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Editorial. 
(  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\    September,  1920. 
tion  and  even  if  a  lozenge  board  or  a  lozenge  cutter  is  not  in  the 
equipment,  the  troches  can  be  readily  made  extemporaneously 
with  the  common  utensils,  mortar,  pestle  and  spatula  which  are 
necessarily  at  hand  in  every  drug  store.  The  Pharmacopoeia,  pre- 
sumable for  self-evident  reasons,  gives  very  simple  instructions  for 
the  manipulation  in  this  formula  and  leaves  to  the  judgment  and 
the  art  of  the  dispenser  the  method  of  dividing  and  even  the  shape  of 
the  troche  so  that  he  is  at  liberty  to  improvise  in  these  matters  as 
occasion  may  require.  The  preparation  of  emulsions  of  cod  liver  oil, 
compound  laxative  pills  and  of  gelatin  coated  pills  on  prescription, 
requires  no  unusual  skill  or  exhibition  of  the  art  of  the  apothecary 
and  every  graduate  of  a  school  of  pharmacy  should  have  been  taught 
in  the  school  not  only  the  theories  of  such  operations  but  acquired  by 
practical  work  the  skill  essential  to  compounding  such  on  physician's 
prescriptions.  The  processes  named  are  merely  practical  exhibitions 
of  the  art  of  pharmacy  and  not  beyond  the  ability  of  a  tyro. 
They  are  in  the  line  of  the  professional  duty  of  the  pharmacist 
and  the  service  which  he  owes  to  society  and  constitute  his  part  in 
the  great  medical  professions.  When  these  so  called  pharmacists 
failed  to  perform  their  bounden  duty  and  to  practice  the  true  art  of 
pharmacy,  they  injured  not  themselves  alone  but  the  entire  profes- 
sion of  pharmacy.  Without  the  proper  exercise  of  the  art  and  the 
development  that  comes  from  actual  practice  there  can  be  no  prog- 
ress of  the  profession.  It  is  humiliating  to  those  who  have  devoted 
their  best  efforts  in  behalf  of  pharmacy  that  such  incidents  should 
occur.  The  pharmacists  of  America  and  especially  those  associated 
with  pharmaceutical  education,  should  take  from  Dr.  Eggleston's 
communication  a  timely  lesson  as  to  the  insufhciency  of,  and  defects 
in  pharmacuetical  education  and  practices. 
G.  M.  B. 
A  QUESTIONABLE  DECISION. 
Under  the  caption  "Copyright  Trade  Mark  Declared  the  Sole 
Property  of  the  Centaur  Company,"  the  Canadian  Druggist  for 
July,  1920,  informs  its  readers  that:  "In  the  Practice  Division  of 
the  Superior  Court,  Mr.  Justice  Duclos  delivered  judgment  in  the 
case  of  the  Centaur  Co.  z;^.  the  American  Druggists'  Syndicate,  Ltd., 
enjoining  the  use  of  the  name  Castor ia  in  connection  with  the  sale  of 
any  medical  laxative  preparation  not  manufactured  by  the  Centaur 
Co." 
