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son  shall  be  regarded  as  practicing  medicine  within  the  meaning  of 
this  act  who  shall  profess  to  heal  or  who  shall  give  treatment  to 
any  other  person  by  the  use  of  any  remedy,  agent  or  method  what- 
soever, whether  with  or  without  the  use  of  any  medicine,  drug, 
instrument  or  other  appliance,  for  the  relief  or  cure  of  any  wound, 
fracture  or  body  injury,  infirmity,  physical  or  mental,  or  other 
defects  or  disease.  This  is  not  to  be  construed  as  prohibiting  the 
manufacture,  sale  or  use  of  any  proprietary  or  patent  medicine 
where  no  diagnosis  is  made  by  the  maker  or  seller  thereof;  or  the 
giving  of  temporary  relief  in  an  emergency  by  a  registered  phar- 
macist or  any  person,  or  the  domestic  administration  of  family 
remedies." 
One  of  the  numerous  measures  has  already  been  passed,  and 
awaits  either  the  Governor's  signature  or  his  veto.  This  is  the 
"  Military  Code  Bill,"  and  amends  the  law  of  1900  which  gave  to 
pharmacists  of  the  National  Guard  the  rank  of  first  lieutenant. 
The  bill  is  said  to  have  been  pushed  through  the  legislature  by  the 
surgeons  and  other  officers  of  the  National  Guard,  who  are  opposed 
to  admitting  pharmacists  to  rank  because  of  social  reasons. 
Whether  this  be  true  or  not,  the  measure  is  a  direct  affront  to  the 
profession  of  pharmacy,  and  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  any  self- 
respecting  pharmacist  can  hereafter  accept  an  appointment  in  the 
National  Guard  of  the  Empire  State. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
The  Cloutier  Bill  seeks  to  amend  the  present  law  regulating  the 
granting  of  liquor  licenses  to  registered  druggists  by  providing  that 
the  fact  that  a  druggist  has  been  convicted  of  a  violation  of  the 
liquor  law  shall  not  operate  as  a  forfeiture  of  his  license,  nor  permit 
the  pharmacy  board  to  revoke  his  certificate  of  registration  as  a 
pharmacist. 
Among  other  bills  is  one  to  increase  druggist's  liquor  license 
from  $1.00  to  $500,  one  making  only  one  signature  necessary  in 
recording  sales  of  liquor,  one- requiring  members  of  the  Board  of 
Pharmacy  to  be  graduates  of  a  college  of  pharmacy,  and  one  requir- 
ing the  use  of  preservatives  in  food  or  drink  to  be  stated  on  the 
label.  Another  bill  amends  the  present  law  against  adulterations, 
and  still  another  prohibits  the  substitution  of  one  article  when 
another  is  called  for. 
