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Editorial. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
Feb.  1876. 
dividing  them,  in  each  province,  first  to  the  geographical  square  mile  and  likewise  to 
each  1,000  of  inhabitants,  and  then  calculating  the  square  root  from  the  product 
thus  ascertained,  when  the  following  figures  will  be  obtained : 
PROVINCE. 
APOTHECARIES. 
PHYSICIANS. 
Upon  1  geog. 
square  mile. 
For  1,000 
inhabitants. 
Geometrical 
mean. 
Upon  1  geog. 
square  mile. 
For  1,000 
inhabitants. 
Geometrical 
mean. 
Prussia, 
•19 
•07 
'"5 
'49 
•18 
•297 
Brandenburg, 
'32 
Oo 
I  OO 
I'7° 
'43 
*55 
Pomerania, 
•19 
•07 
•115 
69 
•24 
•407 
Posen, 
*2  1 
•07 
*I  21 
•48 
•16 
•277 
Silesia, 
'32 
06 
'!39 
I  '22 
•25 
•552 
Saxonia, 
'44 
•10 
•210 
r56 
'34 
708 
Schleswig-Holstein, 
•20 
•10 
•170 
1-25 
•40 
707 
Hanover, 
•42 
,J5 
•251 
113 
•40 
•672 
Westphalia, 
•61 
•13 
•282 
j'Ss 
•33 
724 
Hesse-Nassau, 
•70 
•14 
•313 
2-17 
'44 
'977 
Rhenish  Province, 
74 
•10 
•272 
2*43 
•33 
•896 
Hohenzollern, 
•47 
•J5 
•269 
i'37 
'44 
776 
For  the  State, 
•36 
•09 
•180 
122 
•31 
•615 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  supply  of  pharmaceutical  and  medical  aid  varies  very  con- 
siderably in  the  different  provinces.  The  discrepancies  are  still  greater  if  the  smaller 
districts  are  compared  with  each  other.  Looking  only  at  the  extreme  figures,  we 
find  that  the  geometrical  mean  of  apothecaries  in  Berlin  is  1*692,  in  Dusseldorf -503, 
but  in  Gumbinnen  only  '098,  which  figure  is  still  lower  in  Coeslin,  being  *o88.  The 
difference  in  the  number  of  physicians  is  still  greater,  the  figures  being  for  Berlin 
25*311,  Cologne  1*373,  Dusseldorf  1*203,  but  only  *n8  for  Koenigsberg,  *i6i  for 
Gumbinnen  and  -208  for  Coeslin. 
Changes  in  Pharmaceutical  Journals. — Mr.  A.  E.  Ebert  has  retired  from 
the  editorial  chair  of  the  "  Pharmacist,"  his  business  connections  requiring  his  whole 
attention.  The  "  Pharmacist "  will,  as  heretofore,  be  published  by  authority  of  the 
Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,  the  editorial  labors  having  been  entrusted  to  a  com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  College. 
The  "  Deutsch-Amerikanische  Pharmaceutische  Zeitung  "  has  been  discontinued, 
but  its  publication  will  be  resumed  if  a  sufficient  number  of  subscriptions  should  be 
obtained. 
The  Tennessee  "  Pharmacal  Gazette  "  published  its  last  number  in  November, 
1,875. 
