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concluded  to  confer,  upon  suitable  restrictions,  the  title  of  Master  in  Pharmacy 
through  its  medical  department.  The  pharmacists  of  Philadelphia  objected  to 
this,  and  in  1821  instituted  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  which  in  a 
few  years  was  followed  by  similar  institutions  in  New  York,  Baltimore  and 
subsequently  in  other  cities,  whereupon  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  de- 
sisted from  its  proposed  undertaking,  and  has  ever  since  been  among  the  firm- 
est friends  and  supporters  of  the  separate  education  of  the  pharmacist. 
Nor  are  these  views  peculiar  to  this  city,  or  even  this  country.  Everywhere 
throughout  the  civilized  world,  where  the  pharmacist  is  still  dependent  for 
his  education  upon  medical  institutions  alone,  he  is  endeavoring  to  free  himself 
from  this  unjust  bondage,  insufficient  in  its  practical  results.  These  views  are 
admirably  expressed  in  the  following  passage  of  the  address  sent  last  year  by 
the  North  German  Apothecaries'  Society  to  the  American  Pharmaceutical 
Association  :* 
"We  are  all  united  upon  the  common  principle,  that  pharmacy  can  thrive 
only  under  the  guidance  of  pharmacists.  To  attain  such  control  has  been 
our  aim  ever  since  our  Society  was  founded.  Pharmacy — though  it  would  lose 
its  main  support  with  the  downfall  of  medicine — has  elevated  itself  to  a  certain 
independence  ;  it  has  considerably  aided  medicine  by  cultivating  the  sciences 
of  chemistry,  physics,  and  botany;  and  an  independent  position  must  be  con- 
ceded to  it,  since,  like  the  allied  professions,  it  is  too  comprehensive  to  be  made 
subordinate  to  another." 
The  Bogus  Diploma  Business. — Both  houses  of  the  Legislature  have  passed 
a  bill  annulling  the  charter  of  the  Eclectic  College  of  Pennsylvania,  formerly 
situate  in  Haines  street  above  Sixth  ;  then  at  northeast  corner  of  Sixth  and 
Callowhill,  and  lately  in  Pine  street  between  Fifth  and  Sixth,  of  which  Dr. 
John  Buchanan  is  dean.  Also  of  the  American  College,  once  at  the  corner  of 
Eighth  and  Noble  streets  ;  alias  the  Eclectic  College  of  Philadelphia,  situate  in 
Friends'  School  Building,  Cherry  street  near  Fifth  ;  alias  the  Philadelphia  Uni- 
versity of  Medicine,  latterly  in  Ninth  street  below  Locust,  of  which  the  notori- 
ous Dr.  William  Paine  has  been  the  principal.  The  reason  for  this  action  was 
because  these  institutions  have  become  bogus  diploma  shops,  and  peddled  out 
the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  to  barkeepers,  tavern-keepers,  professional 
gamblers,  horse-jockeys  and  ignorant  negro  quacks,  who  had  never  studied 
medicine,  and  were  not  required  to  do  so.  In  this  action  the  Legislature  has 
done  exactly  what  was  right. — Philadelphia  Sunday  Dispatch,  March  24. 
Pharmaceutical  LecxIslation  in  the  United  States. — The  proposed  phar- 
maceutical law  for  New  Jersey  has  again  been  defeated.  We  hope  that  the 
friends  of  the  measure  will  not  despair  of  final  success,  but  remember  that  in- 
difference shown  now  may  be  the  cause  of  becoming  burdened  with  such  an  ob- 
jectionable law  as  is  still  in  existence  in  New  York  City,  which,  however,  we 
trust  will  soon  be  repealed.  The  prospects  seem  bright  in  Maryland  for  secur- 
ing an  improvement  upon  the  Baltimore  law.  The  modified  bill  approved  by 
the  pharmacists  and  druggists  of  Philadelphia  has  passed  the  House,  and  is 
pending  in  the  Senate  of  Pennsylvania,  before  which  body  is  also  a  bill  taxing 
every  pharmacist  in  the  State  for  the  support  of  three  men,  who  are  to  con- 
stitute an  examining  board.  The  antagonism  existing  between  the  two  bills 
before  the  Legislature  of  Ohio,  is  likely  to  kill  both. 
*  Proceedings  Amer.  Pharm.  Assoc.,  1871,  p.  78. 
