liiS PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
A CODE OF ETHICS ADOPTED BY THE PHILADELPHIA 
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
Pharmacy being a profession which demands knowledge? 
skill, and integrity on the part of those engaged in it, and 
being associated with the medical profession in the re- 
sponsible duties of preserving the public health, and dis- 
pensing the useful though often dangerous agents adapted 
to the cure of disease, its members should be united on some 
general principles to be observed in their several relations 
to each other, to the medical profession, and to the public. 
The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy being a perma- 
nent, incorporated institution, embracing amongst its mem 
bers a large number of respectable and well educated 
apothecaries, has erected a standard of scientific attain- 
ments, which there is a growing disposition on the part of 
candidates for the profession to reach ; and being desirous, 
that in relation to professional conduct and probity, there 
should be a corresponding disposition to advance, its mem 
bers haY© agreed upon the following principles for the 
government of their conduct : 
1st. The College of Physicians of Philadelphia having 
declared that any connection with, or monied interest in 
apothecaries' stores, on the part of physicians, should be 
discountenanced ; we in like manner consider that an 
apothecary being engaged in furthering the interests of any 
particular physician, to the prejudice of other reputable 
members of the medical profession, or allowing any physi- 
cian a percentage or commission on his prescriptions, as 
unjust toward that profession and injurious to the public. 
2d. As the diagnosis and treatment of disease belongs to 
the province of a distinct profession, and as a pharmaceutical 
education does not qualify the graduate for these responsi- 
ble offices: we should, where it is practicable, refer appli- 
cants for medical aid to a regular physician. 
