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Editorial. 
[Am.  Jour.  Pharm„ 
t    April  1, 1871. 
for  him,  as  Editor  of  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  be  directed  to  himi 
at  the  College  of  Pharmacy,  145  North  10th  Street,  Philadelphia. 
The  Retiring  Editor  to  his  Friends  and  Readers. — The  time  havings 
arrived  when  the  Editor's  resignation  is  to  take  effect,  he  may  be  permitted  to 
say  a  few  parting  words  to  his  friends  and  readers.  Of  the  Journal  itself  he 
has  little  to  say;  whatever  merits  or  faults  his  connection  with  its  pages  has 
had,  may  be  known  to  all,  and  must  receive  the  award  which  time  will  be  sure  to- 
render.  The  path  editorial  has  not  always  been  found  smooth  and  free  from 
thorns;  not  a  few  instances  have  occurred  where  the  line  of  duty  has  run  very 
nearly  athwart  that  of  personal  friendship,  causing  a  feeling  of  soreness.  At 
other  times  offence  has  unintentionally  been  given  ;  yet,  as  the  governing  mo- 
tive has  been  based  upon  a  sense  of  rectitude,  he  has  continued  his  course  steadily 
onward,  accepting  the  result.  So  far  as  is  remembered,  most  of  the  wounds 
thus  occasioned  have  kindly  healed.  That  many  errors  in  judgment  have  oc- 
curred is  not  improbable,  and,  in  looking  back  over  so  long  a  record,  there  are 
many  things  that  could  now  be  better  done,  and  some  things  omitted  that 
should  have  been  accomplished  ;  yet,  through  all  the  happenings  of  this  period 
the  constancy  of  the  flow  of  friendly  interest,  which  has  reached  him  from 
members  of  the  College  and  other  friends,  far  and  near,  will  ever  be  a  source 
of  grateful  recollection  and  satisfaction  ;  and  to  these  he  desires  to  extend  his 
sincere  acknowledgements,  as  well  as  to  those  editorial  friends  at  home  and 
abroad,  who  have  recently  spoken  kind  words  in  reference  to  his  retirement 
from  active  service.  In  returning  among  his  fellow-pharmaceutists,  the  Editor 
disclaims  the  idea  of  ceasing  to  be  a  worker,  and  it  is  not  improbable  that  he 
may  occasionally  claim  a  few  pages  as  a  volunteer,  and  in  other  ways  to  aid  the 
cause  of  pharmacy. 
The  Practical  School  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. — 
This  school  was  opened  in  October  last  by  Prof.  John  M.  Maisch  under  circum- 
stances unfavorable  to  its  immediate  growth,  the  room  not  being  ready  when 
the  lecture  season  commenced,  and  the  apparatus  and  tests  had  to  be  obtained 
and  prepared  afterwards.  Notwithstanding  these  drawbacks,  eight  young  men 
took  the  course  on  Practical  Pharmacy  and  seventeen  that  on  Analytical  Chem- 
istry. The  pharmacy  course  included  the  practical  details  of  drying,  powder- 
ing and  sifting  drugs  for  all  purposes.  Percolation  (with  the  preparation  of 
tinctures,  fluids  extracts,  solid  extracts,  resins  and  oleo-resins).  Distillation 
(with  the  recovery  of  alcohol  and  the  preparation  of  distilled  waters,  spirits,, 
etc.,  pill  masses,  pills,  emulsions  and  other  extemporaneous  preparations,  and 
finally  the  preparation  and  purification  of  pharmaceutical  chemicals.) 
The  chemical  course  included  proximate  analysis  and  the  preparation  of 
proximate  principles,  (such  as  those  of  storax,  opium,  aconite,  hydrastis  and 
liquorice  root),  qualitative  analysis  of  simple  and  complex  compounds,  inorganic 
bases,  inorganic  and  the  commoner  organic  acids,  always  with  special  reference 
to  pharmaceutical  wants. 
The  following  is  a  list  of  the  classes  : 
