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EDITORIAL. 
Pharmacy. — so  important  to  the  druggist,  the  physician,  and  the  public. 
*  *  We  want  specimens  in  materia  medica,  botany,  chemistry, 
mineralogy,  books  and  chemical  apparatus.  One  or  many  will  be  thank- 
fully received,  and  promptly  acknowledged.  Duplicates  will  do  no  harm, 
and  may  be  very  useful. 
Similar  wants  are  probably  felt,  more  or  less,  by  every  College  of  Phar- 
macy. Keeping  in  view  the  tendency  of  modern  medicine  to  simplicity 
of  remedies  and  preparations,  the  discarding  of  old  and  the  introduction  of 
new  remedial  agents,  cabinets  of  materia  medica  and  of  pharmaceutical 
preparations  may  perhaps  never  be  considered  as  complete.  A  cabineUof 
chemical  apparatus  is  very  desirable,  but  of  equal,  if  not  greater  import- 
ance, is  a  cabinet  of  pharmaceutical  apparatus  and  utensils.  The  appeal 
of  the  Chicago  College  to  the  friends  of  pharmaceutical  education  would 
probably  be  endorsed  by  all  her  sister  institutions.  M. 
The  new  Medical  Law  of  Maryland. — The  General  Assembly  of  Mary- 
i  land  passed  in  January,  1867,  an  act  for  the  protection  of  the  public  against 
medical  imposters,  and  for  the  suppression  of  the  crime  of  unlawful  abortion. 
It  creates  "  the  Medical  Faculty  of  the  State  of  Maryland/'  which  consists 
of  all  physicians  in  Maryland  who  are  bona  fide  graduates  of  some  re- 
spectable Medical  College,  and  have  been  licensed  by  the  Board  of  Ex- 
aminers established  by  this  Act.  While  it  does  not  recognize  any  par- 
ticular school,  the*law  peremptorily  requires  a  good  medical  education 
before  any  one  is  allowed  to  practise  medicine:  and  in  consequence  there- 
of the  self-styled  doctors  will  hereafter  find  Maryland  a  rather  unprofitable 
locality  for  their  wondrous  cures,  if  the  law  is  faithfully  carried  out.  We 
hope  that  our  pharmacial  friends  in  Maryland  will  not  allow  the  subject  to 
rest  here,  but  endeavor  to  increase  the  safeguards  to  the  public,  and  to 
protect  themselves  by  the  passage  of  a  similar  law  relating  to  pharmacists. 
The  present  law  does  not  affect  the  true  pharmacist ;  it  strikes,  however, 
a  heavy  blow  at  the  venders  of  such  delectable  nostrums  aa  golden  pills, 
&c,  by  the  following  : 
Sec.  16.  And  be  it  enacted,  That  any  person  who  shall  knowingly  ad- 
vertise, print,  publish,  distribute  or  circulate,  or  knowingly  cause  to  be 
advertised,  printed,  published,  distributed  or  circulated,  any  pamphlet, 
printed  paper,  book,  newspaper  notice,  advertisement  or  reference  con- 
taining words  or  language,  giving  or  conveying  any  notice,  hint  or  refer- 
ence to  any  person,  or  to  the  name  of  any  person,  real  or  fictitious,  from 
whom,  or  lo  any  place,  house,  shop  or  office,  where  any  poison,  drug, 
mixture,  preparation,  medicine  or  noxious  thing,  or  any  instrument  or 
means  whatever,  or  any  advice,  direction,  information  or  knowledge  may 
be  obtained  for  the  purpose  of  causing  the  miscarriage  or  abortion  of  any 
woman  pregnant  with  child,  shall  be  punished  by  imprisonment  in  the 
penitentiary  at  hard  labor,  for  not  less  than  three  years,  or  by  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  five  hundred  nor  more  than  one  thousand  dollars,  or  both, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  Court,  and  in  case  of  fine  being  imposed,  one-half 
shall  go  to  the  informer. 
The  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  Khode  Island  passed  about  the 
