5? 
A  Tendency  in  Medicine. 
{  Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
\    February,  1905. 
(3)  The  pecuniary  value  of  a  life  to  its  relatives  represents  its 
pecuniary  value  to  society. 
(4)  Damages  given  for  wrongful  death  are  such  that  they  can  be 
represented  by  an  average  in  different  groups  oi  age,  with  only  nar- 
row limits  of  probable  error. 
These  features  of  man's  general  relationship  are  indissolubly  asso- 
ciated with  the  proficiency  of  the  professions  we  represent,  and  it 
is  our  province  to  see  to  it  that  Ph.G.  and  M.D.  constitute  a  reality 
when  man's  greatest  interests,  because  of  affliction,  are  intrusted  to 
our  qualification  to  serve  him  conscientiously  and  well,  and  thus  to 
be  beyond  the  possibility  of  a  liability  due  to  incompetency  or 
neglect. 
'Tis  only  the  unprincipled  and  commercially  degenerate,  misrepre- 
senting our  two  grand  and  noble  professions,  who,  in  addition  to  pre- 
scribing quack  nostrums,  and  all  sorts  of  mixtures,  compounds,  etc., 
offer  objection  and  opposition  to  higher  standardization.  All  such, 
whether  individual  or  institutional,  should  be  well  known  and 
accorded  the  full  measure  of  their  merits. 
AN  IRREMOVABLE  STIGMA. 
Our  duty  is  plain — let  us  each,  fearlessly  and  actively,  co-operate 
in  establishing  those  conditions  which,  other  things  being  equal, 
will  achieve  the  desirable  end,  and  find  the  follower  of  pharmacy 
and  medicine  meriting  that  confidence  and  respect  on  the  part  of 
fellow-men,  which  his  conscientious  discharge  of  duties,  character 
and  honor  command  ! 
A  TENDENCY  IN  MEDICINE  AND  ITS  INFLUENCE  ON 
PHARMACY. 
By  John  H.  Musskr. 
In  speaking  of  the  relation  of  the  science  and  art  of  medicine  to 
the  science  and  art  of  pharmacy,  one  must  reflect  upon  the  status 
of  medicine  in  coming  years.  From  the  indications  of  to-day,  just 
as  the  present  compares  with  twenty  years  ago,  one  can  see  less  and 
less  of  the  use  of  drugs  and  more  and  more  of  measures.  Twenty 
years  hence,  one  can  conceive  of  almost  a  minimum  of  drugs.  Just 
recently  a  paper  by  Northrup,  of  New  York,  forcibly  put  the  value 
