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A  Dream  of  the  Future 
( Am.  Jour,  Pharm. 
{    .  Oct.,  1921. 
continuously.  One  of  the  men  was  suffering  from  a  severe  "cold  in 
the  head,"  and  while  generally  an  inflammation  of  the  nasal  passages 
deadens  the  sense  of  smell,  this  man  made  a  score  of  eighteen  out 
of  the  twenty.  Also,  another  apologized  that  he  "didn't  smell  very 
good." 
We  have  something  to  learn  from  this  simple  test,  and  that 
"something"  is  that  we  have  been  neglecting  the  education  of  our 
nose.  The  identification  of  substances  by  the  sense  of  smell  is 
a  thing  which  cannot  be  taught.  It  must  be  acquired  by  the  process 
of  exercising  the  function.   Only  "your  nose  knows." 
Technical  Chemistry  Laboratory, 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science. 
June  10,  192 1. 
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A  DREAM  OF  THE  FUTURE.* 
By  E.  Savil-le  Peck,  M.  A.,  Ph.  C. 
PRESIDENTIAL  ADDRESS  DELIVERED  BEFORE  THE  BRITISH 
PHARMACEUTICAL  CONFERENCE. 
[The  foregoing  title  may  well  be  altered  to  American  Pharmacy 
and  its  Possibilities  and  the  dream  which  is  so  ably  interpreted  by 
Mr.  Peck  may  also  be  the  proper  and  happy  aim  of  American  phar- 
macy of  the  present  day.  Conditions  related  in  this  article  are  as 
vividly  characteristic  of  our  land  as  they  apparently  are  of  Great 
Britain  and  the  remedies  proposed  for  the  correcting  of  these  con- 
ditions should  be  quite  as  efficient  for  us  and  our  calling  as  they 
are  expected  to  be  for  our  British  conferes  and  their  profession. 
—Ed.] 
On  looking  over  the  addresses  of  the  distinguished  pharmacists 
who  have  preceded  me  in  this  chair  during  the  past  few  years,  I 
find  they  can  be  roughly  classified  under  four  headings — those  which 
deal  purely  with  pharmaceutical  science,  those  which  have  delved 
into  the  long-forgotten  past,  and  endeavored  from  that  rich  field  of 
*From  The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  1921,  pp.  46-50. 
