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not  only  on  all  official  but  also  on  all  important  not  official  subjects, 
and  an  exhaustive  review  of  over  half  a  century's  progress  in  thera- 
peutics and  pharmacy. 
The  adoption  by  the  B.  P.  of  the  international  atomic  weights 
with  0=16  has  necessitated  the  recalculation  of  the  whole  of  the 
molecular  equivalents  throughout  the  book.  An  elaborate  thera- 
peutical classification  of  remedies,  a  list  of  remedies  for  special 
ailments,  a  list  of  the  spas  of  Europe,  classified  as  to  their  properties 
and  temperature,  are  also  included  in  the  work. 
It  is  easy  to  see  that  convenience  of  reference  is  studied  well 
throughout  the  book,  as  even  in  the  index  a  clear  distinction  in  type 
enables  the  preparation  to  be  classed  as  either  B.  P.  or  not  B.  P., 
the  official  name  being  printed  in  Roman,  all  the  others  in  italics. 
The  book  should  be  of  considerable  use  to  American  pharma- 
cists, as  the  preparations  of  the  United  States  Pharmacopoeia  are 
compared  with  those  of  the  British  and  also  with  the  French 
Pharmacopoeia. 
MODERN  MEDICINE  AND  ITS  SOCIAL 
RESPONSIBILITIES.1 
By  Frederick  R.  Green,  A.M.,  M.D., 
Secretary,  Council  on  Health  and  Public  Instruction  of  the  American 
Medical  Association. 
When  I  received  an  invitation  from  your  Program  Committee  to 
discuss  this  question  before  the  Utah  State  Medical  Association,  I 
gladly  accepted  the  opportunity.  There  is  to-day  serious  need  of  an 
increased  appreciation  of  the  social  responsibilities  of  the  medical 
profession.  As  these  are  largely  responsibilities  of  physicians  in  the 
aggregate  than  as  individuals,  it  is  important  that  they  should  be 
discussed  in  medical  organizations  and  should  become  the  basis  of 
intelligent  action.  The  unprecedented  growth  of  our  knowledge  re- 
garding disease  and  its  prevention  during  the  last  forty  years  and  the 
stimulus  to  scientific  research  which  has  come  through  the  newer 
methods  of  investigation  have  so  monopolized  the  attention  of 
physicians  that  the  greater  part  of  our  ability  and  energies  has  gone 
into  the  exploration  of  these  new  fields.    Knowledge  has  increased 
1  Read  before  the  Utah  State  Medical  Association,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah, 
September  30,  1914,  and  reprinted  from  North  West  Medicine,  December,  1914, 
and  January,  1915. 
