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Education  and  Legislation  in  Pharmacy. 
(  A  m.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  November,  1906. 
The  Board  of  Pharmacy  is  part  and  parcel  of  the  State  govern- 
ment. It  has  the  power  of  the  State  at  its  back  in  the  enforcement 
of  the  law  and  of  all  reasonable  rules  necessary  to  its  proper 
enforcement.  Like  other  government  commissions  the  Boards  of 
Pharmacy  not  only  can  but  must  learn  all  important  facts  having  a 
direct  bearing  upon  their  functions.  They  should  invite  the  opinions 
and  advice  of  men  whose  opinions  and  advice  may  be  of  value. 
They  should  invite  all  persons  and  institutions  directly  interested  to 
come  before  them  and  be  heard,  and  should  hear  them  attentively. 
The  Requirements  for  License  should  be : 
(1)  proper  age  or  maturity  and  responsibility; 
(2)  sufficient  mental  efficiency  attained  by  proper  preliminary 
general  education  ; 
(3)  sufficient  technical  and  professional  education  in  a  pharma- 
ceutical school;  and 
(4)  sufficient  practical  pharmaceutical  experience  or  training  under 
proper  conditions  in  pharmacies  where  really  pharmaceutical  work 
is  done,  including  the  dispensing  of  prescriptions. 
Satisfactory  fulfilment  of  each  of  these  requirements  should  be 
exacted  by  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  which  should  investigate  for 
itself  and  demand  such  evidence  as  it  may  deem  necessary. 
No  person  should  be  licensed  to  learn  or  practice  pharmacy  who 
has  not  had  one  or  two  years  of  high-school  education.  No  person 
should  be  licensed  to  practice  pharmacy  either  as  a  principal  or  as  a 
clerk  who  has  not  had  sufficient  drug-store  experience  of  the  right 
kind.  No  person  should  be  licensed  to  open,  conduct  or  manage  a 
drug  store  unless  he  has  had  at  least  three  years'  drug-store  experi- 
ence, has  served  at  least  one  year  as  a  registered  assistant,  and  has 
graduated  from  a  good  school  of  pharmacy. 
It  is  evident  that  to  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  graduation  from  a 
school  of  pharmacy  should  mean  nothing  more  and  nothing  less 
than  the  successful  completion  of  a  sufficient  quantity  of  educational 
work  of  the  right  sort.  The  educational  development  and  efficiency 
of  the  graduate  is  the  thing  wanted,  and  that  depends  upon  the 
quantity  and  quality  of  the  education.  The  title  or  degree  of  the 
graduate  has  no  definite  meaning,  whether  it  be  that  of  pharmaceu- 
tical chemist,  graduate  in  pharmacy,  or  bachelor,  master  or  doctor. 
The  work  at  the  school  is  all  that  counts  to  the  credit  of  the  grad- 
uate.   The  Board  should  therefore  inquire  what  he  did,  how  much 
