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though troublesome business of extemporaneous pharmacy to the apothe- 
caries : 
To the Public. — The undersigned, practicing Physicians in the town 
of Portsmouth, after consultation, have come to the conclusion to discontinue 
the furnishing of medicines to their patients after the 15th of the present 
month. Patients will be required to procure the necessary medicines from 
the Apothecaries. 
John P. Young, 
J. N. SCHOOLFTELD, 
Geo. W. 0. Maupin, 
John W. H. Trugien, 
James Gregory Hodges, 
John W. Garlick ; 
R. H. Parker. 
American Journal of Pharmacy. — The Publishing Committee have re- 
cently examined into the condition of the stock of volumes of the Journal, 
and find that they can furnish sets from the 8th volume or (2d of the new 
series) to the present time inclusive, amounting to seventeen complete 
volumes. The first of the new series, or seventh from the beginning, is out 
of print. Anterior to that they can supply the 6th, 5th ? 4th and 3d volumes 
of the old series, whilst the 2d and 1st are out' of print. The Committee are 
desirous of purchasing copies of the 1st, 2d. and 7th volumes, and will 
either pay the price of publication or exchange recent volumes for them. 
Believing that the Journal embodies a very large amount of valuable in- 
formation, comprehending in fact a faithful record of the gradual develope- 
ment of pharmaceutical science during the period of its issue, now twenty- 
four years, both in Europe and America, the Committee consider that no 
pharmaceutical library should be without it. They therefore now, for the 
first time, offer the back volumes to the 20th inclusive, at the reduced price 
of $1.50 each, nett, which places them within the reach of almost any man 
in business. Besides the abstract and applied science embraced in this 
work, a very large number of formulae are contained in it, including many 
that, though not officinal, are more or less valuable and in use. They there- 
fore hope that the attention of the recent subscribers will be attracted to 
the subject, and that they will be induced to complete their sets as far as 
practicable. 
Library of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. — Owing to the pe- 
cuniary difficulties which for many years past, this institution has been labor- 
ing under, its Library has in a great degree been neglected. In view of the 
present brighter aspect of its affairs, the Library Committee have solicited 
and obtained from the Board a moderate appropriation, to be devoted to the 
Library in the way chiefly of binding and completing works. As in a 
pharmaceutical library old works of the 18th, 17th and 16th centuries are 
particularly appropriate, as forming a fund of authorities useful to investi- 
