PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
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3d. As the practice of Pharmacy can only become 
uniform, by an open and candid intercourse being kept up 
between apothecaries, which will lead them to discounte- 
nance the use of secret formulse, and promote the general 
use and knowledge of good practice, and as this College 
considers that any discovery which is useful in alleviating 
human suffering, or in restoring the diseased to health, 
should be made public for the good of humanity and the 
general advancement of the healing art, — no member of 
this College should originate or prepare a medicine, the 
composition of which is concealed from other members, or 
from regular physicians. 
Whilst the College does not at present feel authorized to 
require its members to abandon the sale of secret or quack 
medicines, they earnestly recommend the propriety of dis- 
couraging their employment, when called upon for an 
opinion as to their merits. 
4th. The apothecary should be remunerated by the public 
for his knowledge and skill, and in his charges should be 
regulated by the time consumed in preparation, as well as 
by the value of the article sold ; although location and 
other circumstances necessarily aflect the rate of charges at 
different establishments, no apothecary [^should intention- 
ally undersell his neighbours with a view to their injury. 
5th. As medical men occasionally commit errors in the 
phraseology of their prescriptions, which may or may not 
involve ill consequences to the patient if dispensed, 
and be injurious to the character of the practitioner ; it is 
held to be the duty of the apothecary, in such cases, to have 
the corrections made, if possible, without the knowledge of 
the patient, so that the physician may be screened from 
censure. When the errors are of such a character as not 
to be apparent, without the knowledge of circumstances 
beyond the reach of the apothecary, we hold him to be 
blameless in case of ill consequences, the prescription being 
