JO  Relation  of  Pharmacists  ana  Physicians.  {Areb™arya9ao5m" 
slough  of  commercialism  in  which  they  are  slowly  but  surely 
sinking. 
TITLES  OF  PAPERS  REFERRED  TO. 
1  "  Is  Pharmacy  a  Profession  ?  "   American  Druggist,  Dec.  19,  1904,  p.  419. 
2  "  The  Degradation  of  the  Drug  Store."  American  Medicine,  July  2,  1904, 
p.  1. 
3  "Ethical  Pharmacy."    American  Medicine,  Nov.  26,  1904,  p.  935. 
4  "Careless  Mistakes  of  Good  Druggists."  American  Medicine,  July  9, 
1904,  p.  87. 
5  "Our  Pharmacy  Laws."    American  Medicine,  Dec.  31,  1904,  p.  1122. 
6  "The  Relation  of  the  Physician  to  Proprietary  Medicines."  The  Journal 
of  the  American  Medical  Association,  Dec.  3,  1904,  p.  1675. 
7  "  Proprietary  or  Secret."    American  Medicine,  No.  12,  1904,  p.  863. 
8  "The  Pharmacist  of  the  Future."  New  York  Medical  Journal,  Nov.  12,. 
1904,  p.  937. 
9  "The  Trend  of  Modern  Prescription  Writing."  Journal  oj  the  American 
Medical  Association,  Jan.  7,  1905,  p.  35. 
10  <<  President's  Address."  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
June  11,  1904,  p.  1533. 
11  "  Discussion."  Journal  oj  the  American  Medical  Association,  Dec.  3, 
1904. 
THE  ETHICAL  RELATION  OF  PHARMACISTS  AND 
PHYSICIANS. 
There  was  an  interesting  discussion  following  the  reading  of  three 
of  the  preceding  papers  which  were  presented  at  the  Pharmaceutical 
meeting  on  Tuesday  evening,  January  10th.  Some  of  the  remarks 
are  published  at  this  time. 
DR.  HENRY  BEATES,  JR., 
said :  I  regret  that  Dr.  Musser  has  gone,  because  while  with  much 
that  he  said  I  agree,  there  is  also  much  with  which  it  is  impossible 
to  entertain  a  like  opinion.  If  his  remarks  were  correctly  under- 
stood, the  inference  was  given  that,  in  the  near  future,  there  would 
be  little  or  no  use  for  drugs  or  medicines,  and,  consequently,  little 
or  no  use  for  pharmacy. 
That  such  an  ultimate  condition  could  be  possible  cannot  for  one 
moment  be  even  conjectured.  It  is  difficult  to  understand  how  such 
a  question  could  so  much  as  arise.  Let  us  see  why.  Dr.  Musser 
referred  to  the  fact  that  physicians  are  learning  the  proper  use  of 
fresh  air,  sunlight  and  food  in  the  treatment  ot  disease.  May  they 
not  also  begin  to  learn  how  to  properly  employ  medicines  in  the 
treatment  of  human  ills  ? 
