154 PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
tensively useful to the student, as we believe there are 
few subjects of like importance upon which our graduates 
are at present so deficient. From what has been said, it 
will be apparent that the Professor of Pharmacy, if one 
should be elected, must enter a field of labor scarcely less 
extensive than that of either of his colleagues in the school, 
and one which he will have to traverse in the double capacity 
of teacher and learner. We look in vain amongst the 
medical literature of the English language for a single 
work devoted exclusively and systematically to this branch 
of knowledge. To French and German Pharmaciens and 
books we are indebted for most that is interesting, instruc- 
tive and'original in regard to Pharmacy. The latter are 
only available to a limited extent in this country, and are 
not well adapted to our different circumstances. 
We would suggest, that as Philadelphia was the first 
city in the Union to organise a College of Pharmacy, and 
has continued to be regarded as the metropolis of Pharma- 
ceutical as well as Medical Science in America, it is pecu- 
liarly appropriate that this measure, so imperatively de- 
manded by our present circumstances, and so necessary to 
an advancement of our profession, corresponding with the 
progress of science and general intelligence in our country, 
should be consummated here. 
It would probably be the means of adding to the class a 
large number of students from a distance, and of diffusing a 
knowledge of correct principles, and uniform practice 
among Apothecaries throughout the country, which would 
be a source of increased revenue to the College, and of 
commendable satisfaction to its members. 
With reference to the time of delivering the proposed 
course of lectures, no difficulty is presented as at first may 
appear. By each professor giving two lectures a week, 
instead of three as at present, and by continuing the course 
six weeks longer, commencing about the second week in 
October, and ending in the fourth week of March, the 
whole ground could be traversed without imposing greater 
