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PHARMACEUTICAL  LEGISLATION. 
one  was  appointed  for  every  store — could  increase  that  security 
which  is  afforded  by  professional  integrity,  based  upon  a  thorough 
qualification. 
Opinions  may  differ  in  regard  to  the  proper  means  to  secure 
it ;  the  machinery  proposed  by  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  may  be  somewhat  unwieldy  and  cumbersome  ;  it  has 
already  been  simplified  by  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical 
Association,  and  Baltimore  has  secured  a  law  which,  if  carried 
out  in  spirit,  is  well  adapted  to  farther  build  upon.* 
With  an  experience  of  nearly  two  hundred  years, f  Prussia 
hcs  continually  endeavored  to  raise  the  standard  of  qualification 
of  her  apothecaries,  and  to  educate  them  in  accordance  with  the 
progress  of  science.  Since  the  establishment  of  the  North 
German  Confederation  under  the  guidance  of  Prussia,  it  has  be- 
come necessary  to  harmonize  the  laws  existing  in  the  various 
smaller  States,  and  accordingly  it  is  contemplated  to  issue  new 
laws  for  the  government  of  practitioners  of  medicine  and  of 
pharmacy.  The  latter  subject  has  been  entrusted  to  a  committee 
of  prominent  pharmacists  of  Northern  Germany,  who  have 
adopted  the  draft  of  a  law  to  regulate  the  practice  of  pharmacy 
in  that  country  (Apotheken-Ordnung),  which  has  been  published 
in  the  German  pharmaceutical  periodicals,  and  from  which  we 
extract  and  condense  that  portion  which  is  most  interesting  for 
this  country, — the  sections  on  the  education  (Ausbildung)  of  the 
apothecary,  and  on  the  right  to  conduct  a  store : 
1 14.  An  approbated  apothecary  only  can  be  principal  of  a  pharmaceu- 
tical establishment  (Apolheken-Vorstand). 
1 15.  The  owner  of  the  ofBcineJ  shall  also  be  the  principal:  in  certain 
cases  (provided  for  in  the  law),  however,  a  lessee  or  agent  (administrator) 
may  be  principal. 
*  In  January  last  a  pharmacy  and  poison  law  was  passed  and  approved 
in  Rhode  Island,  which  in  its  main  features  is  identical  with  the  draft 
recommended  by  the  A.mer.  Pharm.  Assoc.,  but  considerably  simplified. 
t  The  first  apothecary  law  in  Prussia  was  promulgated  in  1693. 
%  We  propose  to  use  the  word  ofificine  in  this  paper  for  pharmaceutical 
establishment.  The  Latin  officina  has  been  adopted  in  the  French 
(I'officine)  and  the  German  (Officin)  languages,  and  is  undoubtedly  more 
expressive  for  a  complete  pharmaceutical  establishment  than  either 
apothecary's  shop  or  store,  and  also  more  than  office  in  the  popular  usage 
of  this  word. 
