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CODE OF ETHICS ADOPTED BY THE PHILADELPHIA 

 COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 



Pharmacy being a profession which demands knowledge, skill, 

 and integrity on the part of those engaged in it, and being asso- 

 ciated with the medical profession in the responsible duties of pre- 

 serving the public health, and dispensing the useful though often 

 dangerous agents adapted to the cure of disease, its members should 

 be united on some general principles to be observed in their several 

 relations to each other, to the medical profession, and to the public. 



The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy being a permanent, incor- 

 porated institution, embracing amongst its members, a large number 

 of respectable and well educated apothecaries, has erected a standard 

 of scientific attainments, which there is a growing disposition on 

 the part of candidates for the profession to reach ; and being de- 

 sirous, that in relation to professional conduct and probity, there 

 should be a corresponding disposition to advance, its members have 

 agreed upon the following principles for the government of their 

 conduct : 



1st. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia having declared 

 that any connection with, or moneyed interest in apothecaries' stores, 

 on the part of physicians, should be discountenanced ; we in like 

 manner consider that an apothecary being engaged in furthering the 

 interests of any particular physician, to the prejudice of other re- 

 putable members of the medical profession, or allowing any physi- 

 cian a percentage or commission on his prescriptions, is unjust toward 

 that profession and injurious to the public. 



2d. As the diagnosis and treatment of disease belong to the pro- 

 vince of a distinct profession, and as a pharmaceutical education 

 does not qualify the graduate for these responsible offices, we should, 

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