Excerpt from The Pharmaceutical Era, Vol. 53: January to December, 1920 The in uence these recent experiences will exert upon the pharmacy of the near future remains to be determined, but leading spirits among those engaged in the calling are optimistic enough to believe that professional pharmacy hereafter will be in the ascendant, yet. Further emphasized and supported 'by the intensive commercial methods of a great. Reconstruction period. All present legis lation points to the further restriction of pharmacy to professional pharmacists. The Federal Narcotic Act and the regulations for the enforcement of the prohibition law make the registered pharma cist the principal pivot around which the enforce ment of these laws revolves. Throughout the coun try educational standards for pharmacists are being advanced. This movement, together with th-e increasing spread of prerequisite las, is a further indication of the direction in which phar macy is tending. Are not these combined movements indicative of the character of the p'harmacopoeial decade upon which we are now entering? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."