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very  desirable  that  pharmaceutical  students  should  receive  their 
scientific  training,  particularly  in  subjects  such  as  chemistry  and 
botany,  side  by  side  with  students  for  other  professions.  {Pilar. 
Jour.,  March,  1905,  page  336.) 
Council  on  Medical  Education  of  the  American  Medical  Association. 
— The  first  annual  conference  of  this  Council  was  held  in  Chicago, 
April  20,  1905,  and  was  attended  by  representatives  of  State  and 
Territorial  boards  of  examiners,  and  also  by  representatives  of  the 
American  and  Southern  Medical  College  Associations  and  the 
Government  medical  services. 
The  object  of  the  Council  is  to  bring  together  and  to  co-ordinate 
the  different  interests  bearing  on  the  education  and  regulation  of 
prospective  medical  practitioners. 
The  reports  of  the  different  sub-committees,  particularly  the  re- 
port of  the  Committees  on  Preliminary  Education  and  on  Medical 
Curriculum,  were  exhaustive  and  suggested  an  outline  of  require- 
ments that,  if  adopted,  will  contribute  very  materially  to  elevate 
the  standard  and  attainments  ot  future  medical  men.  (Jour.  Amer. 
Med.  Assoc.,  May  6,  1905,  p.  1470.) 
The  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry  of  the  American  Medical 
Association. — This  Council,  the  objects  and  aims  of  which  have  been 
discussed  in  this  Journal  (A.  J.  P.,  1905,  p.  179),  has  been  the  subject  of 
considerable  comment  in  medical  as  well  as  pharmaceutical  journals. 
Practically  all  of  the  journals  that  are  not  directly  under  the  influence 
of  proprietary  houses  of  a  questionable  character  have  endorsed 
the  objects  of  this  Council.  The  Apothecary  for  April,  in  referring 
to  the  announcement  of  the  Council  on  Pharmacy  and  Chemistry, 
says  that  "  it  is  fraught  with  vital  interest  to  both  the  medical  and  the 
pharmaceutical  professions  of  this  country,  and  is,  we  sincerely  be- 
lieve, the  announcement  of  the  beginning  of  a  better  order  of  things, 
when  much  that  is  unfair  and  dishonest  and  uncertain  and  unethi- 
cal in  the  practices  of  druggist,  physician  and  manufacturer  will  be 
cleared  away." 
Another  interesting  announcement  in  this  same  connection  is  the 
avowed  intention  of  several  manufacturers  of  so-called  patent  medi- 
cines to  publish  the  formulae  of  their  preparations  on  each  package. 
While  this  is  probably  done  to  meet  the  requirements  that  will 
probably  be  made  in  Venezuela,  Cuba  and  in  New  Zealand,  it  also 
evidences  the  trend  of  the  times,  the  abolition  of  secrecy,  and  is 
