8o 
Centenary  of  Pharmaceutical  Education. 
5  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
(  February,  1921. 
DR.  JOHN  MORGAN 
lish  practitioners  had  been  followed  and  continued  until  the  initiation  of  the 
dissociation  movement  advocated  by  Dr.i  Morgan. 
"We  must  regret  that  the 
very  different  employment  of 
physician,  surgeon  and  apothecary 
should  be  promiscuously  followed 
by  any  one  man.  They  certainly 
require  very  different  talents. 
"The  business  of  pharmacy  is 
essentially  different  from  either, 
free  from  the  cares  of  both,  the 
apothecary  is  to  prepare  and  com- 
pound medicines  as  the  physician 
shall  direct.  Altogether  engaged 
in  this,  by  length  of  time  he  at- 
tains to  that  skill  therein  which  he 
could  never  have  arrived  at  were 
}his  attention  distracted  by  a  great 
variety  of  other  subjects. 
"The  wisdom  of  ages  ap- 
proved by  experience,  the  most  cer- 
tain test  of  knowledge,  has  taught 
us  the  necessity  and  utility  of  ap- 
pointing different  persons  for 
these  different  employments,  and  accordingly  we  find  them  prosecuted  sepa- 
rately in  every  wise  and  polished  country. 
"The  paying  of  a  physician  for  attendance  and  the  apothecary  for  his 
medicines  apart,  is  certainly  the  most  eligible  mode  of  practice  both  to  the 
patient  and  practitioner.  The  apothecary,  then,  who  is  not  obliged  to  spend 
his  time  in  visiting  patients,  can  afford  to  make  up  medicines  at  a  reasonable 
price,  and  it  is  as  desirable  as  just  in  itself  that  patients  should  allow  fees 
for  attendance — whatever  it  may  be  thought  to  deserve. 
"They  ought  to  know  what  it  is  they  really  pay  for  their  medicine  and 
what  for  medical  advice  and  attendance." 
While  in  Europe  he  wrote,  "I  am  now  preparing  for  America, 
to  see  whether  after  fourteen*  years'  devotion  to  medicine  I  can 
get  my  living  without  turning  apothecary  or  practitioner  of  surgery." 
It  is  apparent  that  this  erudite  and  accomplished  medical  leader  of 
the  time  had  a  clear  vision  of  the  proper  field  to  be  occupied  by 
the  co-ordinate  branches  of  medicine,  and  that  the  process  of  the 
evolution  of  medicine  and  the  dissociation  of  these  branches  in 
America  can  be  traced  to  his  early  teaching. 
In  the  announcement  of  the  opening  of  the  first  medical  school 
appeared  this  succinct  statement,  "In  order  to  render  the  course  of' 
