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EDITORIAL. 
sured  that  he  will  enrich  the  "  Peninsular  and  Independent"  with  many 
valuable  and  interesting  papers. 
The  time  is  drawing  near,  when  the  nominal  tuition  in  Pharmacy,  which 
appertains  to  even  the  best  medical  schools  in  this  country,  will  have  to  be 
superseded  by  a  special  department,  teaching  certain  portions  of  what  i& 
now  taught  by  the  chairs  of  materia  medica  and  chemistry,  united  to,  and 
in,  a  practical  and  demonstrative  course  on  pharmacy,  in  all  the  relation? 
in  which  it  can  prove  useful  to  the  physician.  Such  positions  will  have  tc 
be  held  by  practical  pharmaceutists,  who,  by  study,  have  prepared  them- 
selves to  fill  the  functions  of  such  a  chair  with  honor,  while,  at  the  same 
time,  their  connection  with  the  pharmaceutical  profession  and  business 
will  keep  alive  and  constantly  renew  their  interest  in  its  progress.  The 
recent  creation  of  a  chair  of  Pharmacy  in  the  Academie  de  Medicine,  and 
the  appointment  to  it  of  M.  Soubeiran,  shows  how  the  matter  is  viewed  at 
one  of  the  centres  of  medical  teaching.  It  may  be  difficult  at  first  to  find 
pharmaceutists  wh©  have  properly  qualified  themselves  for  such  positions.: 
but  if  the  movement  ever  proves  successful,  it  will  be  by  taking  such 
teachers  from  the  pharmaceutical  body,  as  much  more  likely  to  insure  the 
kind  of  tuition  needed  by  medical  students,  to  fit  them  for  prescribing  with 
the  effect,  and  in  the  forms,  best  calculated  to  meet  the  cases  treated. 
The  Pacific  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal.  Edited  and  published  by  John 
B.  Trask,  M.  D.,  and  David  Wooster,  M.  D.  San  Francisco,  (Cal.,"> 
1858,  Vol.  1,  No.  1. 
The  above  is  the  title  page  of  a  new  California  Medical  Monthly,  illus- 
trated by  two  lithograph  engravings  executed  in  San  Francisco.  The 
astonishing  progress  of  the  SI  Dorado  of  the  West,  is  in  no  instance  better 
illustrated  than  that,  after  ten  years  existence,  a  Monthly  Journal  of  Medi- 
cine, of  forty-eight  octavo  pages,  should  be  issued.  The  Editors  propose 
to  give  us  reports  from  the  cities  of  the  South  West  Coast,  Oregon,  and  the 
Polynesian  Islands,  when  possible.  For  our  own  interest  we  will  invite 
them  to  keep  a  corner  open  for  all  that  pertains  to  Materia  Medica  and 
Pharmacy,  aboriginal  or  exotic,  both  in  their  therapeutical  and  natural  his- 
torical  relations.    We  will  exchange  with  pleasure. 
The  Chicago  Medical  Journal.    Edited  by  N.  S.  Davis,  M.  D.,  and  W.  H. 
Byford,  M.  D.  January,  1858.  Monthly,  pp.  50,  Vol.  1,  No.  1, 
Has  been  received  and  will  be  placed  on  our  exchange  list. 
Life ;  its  Relations,  Animal  and  Mental ;  an  Inaugural  Dissertation.    By  J. 
Dickson  Burns,  A.  M.  M.  D.,  Charleston,  1857,  pp.  58, 
Has  been  received. 
