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Modern Cabinet:
Some observers regard the modern 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 cabinet structure is more complex and hierarchical than before, the cabinet is still a genuinely collective final authority within the executive. However regarded, the cabinet in generally conceded to be the source of political action in Parliament. In short, it has maintained the traditional monarchical role of determining policy. Parliament may control the government, but it cannot be said to govern.The 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 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 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.
As the parade continues, 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 practice. 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.
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