1 8  Researches  upon  Buchu.  {Am' jZ'^e!m' 
our  land,  the  latter  need  not  shrink  before  a  critical  but  equitable  and 
just  comparison,  both  in  its  accomplishments  and  its  share  of  applica- 
tion and  usefulness  in  the  health  service.  Both  professions  present  a 
wide  and  constantly  increasing  sphere  for  scientific  acquirement  and 
practical  skill,  requiring  for  adequate  qualification,  a  superior  prelimi- 
nary training  of  the  intellect,  and  a  large  amount  of  proficiency  and 
knowledge,  while  both  have  in  common  their  measure  of  deficiencies 
and  wants,  and  their  drawbacks.  When  thoughtful  and  high-minded 
men  are  conscious  of  these,  and  keenly  feel  shortcomings  and  abuses, 
and  call  for  improvement  and  reform,  they  should,  when  confronting 
so  great  evils,  bear  with  real  or  fancied  or  overrated  minor  wants, 
avoid  and  discountenance  unavailing  antagonism,  and  gain  and 
cherish  strength  by  advancing  friendly  and  auspicious  mutual  relations 
between  physician  and  pharmacist.  They  certainly  will  meet,  in  their 
honest  and  well-directed  efforts,  with  due  appreciation,  encouragement 
and  support.  In  consideration,  however,  of  the  privileges  equally 
secured  by  our  national  constitution  to  every  individual,  and  conceding 
a  wide  scope  for  licence,  all  that  can  be  aimed  at  and  realized,  in  order 
to  remedy  and  counteract  the  consequences,  may  be  the  legislative 
enactment  and  subsequent  maintenance  of  an  adequate  standard  of 
qualification  in  every  individual  inside  of  the  professions. 
Upon  the  relations  between  medicine  and  pharmacy  well  informed 
men  need,  on  this  occasion,  no  further  comment,  while  the  personal 
relations  between  physician  and  pharmacist  invariably  rest  on  the  level 
of  education,  culture  and  character  in  the  individual.  For  short- 
comings in  this  respect  the  professions,  of  course,  cannot  be  held  re- 
sponsible. 
RESEARCHES  UPON  BUCHU. 
BY  PROF.   E.  S.  WAYNE. 
Buchu  from  the  examinations  of  previous  analysts  has  been  shown 
to  contain  an  ethereal  oil  in  small  quantity,  and  also  that  this  oil  con- 
tained a  camphor  which  could  be  separated  from  it  by  exposure  to  cold. 
No  other  proximate  principle  peculiar  to  the  drug  has  been  proven  to 
exist  in  it. 
In  handling  large  quantities  of  this  drug  in  a  manufacturing  way,  I 
have  noticed  some  facts  and  peculiarities  not  mentioned  by  others,  and 
find  that  the  essential  oil  above  mentioned,  is  not  always  so  simple  a 
body  as  stated. 
