66  Pharmacy  Legislation.  { ^iryffgoi."0' 
Glenard's  observations  have  received,  however,  very  little  notice, 
and  in  most  chemical  books  the  formula  assigned  to  emetine  by 
Kunz  has  been  adopted  as  the  most  satisfactory.  That  view,  how- 
ever, must  now  be  abandoned,  since  the  results  of  our  investigations 
show  that  the  substance  to  which  Kunz  refers  could  not  have  been 
a  definite  substance. 
( To  be  continued.) 
PRACTICAL  POLITICS  APPLIED  TO  PHARMACY 
LEGISLATION. 
By  J.  H.  Beai,,  Scio,  O. 
THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY  THE  GODMOTHER  OF 
PHARMACY  LEGISLATION  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES. 
It  is  especially  fitting  that  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
should  take  an  active#part  in  the  discussion  and  advocacy  of  phar- 
macy legislation,  since  this  institution  may  properly  be  regarded  as 
the  godmother  of  practically  all  the  existing  pharmacy  laws  in  the 
United  States.  Our  present  laws  are  largely  built  upon  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association  model  of  1869,  which  was  mainly 
prepared  by  a  member  of  the  faculty  of  this  institution,  and  was 
discussed  and  approved  by  the  College  before  it  was  presented  to 
the  Association.  This  model  is  often  referred  to  as  if  it  were  a 
mere  copy  of  the  English  statute  of  1868,  but  aside  from  the  fact 
that,  like  the  English  law,  it  sought  to  restrict  the  practice  of 
pharmacy  to  registered  persons,  it  was  built  upon  wholly  original 
lines,  and  proposed  an  entirely  different  form  of  machinery  for 
carrying  the  law  into  effect. 
THE  AWAKENING  OF  PHARMACY. 
It  must  be  evident  to  every  observer  of  pharmaceutical  affairs 
that  we  are  in  the  midst  of  an  extraordinary  movement  that 
promises  to  place  the  practice  of  pharmacy  upon  an  entirely  differ- 
ent footing  from  that  which  it  has  hitherto  occupied. 
After  a  long  lethargy,  the  pharmacists  of  the  United  States  are 
apparently  just  awakening  to  the  fact  that  collectively  they  are 
capable  of  exerting  a  tremendous  force  in  securing  for  themselves 
a  position  in  the  social  and  economic  scale  more  befitting  the  ser- 
vice they  render  society  than  they  have  enjoyed  in  the  past. 
