jyS  Founding  of  Phila.  College  of  Pharmacy.       \ ^^h,  gg"*' 
The  Trustees  promptly  met  and  organized  by  drafting  by-laws, 
appointing  committees,  etc.,  and  the  committee  appointed  for  that 
purpose  reported  on  plans  for  instruction. 
Early  in  April,  Samuel  Jackson,  M.D.,  was  elected  Professor 
of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  and  Gerard  Troost,  M.D.,  was 
elected  Professor  of  Chemistry. 
Samuel  Jackson's  career  has  already  been  described.  Of  that 
of  Gerard  Troost  much  might  be  written.  He  was  a  native  of  Hol- 
land who  had  but  recently  settled  in  America,  who,  during  the  few 
years  he  resided  in  Philadelphia,  identified  himself  with  much  that 
was  important  in  its  scientific  development.  He  was  the  first 
President  of  the  Academy  of  Natural  Sciences,  later  removed  to 
Nashville,  where  he  associated  himself  with  the  State  University, 
and  still  later,  becoming  State  Geologist,  made  an  illustrous  name 
for  himself  as  paleontologist. 
These  original  professors  were  the  first  of  an  illustrious  line, 
of  which  not  only  our  Institution  but  American  Pharmacy  and 
American  Medicine  may  be  justly  proud.  During  the  first  half 
century  of  the  College,  the  following  names  are  those  of  professors 
of  pharmacy,  materia  medica  and  chemistry :  Jackson.  Troost, 
Ellis,  Wood,  Bache  Griffith,  Fisher,  Bridges,  Carson,  Thomas,  Par- 
rish  and  Procter. 
In  addition  to  inaugurating  the  course  of  instruction  which  was 
planned  to  start  the  following  November  the  members  of  the 
College  established  rules  and  regulations  for  the  conduct  of  the 
business  on  the  part  of  the  members  of  the  College,  which  later 
developed  into  the  earliest  code  of  pharmaceutical  ethics  established 
in  America. 
It  is  interesting  to  observe  from  newspaper  advertisements 
published  shortly  before  the  course  of  lectures  started  how  ex- 
plicitly all  of  the  details  are  discussed  and  how  frankly  the  reasons 
for  founding  the  College  are  stated.  « 
From  Poulson's  American  Daily  Advertiser,  Monday,  October 
29,  1 82 1 : 
"College  of  Apothecaries. 
''In  the  division  of  the  sciences  that  characterizes  the  philosophy  of  the 
present  age.  and  which  has  so  much  tended  to  their  improvement,  Pharmacy 
has  been  withdrawn  from  the  charge  of  the  Physician,  and  consigned  to  the 
care  of  the  Apothecary.  In  Europe,  this  division  has  long  been  recognized 
and  sanctioned  by  the  Medical  Profession.  Colleges  of  Apothecaries,  and 
other  similar  institutions,  have  been  established,  devoted  expressly  to  instruc- 
