Am.  J.  Ph.] 
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[June,  1907 
PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF  PHARMACY. 
FOOD  AND  DRUG  ANALYSIS  COURSE. 
A  new  course  for  the  special  instruction  and  training  of  Food  and  Drug 
Analysts ,  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
By  reason  of  the  passage  of  the  National  Food  and  Drugs  Act  on  June  30, 
1906,  there  has  developed  a  pressing  need  for  trained  chemical  and  microscopi- 
cal analysts,  not  only  on  the  part  of  the  United  States  Government,  for  the 
practical  execution  of  this  law,  but  also  on  the  part  of  large  manufacturing 
houses  and  dealers  in  drugs  and  chemicals. 
The  importance  of  the  subject  is  such  that  the  trustees  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  have  considered  it  necessary  to  provide  greatly  enlarged 
facilities,  and  to  establish  a  distinct  and  independent  two  years'  course  to 
cover  this  work  in  a  fuller  and  more  complete  way. 
The  regular  course  on  this  subject  as  planned  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  will 
cover  two  years  of  eight  months  each  of  continuous  work,  beginning  in 
October  of  each  year. 
FIRST  YEAR. 
In  the  first  year  of  this  course,  the  students  receive  parts  of  the  regular 
didactic  chemical  instruction  given  to  the  students  of  the  first  and  second  years 
of  the  regular  three-year  pharmacy  course,  as  well  as  portions  of  the  first-year 
and  second-year  pharmacy  lectures  of  the  same  course.  In  addition  to  these, 
weekly  exercises  in  the  Botanical  and  Microscopical  Laboratory  on  plant  struc- 
ture and  microscopical  technique  will  be  provided,  and  in  the  Chemical 
Laboratory  instruction  will  be  given  in  qualitative  chemical  analysis,  and  the 
examination  of  unknown  substances  both  liquid  and  solid,  as  well  as  a  course 
upon  the  examination  of  the  pharmacopceial  chemicals  for  identity  and  purity* 
SECOND  year. 
In  the  second  year  the  students  will  attend  the  complete  course  on  general 
and  pharmaceutical  organic  chemistry  given  in  the  third-year  pharmacy  course, 
as  well  as  the  supplementary  course  of  lectures  in  food  analysis  and  adultera- 
tion. A  course  in  chemical  mathematics  is  also  arranged  for  the  students  of 
this  year.  In  addition,  a  special  course  for  students  of  this  course  only,  will  be 
given  on  the  manufacturing  processes  and  products  of  organic  chemistry,  as 
well  as  a  course  of  lectures  on  the  natural  history  and  geographical  distribu- 
tion of  foods  and  drugs,  and  a  course  upon  the  general  medicinal  properties 
of  drugs. 
All  the  time  not  required  for  these  courses  of  lectures  is  given  to  the  work 
of  the  microscopical  and  chemical  laboratories.  In  the  former,  the  micro- 
scopical study  of  powdered  drugs,  spices,  foods,  fibers,  and  vegetable  products, 
together  with  fats  and  other  animal  products,  is  taken  up  in  detail  and  a  full 
course  of  technical  microscopy  is  planned  in  this  connection.  These  lectures 
and  laboratory  exercises  will  be  supplemented  by  a  number  of  excursions  to 
manufacturing  establishments  and  elsewhere. 
In  the  chemical  laboratory,  the  instruction  in  this  year  will  cover  the 
fundamental  methods  for  gravimetric,  volumetric,  gasometric  and  colorimetric 
processes,  and  particularly  in  their  application  to  pharmacopceial  chemicals 
and  preparations. 
