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in  the  United  States  is  denied  to  no  one.  In  the  case  of  the  Uni- 
versities, the  opulent  from  their  abundance  support  them  ;  for  the 
public  schools,  rich  and  poor  alike  are  taxed  for  their  maintenance  ; 
but,  when  we  come  to  Pharmacy,  it  will  be  seen  that  the  highly- 
favored  of  this  land  have  entirely  overlooked  us.  Pharmacy  has  no 
school  tax  on  which  to  depend  ;  she  has  never  even  applied  to  the 
Legislature  for  an  appropriation.  The  treasury  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  has  been  enriched  by  but  one  bequest  in  seventy- 
two  years,  that  of  a  small  legacy  in  1 865  for  the  purchase  of  books  and 
scientific  apparatus.  The  money  which  has  been  spent  in  this  work 
comes  entirely  from  the  "  druggists  of  this  country."  All  honor  to 
them !  When  the  College  has  needed  a  new  building,  there  have 
not  been  wanting  friends  of  the  institution,  in  the  drug  trade  or  in 
the  collateral  branches,  who  have  subscribed  liberally  of  their 
means ;  and  the  receipts  from  the  students'  fees  have  paid  the  debts, 
until  it  became  necessary  to  incur  the  next  obligation  through  the 
extension  of  the  buildings.  The  public  itself  and  those  not  directly 
interested  in  the  technical  work  of  pharmacy  have  stood  entirely  aloof, 
although  no  one  can  deny  that  the  public  have  received  the  greatest 
advantages  which  flow  from  higher  pharmaceutical  education. 
Pharmacy's  educational  institutions  have  had  to  rely  solely  on  her  own 
votaries.  Has  not  the  time  come  for  Pharmacy  to  make  its  appeal, 
-to  stand  up,  shoulder  to  shoulder,  with  the  other  Colleges  of  our 
land,  who  are  continually  asking  the  public  for  the  necessary  sinews 
of  war  to  carry  on  the  work  and  has  she  not  a  convincing  argu- 
ment when  she  points  to  the  fact  that  12,700  students  have,  up  to 
this  time,  received  instruction  in  these  halls — impelled  here  solely 
by  the  desire  to  improve  themselves,  and  fit  them  for  better  service 
to  the  public,  entirely  at  their  own  expense  ? 
If  immense  sums  can  be  annually  applied  through  gifts,  bequests, 
endowments,  appropriations  from  Legislature,  and  in  other  ways  for 
the  support  of  Universities  and  Colleges,  which  simply  give  a  gen- 
eral education,  will  it  be  impossible  to  ask  that  a  modest  sum  be  set 
apart,  through  these  same  agencies,  to  aid  in  pharmaceutical  educa- 
tion, whose  importance  to  the  general  weal  is  far  greater,  for  through 
it  flow  the  issues  of  health  or  disease,  safety  or  disaster,  life  or 
.death? 
