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Secret — Private — Personal. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
V       July,  19 1 9. 
earned  diploma  is  handed  him,  then  to  discover  that  his  personality 
is  to  be  suppressed,  under  the  misapplied  argument  that  one  phar- 
macist is  the  equal  of  another — that  he  cannot  assert  his  personal 
right  to  manipulative  superiority  ?  That  all  he  evolves  must  be  open 
to  others — that  he  must  needs.,  perhaps,  give  a  gold  mine  to  his 
advertising  competitor.,  or  a  moneyed  man's  business  investment? 
Is  he  forever  to  be  governed  by  either  a  written  or  an  unwritten 
code  of  laws  that,  formulated  by  men  who  make  their  living  other- 
wise., has  never  harmonized,  and  never  can  harmonize,  either  with 
rules  of  business,  precepts  of  law,  or  .with  commercial  processes 
that  govern  the  methods  of  men,  the  world  over?  Are  the  teachers 
in  our  colleges  of  pharmacy  not  to  be  encouraged  in  their  great 
sacrifices,  so  that  they  may  in  some  way  reasonably  assure  their 
graduates  that  merited  recognition  will  be  given  well-earned  per- 
sonality, whether  they  create  a  something  new,  or  make  a  service- 
able discovery  touching  medicines  ? 
Summary. — Take  now  the  three  words — Secret,  Private  and 
Personal.  Draw  better  than  this  writer,  if  one  can,  a  sharp  dis- 
tinction between  each,  as  contrasted  with  the  others.  With  these 
words,  all  differentiating  shades  of  expression  run  into  each  other  ; 
with  all,  good  or  bad  ethics  may  result,  if  respective  definitions  be 
inflexibly  applied  thereto. 
May  not  this  series  of  studies,  based  on  a  life-time  spent  in 
pharmacy,  be  considered  as  an  attempt  (very  superficial)  to  do  no 
more  than  lead  modern  thought  in  some  way,  to  consider  the  possi- 
bility of  giving  both  ethical  credit  and  substantial  return  to  the 
qualified  pharmacist  to  whom  such  is  due?  That  is,  if  any  code 
other  than  a  personal  acceptance  of  "  The  Golden  Rule,"  is  really 
essential  to  life  and  action,  either  of  persons  engaged  in  the  pro- 
fession of  medicine,  or  those  concerned  in  the  art  of  pharmacy. 
