60  The  Pharmacist  and  the  Physician.  {AF4br°uary!i^5m" 
suit  has  in  it  men  of  character,  little  need  be  said  among  themselves 
of  ethics.  There  is  no  surer  way  of  men  learning  the  force  of  the 
Golden  Rule  than  in  the  drill  which  obtains  in  the  pursuit  of  science. 
The  man  of  science  learns  and  acts  on  Emerson's  creed — "  whatso- 
ever a  man  does  to  his  neighbor,  whether  for  good  or  evil,  he  does 
unto  himself." 
I  plead,  therefore,  that  you  make  the  calling  of  pharmacy  not  a 
profession,  but  a  science,  and  that  you  insist  its  conduct  must  be  on 
the  highest  scientific  planes  to  the  end  that  those  who  are  its 
devotees  may  be  counted  upon,  in  season  and  out  of  season,  as  men 
having  no  code  and  no  regulations,  breathing  only  the  spirit  of 
"  doing  unto  others  as  you  would  be  done  by." 
THE  PHARMACIST  AND  THE  PHYSICIAN  :  A  NEW 
ASPECT  OF  THE  CASE. 
By  M.  I.  AVilbeirt, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
Some  of  the  articles  that  have  recently  appeared  in  medical,  as 
well  as  in  pharmaceutical,  journals  would  appear  to  indicate  that 
the  relations  existing  between  pharmacists  and  physicians  are  in  an 
unsatisfactory  and  altogether  unsettled  condition.  While  it  is  true 
that  the  subject-matter  under  discussion  is  not  new,  and  that  many 
of  the  questions  that  are  now  involved  have  arisen  over  and  over 
again  for  upwards  of  a  century,  some  recent  developments  in  con- 
nection with  the  trade  in  nostrums,  or  patent  medicines,  have  added 
a  tone  of  bitterness  to  the  controversy  that  will  not  tend  to  bring 
about  more  amicable  relations  in  the  near  future. 
Unfortunately,  too,  there  is,  in  nearly  all  of  the  printed  articles, 
an  evident  tendency  to  hold  up  the  shortcomings  and  frailties  of  a 
few  as  an  evidence  of  the  tendency  and  ideals  of  all.  That  there  are 
members  in  both  professions  who  do  not  live  up  to  the  prescribed 
principles  or  codes  of  ethics,  and  whose  technical  training  or  skill 
does  not  compare  favorably  with  the  best  that  is  attainable,  all  must 
admit.  But  to  say,  on  the  other  hand,  that  all  of  the  members  of 
these  respective  callings  are  guility  of  any  or  all  of  the  accusations 
that  have  recently  been  made  would  be  overstepping  the  bounds  of 
truth  very  materially.  Over  and  above  the  evident  falsity  of  any 
series  of  general  accusations,  we  should  always  remember  that 
