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"  The  nature  and  extent  'of  the  qualifications  required  must  de- 
pend primarily  upon  the  judgment  of  the  State  as  to  their  necessity. 
If  they  are  appropriate  to  the  calling  or  profession,  and  attainable 
by  reasonable  study  or  application,  no  objection  to  their  validity 
can  be  raised  because  of  their  stringency  or  difficulty.  It  is  only 
when  they  have'  no  relation  to  such  calling  or  profession,  or  are  un- 
attainable by  such  reasonable  study  or  application,  that  they  can 
operate  to  deprive  one  of  his  right  to  pursue  a  lawful  vocation. 
"  Few  professions  require  more  careful  preparation  by  one  who 
seeks  to  enter  it  than  that  of  medicine.  It  has  to  deal  with  all 
those  subtle  influences  upon  which  health  and  life  depend,  and 
requires  not  only  a  knowledge  of  the  properties  o"  vegetable  and 
mineral  substances,  but  of  the  human  body  in  all  its  complicated 
parts,  and  their  relations  to  each  other,  as  well  as  their  influence 
upon  the  mind. 
"  The  physician  must  be  able  to  detect  readily  the  presence  of 
disease,  and  prescribe  appropriate  remedies  for  its  removal.  Every 
one  may  have  occasion  to  consult  him,  but  comparatively  few  can 
judge  of  his  qualifications  of  learning  and  skill. 
"  Reliance  must  be  placed  upon  the  assurance  given  by  his 
license,  issued  by  an  authority  competent  to  judge  in  that  respect, 
that  he  possesses  the  requisite  qualification.  Due  consideration, 
therefore,  for  the  protection  of  society  may  well  induce  the  State  to 
exclude  from  practice  those  who  have  not  such  a  license,  or  are 
found  upon  examination  to  not  be  fully  qualified." 
The  same  principle  is  as  forceful  and  just  in  its  application  to 
pharmacy  as  it  is  to  medicine. 
Another  feature,  and  your  time  will  not  be  further  occupied.  As 
man's  interests  are  so  closely  related  to  our  respective  professions, 
we  find  ourselves  responsible  for  what  Marshall  O.  Leighton,  in  the 
Popular  Science  Monthly  for  June,  1902,  treats  under  the  title,  "  The 
Commercial  Value  of  Human  Life." 
Four  of  his  conclusions  are  presented  : 
(1)  The  pecuniary  value  of  life  is  subject  to  the  same  economic 
laws  as  are  applied  to  the  more  vulgar  commodities. 
(2)  In  the  courts  of  law  the  measure  of  an  individual's  produc- 
tiveness, which  is  the  measure  of  his  value,  receives  the  most 
careful  scrutiny  ;  therefore,  the  decisions  of  such  courts,  where  ex- 
isting statutes  permit,  are  trustworthy  in  determining  an  individ- 
ual's value  to  his  family. 
