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Editorial. 
f  Am.  Jotjb.  Phabm. 
\     Nov.  1,  1871. 
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The  Suffering  Pharmacists  of  Chicago  and  the  Northwest. — The  disas- 
trous conflagratioD  of  the  8th  and  9th  of  October,  which  laid  the  entire  business 
portion  of  Chicago  in  ashes,  destroyed  a  large  number  of  dwellings  and  ren- 
dered about  100,000  people  homeless,  has  fallen  very  heavily  upon  the  Chicago 
College  of  Pharmacy  and  upon  all  the  pharmacists  located  in  the  burned  dis- 
trict, which  embraces  the  entire  North  Division  and  the  South  Division  north 
of  Harrison  street,  the  West  Division  having  suffered  comparatively  little. 
Many  of  our  pharmaceutical  brethren  have  lost  all — their  business  and  their 
home  ;  the  result  of  years  of  unceasing  anxiety  and  toil  has  been  swept  away 
by  that  dire  calamity,  and  the  sufferers  have  to  begin  life  anew  upon  the  ruins 
of  their  once  cherished  homes.  The  tearful  eye  looks  with  sadness  upon  the 
heaps  of  ashes,  all  that  is  left  now  of  thousands  of  cheerful  homes  and  thriving 
business  places  ;  but  at  the  same  time  a  hope  is  kindled  in  the  brea'St,  that  the 
future  may  again  bring  days  of  bright  sunshine,  and  the  buoyant  energy  of  those 
pioneers  in  the  Western  prairies  dictates  that  the  young  giant  of  the  shores  of 
Lake  Michigan  shall  rise  again.  A  generous  charity  has  opened  the  hands  and 
pockets  of  all  more  fortunate  cotemporaries  ;  quiet  and  unpretending  have 
been  the  offerings  of  the  druggists  and  pharuiacists  in  the  different  sections  of 
our  country  to  assist  their  unfortunate  confreres  of  Chicago;  whether  located 
in  cities,  towns  or  villages,  they  cheerfully  extend  their  helping  hand  ;  even  the 
shores  of  the  Pacific,  though  separated  by  thousands  of  miles,  are  vieing  with 
the  older  sections,  and  have  already  sent  substantial  aid.  As  Chicago  will  rise 
again  from  her  ashes,  so  will  her  druggists  and  pharmacists  again  resume  their 
position  among  the  most  enterprising  and  energetic  of  the  fraternity,  and  the 
now  bleeding  wounds  will  gradually  heal. 
In  the  meantime,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the  generous  and  more  fortunate 
members  of  our  profession  will  not  relax  their  efforts  to  lighten  the  misfortune 
of  their  suffering  brethren  in  Chicago. 
The  opportunity  to  do  good  by  voluntary  contributions,  the  offering  of  loans, 
the  extension  of  credit,  &c.,  is  probably  also  offered  in  those  districts  of  .Vlichi- 
gan,  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota  which  have,  about  the  same  time,  been  visited  by 
prairie  and  forest  fires,  destroying  a  number  of  villages  and  towns,  and  with 
them,  undoubtedly,  the  property  of  many  pharmacists.  We  repeat,  do  not 
relax  the  efforts  to  lighten  the  misfortune  of  our  suffering  brethren. 
Pharmaceutical  Education  and  the  Michigan  University  School  of  Phar- 
macy.— The  report  of  the  nineteenth  annual  meeting  of  the  American  Pharma- 
ceutical Association  published  in  our  last  number,  contains  a  full  account  of 
the  action  relative  to  the  delegation  from  the  School  of  Pharmacy  of  the  Mi- 
chigan University ;  the  delegate  was  not  received  as  such,  although  he  was 
admitted  as  a  member. 
We  have  received  a  reprint  from  the  Michigan  University  Medical  Journal 
and  Pharmaceutical  Quarterly,  wherein  an  attempt  is  made  to  criticize  this 
action  of  the  Association ;  but  this  attempt  is  quite  abortive,  since  the  main 
