82  Centenary  of  Pharmaceutical  Education.  {^b^yfiSi"1" 
Materia  Medica,  Chemistry  aid  Pharmacy.3  But,  hereafter  it  shall 
be  requisite  for  obtaining  the  degree  that  the  candidates  shall  have 
attended  at  least  two  courses  of  lectures  on  chemistry,  materia 
medica  and  pharmacy  in  the  University. 
The  seed  sown  by  Dr.  John  Morgan  was  now  beginning  to 
bear  fruit,  and  pharmacy  is  very  largely  indebted  for  its  position 
as  an  independent  branch  of  the  medical  profession  to  the  discern- 
ing wisdom  of  this  earnest  advocate  for  the  pure  practice  of  physic. 
It  is  to  the  credit  of  the  medical  faculty  of  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania that  they  recognized  that  the  duties  of  the  apothecary  were 
distinct  from  those  of  the  medical  practitioner,  and  that  pharma- 
cists need  a  special  collegiate  education.  The  trustees  were  con- 
vinced that  the  time  had  now  come  for  the  inauguration  of  a  sys- 
tematic and  scientific  education  for  pharmacists. 
That  this  action  was  both  timely  and  wise  cannot  be  ques- 
tioned, nevertheless,  this  project  of  the  University  looking  toward 
the  establishment  of  a  school  for  pharmacists  aroused  the  latent 
energy  and  the  dormant  pride  and  self-respect  of  those  most 
directly  interested  in  the  needs  and  requirements  of  the  drug  trade. 
The  opposition  became  more  pronounced  as  it  was  more  thoroughly 
discussed.  The  conferring  of  this  degree  by  the  University  upon 
sixteen  of  the  apothecaries  of  the  city  but  added  fuel  to  the  dis- 
satisfaction and  the  advertisement  of  this  degree  by  some  of  the 
recipients  was  to  the  disgust  of  their  competitors.  The  pharmacists 
were  compelled  to  realize  that  the  time  had  come  when  a  plan  must 
be  adopted  for  the  systematic  education  of  those  who  wished  to 
follow  the  profession  of  pharmacy. 
It  is  narrated  that  Peter  K.  Lehman,  one  of  the  old  school  of 
Philadelphia  druggists,  whose  store  was  located  on  the  south  side 
of  Market  Street,  below  Tenth  Street,  went  to  Henry  Troth,  then 
engaged  in  the  wholesale  drug  trade  on  Market  Street,  below  Sev- 
enth, and  giving  vent  to  ,  his  sentiments, ,  indignantly  declared, 
"Henry,  this  won't  do."    This  gave  rise  to  the  inquiry,  "Why  can't 
3  The  minutes  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  disclose  that  the  action 
of  the  University  was  the  outcome  of  a  letter  from  Professor  John  Redman 
Coxe,  on  March  7,  1820,  suggesting  the  propriety  of  granting  licenses,  after 
examination,  to  apothecaries.! 
