have  been  repeatedly  and  timely  ex- 
pressed^ but  appear  not  to  have  received  due  consideration. 
The  lively  interest  taken  by  the  American  people  in  progress  and 
the  questions  of  the  times,  its  acceptation  for  new  ideas  and  their  prac- 
*Xf  no  other,  at  least  one  result  of  high  value  must  be  acknowledged  to  be 
due  to  the  continued  agitation  for,  and  the  enactment  of,  laws  regulating  the^ 
practice  of  pharmacy,  namely,  the  increased  attendance  of  the  pharmaceutical 
pupils  at  the  courses  of  the  colleges  of  pharmacy.  Although  this  attendance 
is  not  yet  dependent  upon  a  preliminary  examination  and  qualification,  and 
though  the  want  of  sufficient  primary  education  and  knowledge  is  a  priori  pre- 
judicial to  the  full  value  of  a  course  of  theoretical  study  compressed  into  so 
short  a  time,  capable  and  assiduous  young  men  will  find  at  least  the  path 
pointed  out,  and  receive  the  incitement  for  the  further  acquisition  of  knowledge, 
while  American  pharmacy  will,  for  the  next  generation,  be  supplied  with  new 
productive  heads  and  hands  for  its  scientific  continuance. 
f  Dan.  C.  Robbins,  Annual  Address,  Proceedings  Alumni  Association,  N . 
Y.  Coll.  Pharm.,  1872,  p.  34  and  ibid.,  1873,  p.  30. 
Chas.  C.  Fredigke,  in  Chicago  Pharmacist,  1874,  p.  36,  and  Am.  Journ. 
Pharm.,  1874,  pp.  209  and  205. 
Dr.  Streit,  in  Chicago  Pharmacist,  1874,  p.  72. 
