Aroctober,%!m*}    Education  and  Legislation  in  Pharmacy.  477 
ation  is  not  too  much  to  ask  of  all  who  propose  to  become  phar- 
macists. They  are  more  than  justified  in  saying  that  to  admit 
primary-school  boys  to  the  ranks  of  the  pharmaceutical  profession 
is  conclusive  proof  of  utter  contempt  for  the  rights  of  the  public 
and  the  medical  profession  and  a  sad  evidence  of  the  low  estimate 
which  pharmacists  themselves  place  upon  the  importance  of  their 
services. 
Prof.  William  Procter,  Jr.,  whose  memory  we  are  specially  honor- 
ing at  this  meeting,  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  better  prelimi- 
nary education  for  the  apprentices  in  drug  stores.  Yet,  the 
apprentices  of  his  day  were  of  a  higher  grade  educationally  than 
those  of  to  day. 
The  opposition  to  respectable  educational  standards  comes  largely 
from  the  so-called  "  self-made  "  men  who  boast  that  they  succeeded 
without  education.  They  are  no  doubt  sincere.  But  a  self-made 
man  often  has  a  too  high  opinion  of  his  own  value  and  power  and  a 
too  low  opinion  of  those  who  are  better  equipped  than  he.  If  the 
want  of  education  insures  success  then  the  self-made  man  has  noth- 
ing to  boast  of.  The  self-made  man  who  is  really  great  and  strong 
is  he  who  fully  realizes  how  much  stronger  he  would  have  been  if 
he  had  not  been  self-made. 
Intelligent  men  want  neither  self-made  physicians  nor  self-made 
pharmacists. 
Our  Schools  of  Pharmacy. — At  this  writing  we  have  probably 
eighty-seven  schools  of  pharmacy.  There  have  been  several  births 
and  deaths  during  the  past  year. 
An  excessive  number  of  educational  institutions  is  not  an  unmixed 
blessing. 
Here  in  the  State  in  which  we  are  holding  this  meeting  there  are 
five  pharmaceutical  schools.  In  Ohio  there  are  eight.  It  is  impos- 
sible that  eight  pharmaceutical  schools  can  be  required  and  main- 
tained in  a  condition  of  reasonable  efficiency  in  any  one  State. 
I  have  no  recommendation  to  make  in  regard  to  this  embarrassing 
wealth  of  educational  machinery,  but  will  say  that  the  Boards  of 
Pharmacy  have  the  power  and  means  by  which  schools  that  are 
unable  or  unwilling  to  give  good  and  sufficient  courses  and  which 
are  not  properly  equipped  and  do  not  have  reasonably  sufficient 
resources  or  means  of  support  may  be  denied  that  recognition  which 
is  clearly  due  under  the  pharmacy  laws  to  all  efficient  schools. 
