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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  I'harm 
\      June,  1911. 
analytical,  organic,  and  pharmaceutical  chemistry,  physics,  botany, 
zoology,  materia  medica,  pharmacy,  bacteriology,  experimental 
pharmacology,  food  and  drug  examination  and  clinical  pathology. 
The  subjects  of  instruction  for  the  doctor's  degree  will  include 
all  of  the  above  together  with  physiology,  physiological  chemistry 
and  hygiene ;  attendance  at  anatomy  lectures,  demonstrations  and 
recitations  will  also  be  required. 
While,  theoretically,  this  proposed  course  in  pharmacy  would 
be  a  decided  and  timely  forward  step  in  pharmaceutical  education, 
there  can  be  no  question  as  to  the  impracticability  of  attempting 
to  develop  a  really  high-class  course  in  pharmacy  unless  the  uni- 
versity itself  is  in  position  to  adequately  endow  the  school  so  as 
to  make  it  entirely  independent  of  the  fees  to  be  secured. 
Medical  Education. — An  editorial  commenting  on  an  article 
in  the  Wiener  Klinische  Wochenschrift,  on  American  Medical 
schools  points  out  that  the  diploma  mill  and  the  commercial  medical 
school  are  unknown  in  Europe.  The  ignorant  but  mercenary 
physician  is  justly  regarded  there  as  a  grave  social  danger.  In 
these  directions  we  have  much  to  learn  from  Germany.  Only  by 
the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  high  standards  of  medical 
education  can  we  hope  to  retain  the  respect  of  other  nations  and 
to  effect  those  speedy  and  radical  reforms  "  which  conditions 
demand. — /.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  1911,  v.  56,  p.  1043. 
Present  Day  Conditions  of  Pharmacy. — In  an  address  de- 
livered at  the  joint  meeting  of  the  Wayne  County  Medical  Society 
and  the  Detroit  Retail  Druggists  Association,  Henry  P.  Hynson 
of  Baltimore,  asserts  that  the  hindering  practices  that  retard  the 
accomplishment  of  idealistic  conditions,  in  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
are  largely  due  to  incompetency  on  the  part  of  pharmacists,  and  the 
inability  on  the  part  of  some  of  the  physicians  to  appreciate  credit- 
able pharmaceutical  attainments  or  to  dififerentiate  between  the  true 
and  false  in  pharmacy. 
In  commenting  on  the  political  drawbacks  to  progressiveness  in 
Pharmacy,  he  asserts  that  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion has  not  had  the  support  and  interest  of  pharmacists  it  deserves. 
It  needs  stirring  up ;  its  enemies,  if  it  has  any,  are  not  sufficiently 
active  to  give  it  healthy  exercise.  It  is  cursed  with  politics,  con- 
servative, self-preserving,  holding  back  politics,  not  that  "  go  ahead," 
do  something  "  kind,  which  has  made  so  much  out  of  the  American 
Medical  Association  and  done  so  much  with  it.    That  kind  of 
