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Editorial. 
/  Am.  Jour.  Phariru 
\       Sept.,  1886. 
the  treatment  of  the  disease  empirically;  but  the  first — absolute  dis- 
continuance of  the  use  of  milk — I  regard  as  of  prime  importance. 
Of  course,  it  will  be  understood  that  attention  to  securing  fresh  air, 
and  to  other  hygienic  measures,  is  also  desirable. 
It  is  altogether  probable  that  an  amount  of  the  poison  which  would 
escape  chemical  detection,  might  be  sufficient  to  produce  poisonous 
effects  in  children. — Report  of  Michigan  State  Board  of  Health. 
Ann  Arbor,  July  12,  1886. 
EDITORIAL  DEPARTMENT, 
Pharmacy  in  France. — A  bill  is  pending  in  France  modifying  in  several 
respects  the  laws  now  in  existence.  The  important  features  of  the  new  bill 
may  be  summed  up  as  follows  : — 
The  practice  of  pharmacy  is  restricted  as  heretofore  to  those  possessing  the 
diploma  of  pharmacien  from  one  of  the  French  schools  of  pharmacy.  It  is 
proposed  to  have  hereafter  only  one  form  of  diploma,  to  abolish  that  for 
pharmacist  of  the  second  class,  and  to  remove  the  locality  restrictions  now 
applying  to  thoce  having  the  latter  diploma.  A  pharmacist  is  not  permitted 
to  conduct  more  than  one  store,  nor  to  deal  in  articles  other  than  such  belong- 
ing to  the  healing  art;  he  may  take  a  non- pharmacist  -  but  not  a  physician — 
as  partner,  but  the  business  must  be  earned  on  solely  by  one  legally  qualified. 
Physicians  are  permitted  to  furnish  medicines  only  in  cases  of  urgency,  or 
when  located  at  a  distance  of  more  than  five  kilometers  from  a  pharmacy,  but 
they  are  not  permitted  to  keep  o.  en  shop.  The  labels  must  bear  the  pharma- 
cist's name,  and  special  labels  must  be  provided  for  medicines  intended  for 
external  use.  The  pharmacist  may  sell  the  preparations  of  the  codex  under 
their  official  names,  and  may  furnish  without  the  prescription  of  a  physician 
simple  or  compound  medicines,  the  label  to  give  the  names  of  the  active 
ingredients  ;  but  certain  drugs  and  poisons,  which  will  be  duly  mentioned  in 
the  codex,  mast  be  furnished  only  upon  the  order  of  a  qualified  physician. 
A  list  of  harmless  drugs  and  preparations,  the  sale  of  which  is  intended  to  be 
free  to  all,  is  to  be  published  in  the  codex;  the  sale  of  all  others  will  be 
restricted  to  pharmacists.  For  the  benefit  of  their  own  members,  certain 
societies  will  be  permitted  to  have  pharmacies,  each  to  be  under  the  super- 
vision of  a  legally  qualified  pharmacist ;  the  pharmacies  of  hospitals  may  be 
conducted  under  the  supervision  of  the  medical  staff.  The  widow  or  heirs  of 
a  deceased  pharmacist  may  continue  the  business  for  one  year  under  the 
management  of  a  pharmacist.  The  codex  is  to  be  revised  every  ten  years  by  a 
commission  appointed  by  the  ministers  of  public  education  and  of  commerce,, 
and  consisting  of  an  equal  number  of  professors  of  medical  schools,  professor  s 
of  pharmaceutical  schools,  and  of  pharmacists  engaged  in  business;  two- 
