THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
JULY, 1 846. 
ART. XIX. — ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATES OF THE PHILA- 
DELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
Delivered April 15th, 1846. 
By Joseph Carson, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy. 
Gentlemen, — We are convened on the present occasion 
that you may receive publicly, at the hands of the officers 
of this institution, the testimonials of qualification to engage 
in the exercise of your profession, and by this act, to sever 
the bond by which hitherto you have been united to them. 
From their control and authority you are now to be dismissed, 
and it becomes obligatory upon them, in receiving you as 
equals and associates, to impress upon you a proper com- 
prehension of the obligations you assume. Permit me, 
therefore, as the organ of my colleagues, to engage your 
attention for a brief period, with the effort to set before 
you the principles of action that should regulate your future 
conduct. 
It need hardly be urged, at this time, that the career, upon 
which you have entered, is one of the highest responsibility; 
for in addition to that which must unavoidably devolve 
upon you as citizens, as members of a civilized, refined? 
and Christian community, there is another which is of 
your own assumption, and which you can neither evade nor 
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