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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pbarm. 
I  September,  1906. 
WEIGHT-TABLE  OF  ALL  WHO  HAVE  BEEN  MEMBERS  OF  THE 
CLASS  FOR  THREE  MONTHS  OR  MORE. 
Name.                    A  Pa- e  ?f  Weight.  Last  Ex-  Weight.  Gain.  No.  of 
Admission.  animation.             °  Weeks. 
1.  Minnie  E.  .  .  .  .July    3  102^  Jan.  12  114X  27 
2.  Elmer  C  July  12  ic6  Jan.    5  130^  24^  25 
3.  Zelek  P  July  12  131 K  Jan-  12  I7I  Z9lA  2& 
4.  John  H  July  18  131  Jan.  12  153X  22X  25 
5.  Samuel  T  July  27  142  Jan.    5  165X  23^  24 
6.  Maria  F  July  29  117  Jan.  12  138^  2i}4  25 
7.  Samuel  H  Aug.  7  125^  Jan.  12  132^  7  22 
8.  William  F  Sept.  2  145  Jan.  12  i66#  21X  J9 
9.  Patrick  C  Sept.  15  120^  Jan.  12  124  3^5  17 
Average  gain,  19.4  pounds. 
PROGRESS  IN  PHARMACY. 
A  QUARTERLY  REVIEW  OF  SOME  OF  THE  MORE  IMPORTANT  ADVANCES  IN 
PHARMACY  AND  MATERIA  MEDICA. 
BY  M.  I.  WlLBERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
The  Fifty-ninth  Congress  of  the  United  States  has,  so  far,  enacted 
several  measures  that  bid  fair  to  have  far-reaching  influences  on  the 
future  development  of  the  drug  and  apothecary  business,  and  will 
no  doubt  tend  to  hasten  the  advent  of  better  conditions  in  the  prac- 
tice of  pharmacy. 
By  far  the  most  interesting,  if  not  the  most  vitally  important,  step 
that  has  as  yet  been  made  in  the  progress  of  pharmacy  along  pro- 
fessional lines,  is  embodied  in  the  act  that  is  now  popularly  referred 
to  as  "The  Pure  Food  Law/' 
Pharmacists,  as  well  as  all  friends  of  true  pharmacy,  are  to  be 
congratulated  on  the  success  that  has  attended  the  efforts  that  have 
been  made  at  various  times  to  hedge  in,  or  to  at  least  partially  con- 
trol, the  fraudulent  and  even  criminal  practices  that  are  so  widely 
followed  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  what  pur- 
port to  be  medicinal  preparations.  Pharmacists  better  than  any 
other  class  realize  the  far-reaching  possibilities,  and  pharmacists  also 
know,  and  to  some  extent  appreciate,  the  ease  with  which  all  kinds 
and  classes  of  people  have  been  deceived  and  defrauded  in  connec- 
tion with  so-called  proprietary  or  patent  medicines.    While  it  is 
