PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OP PHARMACY. 149 
druggists and apothecaries ; and the adoption and publica- 
tion of approved formulae, appear to have been prominent 
features in the plan of its founders ; yet it will be seen by 
reference to the minutes that the establishment of a School 
of Pharmacy was early an object of paramount concern 
with the members of the College, and has always been re- 
garded as the chief means of correcting the abuses which 
had obtained in the profession, and of placing it on the re- 
spectable footing it ought to possess as a branch of the 
science of medicine. 
In organizing the School of Pharmacy, it was found ne- 
cessary to seek professors in the ranks of the medical pro- 
fession — few, if any, of the Apothecaries had so accustomed 
themselves to the systematic study of the several branches 
connected with the practice of our profession, as to be pre- 
pared to assume the office of teachers. Hence it is not sur- 
prising that the theory and practice of Pharmacy, although 
held to be of the highest importance to the student, was not 
allotted to a professor as a separate branch of instruction, 
but was appended secondarily to the branches of materia 
medica and chemistry. The question now arises whether, 
by the lectures in our school, and by other means tending 
to create a greater taste for scientific attainment among 
those who practice our profession, so much advancement 
has been made, as to warrant the appointment of a practical 
Apothecary to teach, in a scientific manner, what has 
hitherto, in America and England, been the confused and 
unsystematized art of Pharmacy. This is the question 
which the College is now called upon to decide. It is ob- 
vious that an imperative demand exists, either for some 
change in the organization of the School of Pharmacy, by 
which our graduates may be instructed in this branch, or 
for additional regulations limiting or altering the terms of 
graduation, so as to deprive of the degree that class of stu- 
dents, who, from the circumstances in which they are placed, 
and from no fault of their own, cannot become fully quali- 
