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ferent  states  are  not  antagonistic  to  the  development  of  pharmacy, 
or  to  the  advancement  of  medicine.  There  are  other  men,  how- 
ever, who  believe  that  the  ultimate  aim  of  it  all  is  class  legislation, 
that  will  permit  entrance  into  professional  life,  only  to  the  sons  of 
the  rich,  and  that  will  forever  prohibit  any  opportunity,  in  a  profes- 
sional direction,  to  less  fortunate  people. 
Let  us  consider  some  of  the  conditions,  as  exemplified  in  the 
text  that  heads  this  article,  and  as  described  in  the  extracts  from 
the  editorial  in  the  Druggists'  Circular.  The  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  is  among  the  very  first,  if  not  the  first,  of  the  pharmacy 
educational  institutions  in  America.  Since  1825  its  journal,  the 
American  Journal  of  Fjharmacy,  has  been  ably  edited  by  men 
irreproachably  qualified  in  pharmacy,  chemistry,  botany  and  allied 
sciences.  Under  such  auspices  the  college  has  been  a  record  breaker 
as  an  educator  of  American  pharmacists.  Indeed,  we  would  chal- 
lenge any  man  to  find  a  location  in  America  not  graced,  and  well 
graced,  with  a  graduate  of  this  college.  From  this  institution  have 
gone,  in  liberal  numbers,  teachers  for  all  other  pharmacy  colleges, 
and  we  question  if  there  be  in  all  America  a  college  of  pharmacy 
that  has  not  in  its  faculty  at  least  one  who  has  not  taken  his  diploma 
from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  Its  faculty  has  ever 
been  the  very  bone  and  sinew  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  As- 
sociation. To  merely  mention  her  graduates  who  have  reached 
prominence  in  the  pharmaceutical  business  and  educational  world, 
would  be  to  fill  this  page  with  a  list  of  names.  The  authors  of  the 
great  United  States  Dispensatory,  from  its  very  beginning,  have 
been  professors  in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  and  when 
that  admirable  work,  the  National  'Dispensatory,  appeared,  the 
pharmacy,  chemistry  and  botanical  portions  were  from  the  pen  of 
that  wheelhorse  of  American  pharmacy,  John  M.  Maisch.  The  first 
conspicuous  work  on  pharmacy  published  in  this  country,  over  half 
a  century  ago,  was  written  by  Professor  Parrish,  almost  the  founder 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  while  the  works  of  Pro- 
fessor Sadtler,  the  author-chemist,  show  him  to  have  been  one  of 
the  most  renowned  of  the  profession.  From  the  days  of  these  great 
men,  to  the  present  time,  the  illustrious  record  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy  has  been  conspicuous,  the  latest  publications 
being  the  prodigious  work  of  Professor  Joseph  P.  Remington,  the 
present  Chairman  of  the  Revision  Committee  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
