THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL 
OP 
PHARMACY. 
JUL.Y, 1839. 
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 
ART. XIV. — ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE GRADUATES OF* 
THE PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, April 23d 
1839. By Joseph Carson, M. D. Prof, of Mat. Med. and Pharmacy. 
Gentlemen: 
To comply with an established custom, I present myself 
before you upon the present occasion, having been appointed 
the organ of the Institution, in which have been pursued 
the studies requisite to qualify you for the exercise of your 
profession. In addressing you, however, it would be im- 
possible to divest myself of the feelings and sympathies 
which have arisen from the relation hitherto existing 
between us, a relation originating in the part I have taken 
in the direction of your studies. Still retaining, therefore, 
the recollection of the office as your teacher, through which 
I have been intimately associated with you, I conceive that 
I am acting in a two-fold capacity, and that while my claims 
upon your attention are strengthened, I am impelled, by an 
additional motive, to execute faithfully the last official duty in 
which you are interested. 
From the evidence adduced upon examination before the 
constituted authority, your acquirements in the branches of 
science taught in the College of Pharmacy, and the proficiency 
you have attained in the pharmaceutic art, have been deemed 
sufficient to entitle you to the honors of graduation, the reward 
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