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that  all  will  be  needed  ;  needed  in  their  breadth,  their  strength  and 
their  fullness.  Modesty  and  timidity  made  the  mistake  ;  over-am- 
bition and  unsympathetic  assertiveness  will  try  to  perpetuate  it. 
For  years  and  years,  even  from  the  very  beginning,  pharmacy  as 
a  whole  and  pharmacists  as  individuals  have  craved  and  sought  rec- 
ognition ;  not  as  scholars,  from  men  of  letters  and  their  guilds  ;  not 
as  scientists,  from  men  of  science  and  their  societies ;  not  as  philoso- 
phers, from  men  of  philosophy  and  their  associations  ;  but  simply 
as  professional  pharmacists,  first  from  the  laity,  and  then  from  those 
professions — medicine  and  dentistry — with  which  they  have  most  to 
do.  Strange  as  it  may  seem,  the  single  thing  that  would  have  done 
most  to  have  won  recognition  for  pharmacy,  as  a  profession — a  pro- 
fessional title — "  Doctor  " — has  been  withheld  ;  not  the  Doctor  of 
Science,  nor  Doctor  of  Philosophy,  nor  yet  Doctor  of  Medicine,  or 
Doctor  of  Dental  Surgery,  but  simply  Doctor  of  Pharmacy,  a 
science,  profession,  or  what  not,  that  has  not  risen  and  never  can 
rise  above  the  great  mass  of  its  votaries  or  beyond  the  demands 
upon  its  practitioners,  no  matter  how  much  individuals  among  these 
may  have  honored  the  calling  by  the  unusual  advancement  they 
may  have  made.  Such  a  title  or  degree — Doctor  of  Pharmacy — as 
heretofore  given,  however  much  it  may  have  cost  in  time,  study  or 
practical  experience,  has  never  meant  more  and  never  will  mean 
more  to  any  one,  excepting  those  who  conferred  it,  than  that  the 
bearer  has  been  adjudged  worthy,  by  some  legally  authorized 
school,  to  practise  pharmacy,  plain  every-day  pharmacy.  If  it 
means  more  than  this,  it  will  never  get  its  true  value  from  the  over- 
whelming majority  who  are  unitiated  ;  to  them,  Pharmaceutic  Chenu 
ist,  Bachelor  of  Pharmacy,  Master  of  Pharmacy,  and,  perhaps,  even 
Graduate  of  Pharmacy,  have  a  higher  sound,  a  more  exalted  meaning. 
The  higher  title  or  degree  should  mean  more  than  does  that  which 
is  so  generally  conferred  upon  us  by  the  general  public ;  conferred 
upon  graduate  and  non-graduate  ;  the  ethical  practitioner  and  the 
proprietor  of  nostrums  alike.  The  public  believes  all  should  be 
qualified — believes  all  are  qualified,  and,  thus  believing,  gives  the 
title  such  qualifications  it  deserves,  calling  each — "  Doctor."  When 
none  really  own  the  .title,  who  should  defend  it  ?  When  but  a  few, 
a  very  few,  may  honestly  claim  it,  how  will  it  be  protected  ?  Give 
it  to  all  honest  young  men  and  young  women  who  seek  fitness  to 
practise  pharmacy  through  accepted  channels,  and  who  meet  the 
