78  Advantage  of  Preliminary  Examination.  {^""'FeT^sld^^^' 
language  which  says :  "  to  dispense  and  prepare  drugs  and  medicines 
requires  knowledge  and  skill  of  a  peculiar  kind/^  "  it  is  the  duty  of 
good  government  to  protect  its  citizens  from  ills  and  dangers/^  "  insti- 
tuted (the  College)  for  the  purpose  of  cultivating,  improving  and 
making  known  a  knowledge  of  pharmacy  and  its  collateral  branches 
of  science.'^ 
In  the  application  of  these  remarks,  in  so  far  as  they  may  apply  to 
all  interested,  no  spirit  of  unkindness  exists ;  nor  tendency  to  deter  the 
earnest  and  thoughtful  student  from  the  pursuit  of  a  study  congenial 
to  his  tastes  and  inclination.  Pharmacy  wants  cultured  and  educated 
men,  needs  them  urgently  to  raise  up  the  status  of  a  dignified  and 
worthy  profession ;  but  she  wants  none  to  venture  under  a  self-imposed 
conviction  that  the  path  to  her  portals,  and  through  her  broad  fields  of 
science  is  smooth,  straight  and  easy  of  pursuit.  This  College  is  eager 
to  extend  to  all  fitted  aspirants  a  helping  hand,  and  extending  to  these 
her  offices,  share  in  the  pride  of  their  success  and  future  eminence. 
The  range  of  studies  required  to  fit  the  man  has  become  so  wide 
that  a  great  part  of  his  preparation  must  be  accomplished  before  the 
College  assumes  the  guardianship  of  his  further  progress ;  if  deferred 
until  afterwards,  the  deficiency  will  never  be  made  up.  The  Phila- 
delphia College  of  Pharmacy  is  not  willing  longer  to  assume  the  risks 
of  the  past.  A  sound  elementary  and  rudimentary  instruction  before 
collegiate  courses  will  make  the  students'  instruction  here  a  matter  of 
far  more  easy  comprehension,  and  when  the  final  test  comes  he  falls 
back  upon  a  well-grounded  structure  of  preliminary  knowledge,  with 
a  self-dependent  feeling  of  confidence  greatly  to  his  credit  and  advan- 
tage. This  College,  like  a  parent,  feels  the  greater  pride  in  her 
brightest  children,  but  nevertheless  with  true  parental  instinct  she 
loves  them  all. 
Philadelphia,  January  20,  1885. 
Use  of  Cocaine.— Dr.  Jelinek  obtained  temporary  relief  in  a  ease  of 
painful  deglutition  by  applying  to  the  back  part  of  the  mouth  a  ten  per 
cent,  solution  of  cocaine  (  Wiener  Med.  Woch.  Schr.)  Dr.  Murrell  has 
used  cocaine  hydrochlorate  in  neuralgia,  relief  being  afforded  by  hypo- 
dermic injection  ;  but  he  prefers  a  20  per  cent,  solution  of  the  salt  in  oil  of 
cloves,  of  which  from  5  to  10  minims  are  rubbed  in  with  the  finger.— ^H^. 
Med.  Jour. 
