Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-02

md retinement OF those who can indulge
in the more elegant and costly prtplfa-
fiona If medicine demand higher and
more complete education in all depart
-ments of knowledge, and no longer are
satisfied with the charms and potions OF
the ignorant chariatan. The success oil
sucb men are numbered in the past.
Life is too secret to be thus imperilled
and the preservation, safety and health
Of the community demand that the dis.
penser OF medicines should be qualified
hy study aud experience and all the
aids of a thorough Pharmaceutical edu
,ation and ever ready to give prompt
Intelligent response and aid to the re-
ouirements of the educated physician.
Whilst We recognize no higher or
more holy mission than that OF the
physician called to alleviate the pains OF
the sick, suffering or dying, we should
feel that the position and duties
of the Phsrvacist or Druggist
are but a trifie less in import
ance.
Pharmacy is the first specially OF med
icine deriving its inspiration, develop
ment and progress, from the general SCI
ence of medicine. Medicine and Phar-
macy have a natural and inseparable
connection, as also a mutual depend
ence on each other.
In all modesty we claim that Pharma-
CIV has accumulated an amount oil
knowledge and experience which medi-
cal skill has long since ceased TO woIk
for. and accumulated that which medl'
cal skill cannot do without or disregard.
We have a province especially our
own, and yet essential to the physician
with his higher and more compete
qualification and education.
To us it belongs to prepare anu co.,
lect the remedies medical science re-
quires and prescribes.
Diagnosis and Therapeutics are among
the highest attainments oil medical
knowledge. The physiology and patholt-
w of the body are special provinces OF
the physician and ours is the privilege
of assisting in healing by the correct
and scientific preparation oil what is dl
recfed by those whose duty 1t IS TO pre-
scribe.
ADVANCES
The most cordial and sincere relations
should exist between us, and as Phar-
macists We should be largely guided by
| those whose experience and knowledge
| should enable us 10 attain the best
results by the most reliable manlpaIa'
tons.
And pardon me, il NAV presume TO
suggest we should avoid all temptations
10 pres cribe or suggest. Ii is done often
| - nliaitotsnn Rnstnmprs
but sound Judgment should dictate a
refusal to do that which is not within
our line OF duty or calling, and'ior which
We have no qualifications.
Pharmacy has reason to be proud al
her advances. For in the board domain
Of thought and research she does not fail
in the rear; no sluogard has she been.
Would time permit, we might with pro.
fit note the entire results; but pardon
me for OBTAINING you as we merely glance
at some of the more prominent ones OF
these processes and adyancements.
Notice the chemical manipulations OF
| the crude drugs so as to isolate the valu-
able medicinal properties from the mass
of inert matter, woody fibre coloring
matter, etc, with which they are asso-
ciated IN their natural state, resulting in
the separation Of crystallizable and
amorphous alkaloids with various de.
gress OF capacity for acting as acids, or
bases, thus providing new compounds
now extensively used by the physicians.
As an illustration take valerian, an
old drug nsed for ages. Chemistry iso-
lates an acid, yalerianic, this combines
with organic and inorganic gases,
producing long line OF elegant and va =
liable salts with valuable properties, Of
which valerian, morphia. quinia, iron,
| etc are examples, which when divided
| into pills and granules, coated with
| sugar or gelatine, present examples OF
the best results Of pharmacy in etectu
ally covering an odor Objectionable to
many delicate and sensitive persons
The manipulations OF the solid en-
tracts, various salts, oxides, &c, 80 as to
get them ready for administration in
proper quantities, covered also by gela.
tine or concealed by trochees or cap
sules, must be regarded as one OF the
latest triumphs OF pharmacy.
Fluid extracts represent another
phase of pharmaceutical advance upon
the various processes by which these
are obtained so a. to preserve the valus.
bic properties OF the various substances
acted ON. A large amount OF time, skill
and labor have been expended with i'm
portant results to the most complete
and perfect satisfaction.
The various elixers may be cited as q
more perfect illustration not only OF the
elegant, but OF the substantial triumphs
OF pharmacy. The long list OF ellxirs
now prepared and to which others are
c)ntinually being added from time to
time, may well be noted as among the
ophies Of the pharmaceutical art.
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS.
OF pure chemicals, chloroform, eli oral
hydrate, carbolic acid, nitrate OF amyl,
caffein and the baine may be named as
owing their existence to the chemistry
and pharmacy OF the three past decades
and rank among the most notable
achievements OF pharmacy and chemis
! try OF any age, some OF which, and the
compounds derived through them a.
the carbolates and sulpho Carlo. ates, are
playing conspicuous parts in modern
life and civilization.
No doubt many Of these pharmaceu.
tical novelties will pass into disuse and
oblivion but many will become as pr
manent as the preparations OF crude
opium )r the cinchona barks. Every
thing pertaining to life and science and
art has its passing phases Of fashion, and
80 will these. Another notable advance
OF pharmacy is seen in the various
grades OF what are best known as petro-
leum Jelly, cosmoline or vasaline, for
many purposes far SURPRISING all the
older forms OF animal and vegetable fats
and oils, although not entirely displac-
ing them, yet each will hold place in
the pharmacy of the present. And yet
another is seen in the extract OF malt,
or maltine. with the various combina.
tons with other leading drugs and
chemicals. They can hardly be regarded
as passing phase OF fashion, as there is
substantial merit in them, or at least
many Of them.
Pharmacy now presents to the accom-
plished and busy physician, remedial
agents in their most concentrated and
acceptable forms, TO those who have TO
use them, and who has not, may We
askP
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