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EDITORIAL. 
much to hope that ere long Pharmacy will have in this Society an advocate that 
will prove valuable in advancing pharmaceutical interests, in promoting a know- 
ledge of of the sciences connected with pharmacy, and in elevating the standard 
of practice. 
The following are the officers of the Society : 
President — Alexander Duval, 
1st Vice do. — James P. Purcell, 
2d do. do. — J. B. Wood, 
Recording Secretary — Chas. Millspaugh, 
Corresponding do. — S. M. Zachrisson, 
Treasurer — W. S. Beers, 
Librarian — J. Taylor Gray. 
Delegates to the National Convention at Philadelphia. 
Alexander Duval, John Purcell, Joseph Laidley." 
A proper Rebuke. — Some months ago, we noticed the promulgation 
of a code of ethics, modelled after that of our College, by the Richmond 
Medical Society, which was signed by all the apothecaries of Richmond, 
but two. One of these, in a recent advertisement widely circulated on the 
cover of a quack pamphlet, uses the following language : " The Richmond 
Pharmaceutical Society, lately organised here for the purpose of higher 
education, promotion and interchange of knowledge, as well as for the 
purposes to free the Apothecary from the slavish laws dictated to him by 
the members of the medical society, an act which would not have been 
tolerated in a Monarchy, much less in a Republic, have honored me with 
the appointment of secretaryship for European correspondence ; I am there- 
fore placed in a situation to remain always well informed of new inventions 
made in Europe, in our art." 
The Society, justly indignant at such a base use of their name, passed 
the following resolutions, which we cut from the "Richmond Republican" 
for August 30th, 1852 : 
(i At a meeting of the ' Richmond Pharmaceutical Society,' held at their rooms 
on Friday evening, the 27th August, the following resolutions were unanimously 
passed : 
1. Resolved, That the use, by any member of the name of the Society, to 
give expression to his personal feelings towards physicians or others, is highly 
improper, and will meet with our unqualified disapprobation. 
2. Resolved, That the use of the offices of the Society by any of its officers 
for their personal benefit, is highly reprehensible and deserving the severest 
censure and penalties. Alex. Duval, President. 
Chas. Millspaugh, Rec. Sec. 
Pharmacy in Portsmouth, Virginia. — No real progress can be expected 
in the pharmacy of a place where physicians compound their own pre- 
scriptions. On the contrary, the separation of pharmacy from the, practice 
of medicine is a sure indication of the advancement of the former. We 
give place to the following extract from a Portsmouth paper, forwarded to 
us by Mr. Campbell, a graduate of pharmacy recently located in that 
town, with the more pleasure that it evidences such an improvement in the 
condition of our art, that physicians are willing to give up the important 
