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most  faithfully  prepared  by  Dr.  C.  G.,  to  whom  the  said  medicine 
and  method  of  using  was  long  since  communicated  by  Thomas 
Goddard,  Esq.,  nephew  to  the  said  Dr.  Goddard,  to  whom  alone 
(except  to  His  Majesty)  the  whole  receipt  of  making  the  medicine  was 
communicated.  The  said  medicine  having  been  these  twelve  months 
in  preparing;,  is  now  to  be  had  in  St.  John's  Close,  at  the  House 
where  Dr.  Goddard  lived  and  dyed,  being  the  next  door  to  the  Star 
in  the  Passage  to  Clerkenwell." 
This  medicine  of  Dr.  Jonathan  Goddard  purported  to  be  a  prepa- 
ration of  hartshorn  with  portions  of  the  skull  of  a  criminal  who 
had  been  hanged,  mingled  with  dried  vipers'  bodies  and  other  pecu- 
liar substances  not  disclosed.  It  had  an  enormous  sale  and  the 
recipe  was  sold  to  King  Charles  II,  of  England,  for  £5,000  sterling. 
It  is  interesting  to  study  history  in  its  relation  to  scientific  coloni- 
zation along  the  line  of  what  are  termed  seats  of  learning. 
Cambridge  and  New  Haven  became  pioneers  in  college  education 
devoted  to  the  study  of  general  literature,  but  Philadelphia  was  the 
cradle  of  medicine  and  pharmacy,  and  from  its  colleges  have  gone 
out  men  of  power  to  foster  like  institutions  elsewhere. 
The  history  of  pharmacy  in  Philadelphia  is  intimately  connected 
with  the  conditions  of  settlement  in  the  colony  of  Pennsylvania. 
At  that  time  London  was  the  great  commercial  metropolis,  and 
many  of  her  merchants  were  associated  in  business  interests  with 
those  of  Penn's  growing  city  upon  the  Delaware,  so  that  Philadel- 
phia became  the  principal  mart  for  English  wares,  and  the  drug 
trade  flourished  in  a  fertile  soil.  Old  files  of  our  newspapers  picture 
these  conditions  as  thus  set  forth : 
"  Imported  in  the  last  vessels  and  to  be  sold  Wholesale  and  Retail 
at  the  very  lowest  prices,  by 
Charles  Osborne, 
Druggist  from  London,  at  the  Golden  Pestle,  opposite 
Mr.  Joseph  Trotter's  in  Second  Street." 
"A  large  assortment  of  Druggs,  chymical  and  galenical  Medicines; 
also  Daffy's  Elixir,  James'  Powders,  Bateman's  Drops,  Godfrey's 
Cordial,  Anderson's  Pills,  Squire's  Elixir,  Spirits  of  Scurvy  Grass, 
Bostock's  Elixir,  Lockyer's  Pills,  British  Oil,  Stoughton's  Bitters, 
with  Nipple  Glasses,  pots,  pill-boxes,  vials,  &c,  &c. 
«  N.  B. — Masters  of  ships  not  carrying  Surgeons  with  them  may 
