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Progress  in  Pliarmacy. 
j  Am.  Jour.  Pliarui. 
\    D.ccmh.M-,  1911. 
Ethical  Proprietaries. — M.  E.  Fussell,  in  a  paper  on  the 
dangers  of  certain  ethical  proprietaries  to  both  physicians  and 
public,  calls  renewed  attention  to  the  fallacy  of  using-  ready-made 
mixtures,  be  they  proprietary  or  official.  He  enumerates  the  mis- 
leading claims  that  are  made  in  connection  with  a  number  of  the 
more  popular  proprietary  medicines  and  points  out  some  of  the 
dangers  attending  their  use. — /.  Am.  M.  Ass.,  1911,  v.  57,  pp.  1194- 
1198. 
The  Responsibilities  of  the  Dispenser. — During  recent 
months  a  number  of  articles  in  medical  journals  have  called 
more  or  less  direct  attention  to  the  responsibility  of  the  pharmacist 
for  the  nature  and  purity  of  the  medicaments  dispensed  by  him 
on  physicians'  prescriptions.  There  can  be  no  doubt  but  that  mem- 
bers of  the  medical  profession  are  devoting  an  increasing  amount 
of  thought  to  the  problems  that  are  involved  and  that  pharmacists 
in  the  near  future  will  be  required  to  comply  with  the  requirements 
naturally  expected  of  them  or  submit  to  additional  and  possibly  irk- 
some restrictions  in  the  conduct  of  their  business. 
Among  the  many  subjects  that  have  been  recently  discussed  it 
will  suffice  to  call  attention  to  but  a  few,  so  as  to  point  out  the 
features  to  which  attention  should  be  directed  in  an  effort  to  solve 
the  problems  now  confronting  American  Pharmacy. 
The  Prescription  from  tfie  Physician's  Standpoint. — Dr. 
Thomas  F.  Reilly,  in  discussing  this  subject,  expresses  the  opinion 
that  the  confidence  of  the  medical  profession  in  the  integrity  of 
the  average  pharmacist  has  been  pretty  generally  shaken.  He  is 
afraid  that  until  the  pharmaceutical  societies  take  the  accusations 
that  are  being  made  against  retail  druggists  in  hand  and  punish 
without  fear  or  favor  the  distrust  now  existing  will  grow. 
He  thinks  it  would  be  quite  feasible  for  the  representative  medi- 
cal societies  to  certify  to  the  reliability  of  a  number  of  pharrha- 
cists  who  are  willing  and  able  to  supply  medicaments  of  the  re- 
quired standard. — American  Medicine,  1911,  v.  17,  pp.  528-532. 
Lack  of  Drug  Standardization. — Dr.  Walter  Eugene  Hurley 
expresses  the  belief  that  the  loss  of  confidence  and  the  resulting  in- 
difference toward  drug  therapy  has  been  brought  about  by  the 
clinical  failures  seen  every  day  by  the  average  physician.  He  fur- 
ther asserts  that  the  extent  of  variance  from  the  requirements  of 
the  U.  S.  P.  has  been  shown  to  be  so  great  as  to  leave  no  doubt  as 
to  the  unreliability  of  drugs  dispensed  in  the  routine  way.    He  also 
