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servedly be expended. Agreeable as would be the occupation, 
I cannot dwell long, or minutely, upon the picture exhibited 
by the flattering condition of Pharmacy in the more favored 
regions of Europe, and I must turn to notice briefly its state 
in our own land, whither it has been transplanted. In ventur- 
ing on this topic, I am aware the ground on which I tread is 
difficult, and I shall only introduce it so far as will enable me 
to carry out the tenor of the reflections on which I have 
already entered. 
Pharmacy, with us has experienced some vicissitudes of 
fortune, and undergone changes of a nature calculated to con- 
duce to its amelioration; these have in part been attributable 
to the surrounding circumstances by which it has been 
influenced, and partly to the well devised measures adopted 
by those to whom its guardianship has been committed. A 
long time has not elapsed, since it has been erected into a se- 
parate and independent profession, prior to which occur- 
rence, it formed a portion of the avocations of the physican; 
the period had arrived when a separation became expedient, 
determined by the growing demands of the community, and 
the ample patronage that could be conferred upon a distinct 
body of pharmaceutists; such a step was well calculated to 
promote its interests. Among a people constituted like our- 
selves, of whom the predominant feature is stirring enterprise, 
prevalent among all classes and in every pursuit, it were not 
possible that Pharmacy should remain unaffected by the 
activity around; consequently, soon after the transfer alluded 
to was effected, its susceptibilities of better management and 
regulation were so evident to the enlightened gentlemen to 
whose hands it was intrusted, as to induce them to make 
an attempt to remedy its deficiencies ; and the results 
evince the wisdom, zeal, and spirit by which they were 
actuated. Under their auspices, the basis of a reformation 
was established, the extent of which, though small at first, has 
gradually increased, and now holds out the prospect of universal 
prevalence. It enters not into my plan to specify the innova- 
