110  PHYSICIANS  AND  PHARMACEUTISTS  AND  THEIR  RELATIONS. 
Take  of  Alcoholic  extract  from  24  oz.  of  wild 
cherry  bark,  about,  five  and  a  half  oz. 
Sweet  almonds,  three  ounces, 
Water,  a  pint, 
Sherry  wine,  two  pints. 
Beat  the  almonds  with  the  water  to  a  paste,  rub  down  the 
extract  with  half  a  pint  of  the  wine,  and  mix  the  two  liquids  in 
a  bottle  of  the  capacity  of  three  pints,  stop  it  closely  and  permit 
it  to  stand  for  three  days  with  occasional  agitation ;  then  add  the 
remainder  of  the  wine,  allow  it  to  stand  a  week  and  filter.  By 
this  mode  of  proceeding,  opportunity  is  afforded  for  the  develop- 
ment of  the  hydrocyanic  acid  before  the  menstruum  is  made  so 
alcoholic  as  to  retard  the  reaction  which  favors  its  formation. 
Thus  made,  wine  of  wild  cherry  bark  is  a  transparent,  wine- 
red  liquid,  having  an  astringent,  bitter  almond  taste  and 
odor,  much  less  agreeable  than  the  syrup  and  about  the  same 
strength. 
The  dose  of  this  preparation  is  a  teaspoonful. 
PHYSICIANS  AND  PHARMACEUTISTS  AND  THEIR  RELATIONS. 
By  J.  M.  Maisch. 
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The  vocation  of  the  physician  is  certainly  a  noble  and  exalted 
one ;  it  wants  a  man,  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the  word,  to  visit 
the  sick  room,  to  witness  the  sufferings  of  human  beings  in  their 
various  forms  ;  to  distribute  comfort  and  help.  But  when  pre- 
tenders attempt  to  make  that  high  calling  their  own,  we 
really  do  not  know  whether  we  should  get  angry  at  their  deceit- 
fullness  or  pity  the  credulity  of  the  mass.  If  an  adventurer  of 
some  kind  or  another  finds  that  he  cannot  succeed,  or  does  not 
make  money  fast  enough,  what  is  easier  for  him  than  to  rent  a 
room,  calling  it  an  office,  and  to  put  a  sign  out  on  which  you 
may  read  in  large  characters  a  name  with  M.  D.  affixed  to  it  ? 
The  newspapers  open  their  advertising  columns  to  any  one  who 
has  money  to  pay  for  the  advertisement.  And  what  advertise- 
ments these  often  are  !  There  you  may  find  enumerated  horrid 
diseases  that  are,  and  that  have  never  been  dreamed  of,  that 
