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should  confine  his  attention  to  his  own  field  of  labor  and  not  indulge 
in  excursions  into  the  field  of  the  latter.  The  successful  shoemaker 
sticks  to  his  last,  and  it  naturally  follows  that  the  pharmacist  should 
stick  to  his  pestle  and  mortar.  Much  of  the  criticism  heaped  upon 
the  entire  pharmaceutical  profession  is  due  to  the  reckless  disregard 
of  the  rights  of  physicians  by  a  few  selfish  and  mercenary  pharma- 
cists. We  cannot  too  strongly  condemn  this  self-sufficiency,  and,  as 
members  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  let  us 
record  our  condemnation  of  such  practice. 
By  closely  observing  the  rights  accorded  to  the  physician  under 
the  act  regulating  the  practice  of  medicine,  much  of  the  bitter  feel- 
ing now  existing  between  pharmacists  and  physicians  will  be  dissi- 
pated and  ultimately  become  a  matter  of  history,  and  result  in  a 
warmer  and  more  harmonious  feeling  between  the  two  professions. 
Much  criticism  is  placed  upon  physicians  for  their  action  in  the  matter 
of  dispensing  their  own  medicines.  They  defend  their  action  by 
claiming  that  they  have  been  forced  into  it  by  a  custom  established  by 
the  homcepathists,  who  universally  dispense  their  own  medicines. 
Some  physicians  claim  they  have  been  obliged  to  do  so  by  the  phar- 
macist who  "  counter-prescribes."  This  is  one  of  the  parasitic  evils 
that  cling  to  our  profession. 
Let  us  meet  the  physician  more  than  half  way,  and,  by  denoun- 
cing all  transgressions  of  the  latter's  rights,  we  will  eventually  es- 
tablish ourselves  in  the  admiration  of  the  medical  fraternity,  and 
give  to  pharmacy  a  higher  position  in  their  estimation. 
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THE  SALE  OF  ALCOHOLIC  LIQUORS  UNDER  THE 
HIGH  LICENSE  LAW  IN  PENNSYLVANIA.1 
By  J.  A.  MiixER. 
One  of  the  effects  of  the  passage  of  the  high  license  law  was  to 
stop,  very  largely,  the  dispensing  of  alcoholic  liquors  in  small  quanti- 
ties, in  the  drug  stores  throughout  the  State.  It  was  always  a  great 
convenience  for  families  that  did  not  care  to  keep  a  supply  of  liquor 
in  the  house,  to  get  what  they  wanted  from  time  to  time  from  the 
1  Read  at  the  meeting  of  the  Pennsylvania  Pharmaceutical  Association,  June 
18,  1896,  in  answer  to  query  No.  4,  as  follows  :  "The  high  license  law  forbids 
the  sale  of  alcoholic  liquors,  except  upon  a  physician's  prescription.  Is  the 
law  a  wise  one,  and  is  it  generally  lived  up  to  ?  " 
