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THE  FOUNDING  OF  THE  PHILADELPHIA  COLLEGE  OF 
PHARMACY  AND  SCIENCE* 
By  Charles  H.  LaWall,  Ph.G.  (1893),  Ph.M.  (1906), 
Dean  and  Professor  of  Pharmacy, 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science. 
We  of  the  present  are  met  together  upon  this  Centennial  occa- 
sion to  do  homage  to  those  of  the  past.  The  debt  to  the  Founders 
of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  and  Science  is  not  ours 
alone.  It  is  society's  debt  which  we,  as  co-sharers  in  the  benefits 
which  have  resulted  from  that  act,  are  privileged  to  repay  in  part 
by  ceasing  from  our  present  labors  for  a  time  in  order  that  we 
may  bring  proper  tribute  to  the  memory  of  those  men  and  do  justice 
to  their  accomplishments. 
America  one  hundred  years  ago  was  a  sparsely  settled  country, 
with  few  and  difficult  means  of  intercommunication  between  dis- 
tant points,  neither  railways  nor  canals  having  yet  appeared. 
Philadelphia  one  hundred  years  ago  was  the  largest  and  most 
important  city  in  these  United  States,  which  had  yet  to  celebrate 
their  semi-centennial  as  a  nation. 
To  properly  appreciate  the  atmosphere  in  which  these  men 
lived  and  the  difficulties  under  which  they  labored  we  must  refresh 
our  minds  regarding  some  of  the  material  changes  that  have  taken 
place  since  that  time. 
A  glimpse  at  a  Philadelphia  city  directory  for  1821  will  give 
us  an  impression  of  the  period  through  certain  occupations  which 
are  listed  with  frequency,  and  which  are  missing  in  a  directory  of 
today.  Bleeder  and  Barber  is  one  of  the  noteworthy  instances  of 
a  peculiar  occupation  which  continued  even  beyond  that  period, 
reminding  us  that  the  surgeon  was  not  necessarily  a  medical  doctor, 
nor  even  a  person  of  education.  This  is  perpetuated  in  the  red  and 
white  striped  barber  pole  of  today,  then  the  advertising  sign  of  the 
bloodletter. 
Sea  Captain,  Mariner,  Shipwright,  Sailmaker  are  redolent  of 
the  days  of  wooden  sailing  ships,  then  supreme  upon  Poseidon's 
realm  and  just  beginning  to  be  displaced  by  steamboats  upon  the 
inland  waters  of  our  eastern  coast. 
*An  address  delivered  at  the  Centennial  Celebration  of  Founders'  Day, 
February  23,  1921. 
