THE 
AMERICAN  JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY. 
JANUARY,  1859. 
PHARMACEUTICAL  NOTES  OF  TRAVEL. 
By  Edward  Parrish. 
Having,  during  the  past  summer,  forsaken  my  usual  profes- 
sional pursuits  to  dip  into  some  of  the  old  fountains  of  pharma- 
ceutical knowledge,  I  proceed  to  fulfil  an  implied  promise  by 
contributing  some  of  my  acquisitions,  to  the  common  stock.  On  a 
review  of  my  notes  of  travel,  I  find  that  many  facts  which 
struck  me  as  most  important  at  the  moment  of  learning  them, 
have  been  left  entirely  to  the  tenure  of  a  memory  over-crowded 
with  new  and  strange  objects  ;  while  some  things  which  arrested 
my  attention,  as  in  strong  contrast  with  our  home  institutions, 
are  too  familiar  to  the  readers  of  the  Journal,  through  previous 
publications,  to  bear  recording. 
Having  elsewhere  contributed  some  hasty  correspondence  on 
the  dispensing  shops  of  London,  Edinburgh  and  Paris,  and  at 
the  Pharmaceutical  Meetings  of  our  College  shown  and  described 
the  principal  novelties  in  Materia  Medica,  collected  among  the 
English  and  French  pharmaceutists,  I  propose  to  devote  this 
essay  chiefly  to  the  pharmaceutical  organizations  and  institutions 
for  instruction,  and  to  the  manufacturing  establishments  wThich, 
through  the  kindness  of  friends,  I  was  permitted  to  visit. 
At  the  risk  of  being  too  discursive,  I  shall  endeavor,  for  my  own 
convenience,  to  carry  the  reader  to  some  of  the  most  important 
localities  visited  during  the  tour,  noting  the  most  interesting 
items  at  each,  rather  than  attempt  a  classification  of  the  subjects 
treated  of.  The  essay  will  thus  partake  rather  of  the  narrative 
than  of  the  didactic  style,  and  if  it  please  the  general,  more 
than  the  critical  reader,  be  it  so. 
