The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-27
THE APOTHECARIES.

TIE APOTHECARIES
Meeting or tho BOARD Of Commissioners for
the ExauainOaOn Of Druggists and Apothe-
carries. .-~-
The commissioners continued their examination
of applicants for licenses yesterday at their Board
rooms IN Union place. There they purpose meeting
daily dntil they have exhausted tha list OF druggists
VIXEN some other arrangement will be made to meet
the altered circumstances. While portion of the
druggists continue to
EXHIBIT HOSTILITY TO THE BOARD,
the Commissioners gratiied to find that the new
Law Is very widely approved of by the respectable
druggists OF the city. The present arrangement.
with regard to the examination, contem-
plates calling up the gentlemen in alphabetical
order, but any one presenting himself voluntarily
will be at once examined. and II found competent
Will receive his license Already several gentlemen
have so presented themselves and expressed their
BattsfactlOn that such body had been established
by law, they convinced that the result would
necessarily be the raising OF
THE STATUS OF THE PROFESSION
On the other hand, the opponents OF the board are
becoming more active and are engaged In Oh at
tempt to organize resistance. Their motto appears
Ge v Let there be no mgn ana IN support OF
50 the New York druggsts:-
GIN UNION THERE 10 sTRENGTn;"
10 -, His Prescription Clerk :
Se he board TO e,a%e
nl public meeting be held and general exchange Of
as TO an % 10 5 SGd 70 de-
opa Club sUhr acIss 100 Prince street, on Thursday July a.
Remember that "God helps those who help themselves"
s. q. cook for the Committee.
The writer forgets to point out who Is to help the
unfortunate who Is not able to help himself put pub.
lie opinion is very likely to decide that the KIND Of
re nvnQ MT tn a md ~
The suffering is not the kind which the community
can appreciate. II the druggists who take up
DEFENCE OF IGNORANCE
and vicious privileges have any good reasons wnicn
Sion, should not continue to exist to act let them
give them by all means. They Will find the public
Germs every one OF us; but If they imagine that the
people Will consent TO be poisoned because 1t may
pay competent clerks. then they are much mistaken
IN general the public have constitutional objection
70 being poisoned, even by accident, and men feel
III only in small degree to their
SENSE OF SECURITY.
However, the amlable Knights Of the Pestle may be
able to adduce good and valid reasons TO convince
us that we have no right TO object and then TO
an overdose or strycnntne or morphine. There are
''strange things little dreamt of In philosophy"
and mayhap this question OF accidental poisoning
may be one or them.
point which seems to have caused much nllsun
derstanding In relation to this examination and
considerably exercised some OF the older chemists
IS the dread that they would be expected to re-
member
THE ENIGMATIC FORMULA
which young students love to repeat so gliby when
they come fresh from the presence OF the ''cram-
mer,'' to the wonder and admiration Of less learned
friends. However. as the years pass by and the
memory or the learned Old saw who ground them for
examination grows dim and faint, that very formula
with which they delighted to puzzle their friends
becomes to themselves an enigma, and hence the
apprehension OF some
( GOOD OLD SOULS
Test the ghost or the formula should rise and
proach them for their forgetfulness. But the Com
value OF elaborate formula, and do not expect the
Older chemists to remember them, but only such as
are absolutely necessary in the compromising OF
drugs.
In the matter OF poisons and antidotes however,
exceptional strictness Will be shown. Is abso-
autey necessary TO the public safety that all drug.
Eists should be familiar with the formula for posons,
as otherwise they cannot know what Is
THE CORRECT DOSE.
With regard to botany the examination is strictly
confined To oficlnal botany, so that the druggist
may he able to distinguish between the leaves OF
various plants ana understand their qualities and
effect. The commissioners desire to state that they
40 not ignore
THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY,
but that in all cases where gentlemen can produce
diplomas from American or foreign colleges they
wil be recognIzed-not, however, until the Commits
BiOners satisfied, by an informal examination,
same person designated therein.
1t has been found impossible to make as much
progress in the work OF examination as was al first
expected, but so tar the result IS satisfactory.
THE GREAT CRUSH
OF applicants may be expected toward the end OF
the SIX months breathing space Which Is allowed
10y law to those desiring to qualify. Some are hold
ing back, no doubt for the purpose OF reading up,
themselves until 1t becomes q matter or necessity
with them.