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tions,  have  been  established,  devoted  expressly  to  instruction  in 
Pharmacy  and  its  subsidiary  sciences.  On  the  continent,  most  of 
the  respective  governments  have  prohibited,  under  heavy  penalties, 
any  one  from  selling  or  preparing  Drugs  and  Medicines  for  admin- 
istration, who  has  not  passed  through  a  course  of  instruction,  and 
become  practically  acquainted  with  the  business.  In  Great  Britain, 
most  Apothecaries  are  regularly  instructed,  by  attendance  on  the 
lectures  of  the  Colleges  of  Apothecaries  of  London  and  Dublin,  and 
are  associated  as  members,  while  abuses  in  the  business  are  guarded 
against  by  severe  penalties,  enacted  by  Parliamentary  statute. 
In  this  country,  Pharmacy  has  been  entirely  neglected,  as  a 
science.  Previous  instruction  has  not  been  considered  indispen- 
sable, in  order  to  capacitate  an  Apothecary  for  pursuing  his  profes- 
sion, while  very  few  practitioners  of  Medicine  possessed  more  than 
a  superficial  acquaintance  with  the  principles  and  details  of  Phar- 
maceutic knowledge.  From  this  state  of  things,  many  evils,  some 
of  a  serious  and  aggravated  nature,  have  flowed,  urgently  requiring 
correction. 
Many  Apothecaries  of  this  city  have  long  been  sensible  of  the 
necessity  of  taking  some  efficient  measures,  by  which  the  irregu- 
larities and  abuses  that  have  crept  into  their  business,  should  be 
abolished ;  and  that  their  profession  should  be  placed  on  that 
respectable  footing  to  which  it  is  entitled,  by  its  usefulness  to  society, 
and  as  an  important  branch  of  the  science  of  Medicine.  With  these 
views,  they  have  founded  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Apothe- 
caries. 
This  institution  has  already  established  many  wholesome  regu- 
lations for  the  government  of  its  members,  calculated  to  inspire 
confidence  in  all  those  who  are  attached  to  it;  and  has  provided  for 
a  course  of  public  instruction,  under  its  auspices,  in  Materia  Medica 
and  Pharmacy,  and  Pharmaceutical  Chemistry,  with  the  intention  of 
adding,  ultimately,  other  collateral  sciences.  A  Cabinet  is  also 
forming,  of  choice  and  selected  specimens  of  Drugs  and  Medicines, 
of  the  best  qualities. 
An  institution  embracing  so  many  objects  of  high  importance 
and  utility  to  the  Medical  Profession,  and  the  public  generally,  and 
so  well  calculated  to  perfect  those  objects,  cannot  fail  to  meet  the 
approbation  and  support  of  the  liberal  and  well-informed  practi- 
tioner, and  every  member  of  society. 
The  College  announces,  that  the  Course  of  Lectures  will  com- 
