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Progress  in  Pharmacy. 
/Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\     March,  1913. 
M.  Assoc.,  1913,  v.  60,  p.  375)  in  commenting  on  the  inevitable 
requirement  for  greater  publicity  in  connection  with  the  practice  of 
medicine  says :  "  The  American  public  has  already  awakened  to 
the  fact  that  the  prescribing  of  fraudulent  or  unscientific  proprietary 
mixtures  by  physicians  is  an  evil  but  one  degree  removed  from  that 
of  self  dosing  with  patent  medicines.  The  sooner  the  medical 
profession  realizes  this  the  better  it  will  be  for  its  own  dignity  and 
scientific  standing. 
Proprietary  Medicines. — In  England  the  Select  Committee  on 
Patent  Medicines  is  still  collecting  evidence  for  and  against  the 
continuance  of  privileges  accorded  to  this  class  of  medicinal  prepa- 
rations, A  report  (Chem>.  and  Drug.,  1913,  v.  82,  p.  54)  of  the 
session  held  on  January  23  is  not  particularly  inspiring  and  should 
go  far  to  convince  the  members  of  the  committee  that  the  methods 
and  the  ideals  of  at  least  many  manufacturers  of  patent  medicines 
are  not  designed  to  further  the  best  interests  of  the  public. 
Classification  of  Medical  Colleges. — The  Council  on  Medical 
Education  (/.  Am.  M.  Assoc.,  1913,  v.  60,  pp.  231-234)  presents 
the  third  classification  of  the  medical  colleges  of  the  United  States 
with  an  outline  of  the  basis  on  which  the  classification  was  made. 
While  it  is  true  that  considerable  opposition  has  been  encountered 
to  the  work  of  the  Council  the  rapidly  growing  list  of  class  A 
schools  evidences  the  fact  that  the  work  of  the  Council  on  Medical 
Education  has  been  productive  of  good  results  and  that  the  whole 
plane  of  medical  education  in  this  country  has  been  and  is  being 
rapidly  raised.  From  a  pharmaceutical  point  of  view  the  results 
that  have  been  attained  should  not,  and  in  effect  cannot  be  ignored 
as  it  is  but  a  matter  of  time  when  pharmaceutical  schools  will  be 
measured  by  the  achievements  that  have  been  recorded  for  medical 
schools. 
Ph.  Germ.  V. — Taub,  L.  (Ztschr.  f.  ang.  Chem.,  Pharm.  Ztg., 
igi2,  v.  57,  p.  886),  in  a  comprehensive  review  of  the  evolution  of 
the  Prussian  and  succeeding  German  Pharmacopoeias  presents 
tables  showing  the  date  of  publication  and  the  number  of  titles 
contained  in  these  several  books.  The  first  edition  of  the  Prussian 
Pharmacopoeia,  published  in  1799,  is  reported  to>  have  contained  a 
total  of  685  titles,  while  the  now  official  pharmacopoeia  contains 
638  titles.  The  maximum  number  of  titles  was  reached  by  the 
Ph.  Germ,  I,  published  in  1872,  which  contained  896  titles.  This 
