PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY". 
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Among the designs of the founders of the college, as stated 
previously, was that of securing "the discussion of subjects 
relating to the business," and of communicating "information 
beneficial and interesting to the trade." In furtherance of 
these objects, in addition to verbal discussions, from 1821 to 
1829 a number of papers were read before the body, and 
were regarded of sufficient importance to be presented to 
the public ; a journal consisting of four numbers was issued 
during this period, but appeared at distant and irregular in- 
tervals. It was then regarded as important to establish a 
periodical journal, not restricted to original essays, but to 
combine with them such information pertaining to phar- 
macy and its kindred sciences, as could be procured from the 
periodicals and works of the day. The work thus com- 
menced was called the " Journal of the Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy." It was continued under this 
title through six volumes, when in 1835 it was issued by 
the more comprehensive name of "The American Journal 
of Pharmacy." Seventeen complete volumes have now 
appeared, and from the length of time this publication has 
been in progress it has become a rich repository of infor- 
mation. " In its pages are to be found valuable communi- 
cations from our own countrymen, as well as a summary 
of the researches of foreign investigators. It is a record of 
the improvements that have been introduced during the 
period of its continuance." 
Under the management of the College of Pharmacy, the 
Journal has been an influential instrument in enabling it to 
obviate a " departure from the correct customs, and es- 
tablished principles of the Drug and Apothecary business, 
and to direct attention, to the qualities of articles brought 
into the drug market." From a perusal of its contents, it 
will be found that the morals of the profession have not 
been disregarded, and the kinds of fraud and deception to 
which pharmacy is obnoxious, abundantly instanced and 
freely commented on. It is only to be regretted, that from 
