Am,  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
February,  1905.  J 
Pharmacy  and  Chemistry. 
7b 
total  of  all  the  facts  and  factors  in  any  given  case,  our  ideas  and 
opinions,  and  all  our  statements  based  on  them,  will  necessarily  be 
the  product  of  our  estimation  of  such  facts  and  factors  as  are  evi- 
denced to  us  from  our  point  of  view. 
This  line  of  reasoning  explains  why  so  many  really  honest  men 
in  the  drug  business  to-day  continue  in  their  (supposed)  time-hon- 
ored prerogative  of  dispensing  mixtures  for  this,  that  or  the  other 
disease  regardless  of  the  fact  that,  by  imparting  a  false  feeling  of 
security  to  a  patient  or  his  friends,  they,  not  infrequently  and  un- 
wittingly, are  the  direct  cause  of  unnecessary  life-long  suffering,  or 
assist  the  grim  reaper,  death,  to  fill  an  untimely  and  premature 
grave. 
It  must  be  remembered,  also,  that  in  the  minds  of  many  physicians 
counter  prescribing  is  not  confined  to  those  isolated  cases  where  a 
druggist,  without  license,  looks  at  the  tongue,  feels  the  pulse  and 
takes  the  temperature  of  a  patient,  with  a  view  of  doling  him  out  a 
mixture  especially  designed  for  his  particular  case,  but  that,  on  the 
other  hand,  it  includes  also  the  making  and  sale  of  panaceas  or  nos- 
trums designed  for  the  cure  of  diseases  that  are  still,  though  errone- 
ously, considered  to  be  well  known  and  definite  entities. 
Of  proprietary  medicines,  little  need  be  said,  in  conclusion ;  they 
are  best  described  as  a  futile  attempt  of  the  blind  leading  the  blind 
along  unknown  and  comparatively  dangerous  paths,  and  cannot  be 
tolerated  in  the  practices  of  professional  or  scientific  men. 
PHARMACY  AND  CHEMISTRY  AT  THE  WORLD'S  FAIR. 
By  Cari,  G,  Hinrichs,  Ph.C, 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  Marion-Sims  Dental  College. 
{Concluded Jrom  Vol.  76,  p.  57J. ) 
VII.  PHARMACEUTICAL  EDUCATION. 
The  Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition  was  of  great  educational  value 
in  some  directions ;  in  others,  and  especially  along  the  lines  of  phar- 
maceutical teaching,  it  was  lamentably  lacking ;  for  we  found  only 
two  pharmacy  schools  represented  in  the  Palace  of  Education  ;  one 
from  New  York  City,  the  second  from  far-away  Sao  Paulo,  Brazil. 
The  small  exhibits  of  these  two  schools  cannot  be  said  to  represent 
pharmaceutical  education.  We  are  glad  to  say  that  the  profession 
of  pharmacy  was  not  entirely  without  representation,  for  nearly  all 
