THE 
AMERICAN  JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
MARCH,  1869. 
HISTORICAL  MEMOIRS  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA  COL- 
LEGE OF  PHARMACY.    (Part  I.)* 
By  Prof.  Edward  Parrish.  • 
It  must  have  been  in  the  first  or  second  month  of  the  year 
1821  that  Peter  K.  Lehman,  one  of  the  old-school  of  Philadelphia 
druggists,  whose  business  was  located  on  the  south  side  of 
Market  street  below  Tenth  street, f  called  in,  one  day,  as  was 
his  wont,  at  the  store  of  his  neighbor,  Henry  Troth,  then  a 
thriving  wholesale  druggist  on  Market  street  below  Seventh 
streetjj  and  the  two  worthy  druggists  had  a  conversation  of  no 
little  interest  to  us,  as  it  seems  to  have  led  to  the  establishment 
of  this  College  of  Pharmacy. 
Their  talk  grew  out  of  the  fact  that  the  Trustees  and  Faculty 
of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  had  but  recently  determined 
to  extend  their  sphere  of  operations  by  teaching  and  graduating 
young  apothecaries,  and  giving  to  the  more  respectable  already 
established  a  title  of  honor  corresponding  somewhat  to  that  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine,  conferred  upon  physicians.  The  University 
did,  indeed,  proceed  so  far  as  to  confer  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Pharmacy  upon  sixteen  of  the  apothecaries  in  the  city,  (April 
5ih,  1821)  and  one  or  more  of  these,  trading  in  the  immediate 
neighborhood,  paraded  this  newly  acquired  title  upon  sign-boards 
and  in  the  City  Directory,  to  the  great  disgust  of  competitors. 
The  project  of  teaching  the  apprentices  in  the  stores  at  the 
rather  unsuitable  and  very  unseasonable  lectures  in  the  Uni- 
versity met  with  no  favor  on  the  occasion  I  have  alluded  to. 
Henry,  this  won't  do,"  said  Peter  Lehman  ;  ''the  University 
*  Extracted  from  the  Introductory  Address  at  the  opening  of  the  School 
of  Pharmacy,  Oct.,  1868. 
t  Old  No.  320.  X  Now  No.  630. 
