MEMOIRS  OF  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY.  101 
requirements ;  but  now  the  time  had  evidently  come.  Every 
intelligent  druggist  and  apothecary  who  appreciated  this  could 
see  also  that  instructions  which  might  be  considered  suitable  for 
the  student  preparing  himself  for  the  duties  of  the  physician 
would  be  only  partially  fitted  for  one  who  was  to  assume  the 
widely  different  responsibilities  of  the  drug  store  and  dispensary. 
There  was,  moreover,  among  the  public  spirited  men  upon 
whom  Henry  Troth  and  Peter  Lehman  called  to  talk  over  this 
newly  awakened  want,  a  feeling  that  such  associated  action  as  they 
proposed  would  bring  strength  and  mutual  support  to  those  en- 
gaged in  the  same  laborious  and  responsible  pursuit,  and  needing 
each  other's  aid  and  counsel.  By  such  association  abuses  might 
be  held  in  check  or  corrected,  the  common  interests  subserved 
and  the  whole  trade  elevated  in  the  estimation  of  its  members 
and  of  the  public. 
Postponing  further  remark  in  this  direction,  let  us  turn  to  the 
minute  book,  where,  under  date  March  13th,  1821,  we  find  the 
minutes  of  the  second  meeting.  The  aforesaid  Committee  now 
made  a  report,  too  long  for  the  purposes  of  this  address,  setting 
forth  that  abuses  had  crept  into  the  drug  and  apothecary  busi- 
ness ;  instances  had  occurred  of  deteriorated  drugs  being  intro- 
duced into  the  shops,  and  valuable  remedies  in  daily  use  being 
adulterated  and  sold  of  inferior  quality  ;  such  abuses,  attributable 
in  part  "  to  want  of  proper  pharmacological  information  on  the 
part  of  some  druggists  and  apothecaries  who  vend  and  of  phy- 
sicians who  buy,"  had  attracted  the  attention  of  those  interested 
in  the  proper  conduct  of  the  trade,  and  had  led  some  druggists 
and  apothecaries,  at  the  suggestion  of  one  of  the  Faculty  of 
Medicine  in  the  University,  to  direct  the  attention  of  the  Trus- 
tees to  the  subject,  in  consequence  of  which  they  have  taken  the 
action  reported  at  the  previous  meeting.  It  was,  however,  ap- 
parent that  the  measures  proposed  by  the  University  were  not 
well  adapted  to  correct  existing  irregularities,  which  could  best 
be  remedied  by  the  interposition  and  active  agency  of  the 
druggists  and  apothecaries  themselves.'' 
To  this  end  the  formation  of  a  College  of  Apothecaries  was 
recommended,  "  the  attention  of  which  will  be  constantly  di- 
rected to  the  qualities  of  articles  broui^ht  into  the  drug  market, 
