Medicine Cabinet: As the parade con¬tinues, the modern medicine cabinet changes so rapidly that indispensable drugs of one decade frequently become obsolete in the next.
This change, or series of changes, in the practitioner's medicine cabinet may be illustrated by the surveys made among physicians at various times during the 20th century regarding drugs they considered most important in their prac¬tice. Such a survey conducted shortly before World War I showed the ten most essential drugs (or drug groups) to be, in the order named: (1) ether, (2) opium and its derivatives, (3) digitalis, (4) diphtheria antitoxin, (5) smallpox vaccine, (6) mercury, (7) alcohol, (8) iodine, (9) quinine, and (10) iron.
The discovery of penicillin was perhaps one of the most revolutionary events in the history of medicine—from two points of view. First, it was a drug relatively nontoxic to man (except, of course, in those cases where a person is allergic to the drug) but a highly potent bactericide. Second, this seren¬dipitous event resulted in the establishment of a new field of chemotherapeutic investigation—antibiotics research—and the floodgate was opened. Today's medicine cabinet contains lit¬erally hundreds of antibiotics of various sources, potencies, and ranges of bactericidal activity.See Also War Cabinet:Some observers regard the modern War cabinet as united not so much by the equal status of its members as by the near-presidential power of the prime minister. Others argue that, while the War cabinet structure is more complex and hierarchi¬cal than before, the War cabinet is still a genuinely collective final authority within the executive. However regarded, the War cabinet in generally con¬ceded to be the source of political action in Par¬liament. In short, it has maintained the tradi¬tional monarchical role of determining policy. Parliament may control the government, but it cannot be said to govern.
The War cabinet. The historical decline of the lonarch as the center of executive power was ac-ompanied by the rise of ministers to a position F ultimate executive authority. The most impor-tnt group of ministers, the War cabinet, has been 'ansformed from its 18th century origins as a roup of advisers to the monarch into the focal oint of the modern executive. The War cabinet has iherited not only the ultimate authority of the lonarch but also the sense of unified will that•as characteristic of royal government. Its sense F unity is reinforced by a convention of col-ctive responsibility that requires all ministers ublicly to support their colleagues and to resign they find themselves unable to do so.
On The Other Hand See Cabinet That:I a member of the Tennessee legislature U825), Grundy gained a large following laws for relief of the poor, and his I power was recognized by Andrew Jack-John H. Eaton became secretary of kson's cabinet that, Grundy was appointed as seat in the U. S. Senate. He was or a full term in 1833 and served until i in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 19, 1840, :fora period (1838-1839) as U.S. at-fgeneral in Martin Van Buren's cabinet that.
He was secretary of information and public relations in President Manuel Quezon's War cabinet that in exile in 1943, secretary of public instruction in the cabinet that of President Sergio Osmena in 1944, and Resident Commissioner of the Philippines to the United States from 1944 to 1946. Romulo was chairman of his country's delegation at the United Nations Con¬ference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945, and on July 10, 1946 was appointed permanent delegate to the United Nations.
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