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single  specialty,  including  surgery  itself;  for  take  away  from  surgery 
anesthesia,  a  subject  for  study  in  therapeutics,  take  away  antisepsis 
when  asepsis  is  not  possible,  and  modern  surgery  to-day  is  impos. 
sible  Pharmacy  has  played  no  unimportant  part  in  the  develop- 
ment of  medicine  to-day;  it  is  its  inseparable  handmaid. 
"  Dr.  Rice  was  not  one  of  those  who  could  tell  us  how  things  had 
to  be  done.  He  did  them.  He  so  mapped  out  the  scope  of  the 
Pharmacopoeia  that  in  1880  he  became  chairman  of  the  Revision 
Committee.  Again,  in  1 890,  he  was  chairman  of  the  Revision 
Committee, and  it  has  been  said,  and  I  believe  with  truth  and  justice, 
that  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  1890  stood  far  in  advance  of  any  Pharma- 
copoeia ever  brought  forth  even  under  the  most  auspicious  Govern- 
mental influences  in  any  country,  and  to  the  chairman  of  these  two 
committees  all  praise  should  be  due.  The  physician,  the  general 
practitioner,  is  the  jury  before  whom  all  special  procedures  and  all 
surgical  processes  must  pass.  Charles  Rice  pointed  out  the  defects 
and  the  means  by  which  these  defects  in  chemicals  and  drugs  could 
be  removed.  In  the  two  revisions  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  of  1880  and 
1890  Dr.  Rice  and  his  associates  gave  to  the  medical  profession  a 
standard  broad  enough  and  large  enough  so  that  any  legitimate 
disease  or  symptom  could  be  intelligently  treated.  Now  for 
the  1900  Pharmacopoeia,  which  opened  under  favorable  auspices, 
but  early  in  its  work  these  hopes  were  darkened  and  the  Revi- 
sion Committee  must  mourn  its  loss;  but  the  example  of  Dr. 
Charles  Rice  through  two  decades  is  an  inspiration  to  every  member 
of  that  committee  to  put  forth  his  best  and  his  noblest  efforts. 
Things  have  changed.  We  see  to-day,  thanks  to  Dr.  Rice's  work, 
more  interest  in  drug  therapeutics  than  at  any  other  time  in  the 
medical  history  of  the  day,  and  we  see  laboratories,  public  and 
private,  devoted  to  investigation.  We  find  men  more  eager  to  be 
trained  in  processes  which  may  result  in  the  healing  of  the  patient, 
and  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  now  and  then  a  doctor  will  proclaim  his 
skepticism  as  to  the  use  of  drugs  and  say  that  in  physical  thera- 
peutics, in  water,  air,  he  finds  all  that  is  necessary  to  cure  disease' 
the  physician  who  treats  his  patient  conscientiously,  for  the  good 
of  his  patient,  knows  that  now,  as  it  always  has  been  and  always 
will  be,  drug  therapeutics  will  play  an  important  part.  We  physi- 
cians recognize  pharmacy  as  a  profession,  and  physicians  have  as 
much  contempt  for  the  dispensing  physician  as  the  pharmacist  has 
