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Medical  Colleges.  The  number  of  medical  students  in  the  United 
States  is  rapidly  increasing  and  it  would  seem  that  the  College  could 
readily  teach  pre-medical  students  physics,  biology  (embracing  bac- 
teriology), biological  chemistry,  and  pharmacology,  together  with 
medical  pharmacy,  medical  chemistry  and  medical  pharmacognosy, 
and  probably  mathematics  and  languages.  Such  a  course  would  form 
an  ideal  premedical  course. 
We  must  have  better  legislation,  especially  prerequisite  legisla- 
tion, and  this  need  is  vital,  not  only  for  the  good  of  American  phar- 
macy, but  for  the  better  service  of  the  American  people.  Today,  less 
than  one-half  of  the  forty-eight  States  of  the  Union  have  prerequi- 
site laws,  and  the  public  will  not  be  properly  served  until  every 
State  of  the  Union  has  such  a  law ;  and  we  must  have  universal  reci- 
procity between  State  Boards  of  Pharmacy,  or  national  licensure; 
and  we  must  have  simpler  and  more  efficient  pharmacy  laws  by  State 
and  nation. 
We  must  have  better  practice  along  professional  or  technical 
lines  that  will  be  of  direct  value  to  the  medical  profession  in  the 
diagnosis  and  treatment  of  disease ;  there  must  be  a  sharper  differen- 
tiation by  the  pharmacist,  in  his  daily  work,  between  legitimate  com- 
mercial pharmacy  and  illegitimate,  or  real  pharmacy  will  cease  to 
be ;  and  it  may  be  that  we  will  have  in  this  country,  in  the  future — ■ 
two  kinds  of  stores — pharmacies  and  drug  stores,  the  former  for 
professional  service  and  legitimate  commercialism,  and  the  latter 
crassly  commercial. 
We  must  have  better  relations  with  the  medical  profession  by 
deserving  it — by  perfecting  our  individual  abilities  and  directing  our 
work  primarily  along  professional  and  scientific  lines  that  will  appeal 
to  the  medical  profession  and  win  their  sympathetic  support.  In  the 
past  we  have  not  had  this.  Let  us  hope  that  under  the  inspiring 
leadership  of  our  new  President,  William  Clarence  Braisted,  the 
medical  profession  will  come  to  realize  the  potential  possibilities  of 
pharmacy,  acting  in  co-operation  with  medicine  as  a  sister  art. 
Pharmacy  is  the  study  of  the  reaction  of  drugs  without  the 
human  body,  and  therapeutics  is  the  study  of  the  reaction  of  drugs 
within  the  body,  and  the  one  cannot  properly  function  without  the 
other.  In  a  word,  pharmacy  is  the  physico-chemistry  of  drugs,  and 
therapeutics  is  the  biochemistry;  and  practically  pharmacy  is  as 
vital  to  medicine  as  therapeutics  or  any  other  medical  arr. 
