4 REMARKS ON THE REVISION OF THE PH ARM ACOPffil A. 
ards, have placed the former in so favorable a light ; that 
the adoption of its formulae is becoming more and more 
general wherever the Dispensatory is known, which may 
be said to be everywhere in the United States, where the 
preparation of medicines is in the hands of the regular 
apothecary or the junior practitioner. 
The American Journal of Pharmacy, by its constant ad- 
vocacy of the authority of the Pharmacopoeia, by its 
steady adherence to an elevated tone in upholding and 
illustrating those scientific principles, without which phar- 
macy is mere empyricism, and by acting as the organ of 
presentation of most of the new remedies which are con- 
stantly arising at home and abroad ; has undoubtedly done 
much in the cause of pharmaceutical reform. 
The Colleges of Pharmacy should also be adduced ; par- 
ticularly the Philadelphia and New York colleges. The 
former, the oldest pharmaceutical institution in the country, 
by her many graduates scattered over the Union, imbued 
with a knowledge of sound principles of pharmacy, is con- 
stantly extending her influence and advocating the cause of 
the National Standard. 
The hundreds who annually resort to the medical schools 
of this and other cities, become necessarily acquainted with 
the precepts of our Pharmacopoeia, and, in retiring to their 
future homes, whether these be in the rising cities and towns, 
or the secluded vallies of the distant West and South, they 
will adopt them in their practice, and respect the authority 
from which they emanate. 
And, finally, the spirit of the age, as exhibited in the 
eager adoption of rapid means of communication by steam 
and electricity, by familiarizing each section of the Union 
with the others, by the constant intermingling of their citi- 
zens, and by the rapid circulation of ideas, is altogether in 
harmony with the existence of a universally acknowledged 
Pharmaceutical Code. 
As six years of the ten which separate the last revision 
