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Too  frequently  are  physical,  chemical  and  physiological  incom- 
patibilities contained  in  even  one  prescription,  and  this  means  the 
defeat  of  the  very  purposes  intended.  It  emasculates  medicine  of 
its  intrinsic  value,  and  supplies  to  suffering  humanity  a  false  trust ; 
it  robs  pharmacy  of  its  science  and  art ! 
The  sum  total  of  results  of  such  deplorable  incompetence  are  the 
growth  and  development  of  a  like  valueless  group  of  "  pathies,"  the 
prescribing  of  all  sorts  of  worse  tha?i  useless  compounds  and  mixtures 
— the  annihilation  of  the  art  of  therapeutics,  seriously  endangering 
both,  and  the  belittlement  of  pharmacy  and  the  growth  and  thriving 
©f  a  debased  commercialism^  which  bids  fair  to  prolong  the  inade- 
quateness  of  pharmacy  and  medicine  to  benefit  mankind,  as  their 
created  and  inherent  powers  enable  them  to  do,  where  qualification 
is  a  sine  qua  non  for  its  followers. 
To  correct  this  malignant  defect  demands  intelligent  co-operation 
on  the  part  of  each  by  each.  The  students  entering  the  respective 
callings,  from  the  present  on,  must  be  individuals  of  a  broader 
training  and  higher  education ;  their  study  and  teaching  and  train, 
ing  must  be  of  a  standard  yet  to  be  established  !  A  rational  curric 
ulum  for  each  is  to  be  founded  and  administered  to  the  full,  with  an 
eye  single  to  the  magnitude  of  the  interests  involved,  for  the  enor- 
mity of  the  attaching  responsibilities,  and  for  the  greatest  good  of 
fellowman. 
When  such  will  have  been  achieved,  the  proper  relation  between 
the  sciences  and  art  of  pharmacy  and  medicine  will  be  established, 
and  mankind  profit,  and  be  made  secure  against  his  greatest  enemy 
— disease,  deformity  and  injur)/. 
Sociologic  evolution  finds  pharmacy  and  medicine  regulated  by 
Boards  of  Examiners.  Their  establishment  here  encountered  bitter 
opposition,  and  their  operation  much  adverse  criticism,  and  while 
glaring  defects  characterize  these,  efforts  to  perfect  and  not  to  be- 
little  should  prevail. 
The  existence  of  statutory  control  of  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
and  medicine  is  proof  of  a  commercial  degeneracy  from  the  highest 
standard  of  proficiency  to  low  and  dangerous  practices  by  ignorant 
and  incompetent  practitioners  of  both. 
The  welfare  of  the  people  demands  protection  against  the  evil 
consequences  of  incompetent  pharmacy  and  medicine,  and  a  too 
firmly  entrenched  and  unprincipled  commercialism  still  commands 
