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tion  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  administration,  who  has  not 
passed  through  a  course  of  instruction,  and  become  practically  acquainted 
with  the  business.  In  Great  Britain,  most  Apothecaries  are  regularly  in- 
structed, 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  guared  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  indispensable,  in  order  to  capac- 
itate an  Apothecary  for  pursuing  his  profession,  while  very  few  practition- 
ers of  Medicine  possessed  more  than  a  superficial  acquaintance  with  the 
principles  and  details  of  Pharmaceutic  knowledge.  From  this  state  of 
things,  many  evils,  some  of  a  serious  and  aggravated  nature,  have  flowed, 
urgently  requiring  correction. 
"Alany  Apothecaries  of  this  city,  have  long  been  sensible  of  the  neces- 
sity of  taking  some  efficient  measures,  by  which  the  irregularities  and  abuses 
that  have  crept  into  their  business,  should  be  abolished;  and  that  their  pro- 
fession 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  Apothecaries. 
"This  institution  has  already  established  many  wholesome  regulations 
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  in- 
struction, under  its  auspices,  in  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  and  Pharma- 
ceutic 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  subjects  of  high  importance  and 
utility  to  the  Medical  Profession,  and  the  public  generally,  and  so  well  cal- 
culated to  perfect  those  objects,  cannot  fail  to  meet  the  approbation  and 
support  of  the  liberal  and  well-informed  practitioner,  and  every  member  of 
society. 
"The  College  announces,  that  the  Courses  of  Lectures  will  commence 
in  the  first  week  in  November,  and  will  be  delivered  three  times  a  week,  in 
the  evening,  during  the  winter,  in  the  Hall  of  the  German  Society,  South 
Seventh  Street. 
"Lectures  on  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  by  Dr.  Samuel  Jackson. 
"Lectures  on  Pharmaceutic  Chemistry,  by  Dr.  Gerard  Troost. 
"By  order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
"Peter  Williamson, 
"Secretary." 
From  Poulson's  Daily  Advertiser,  Tuesday  morning,  November 
6,  1821: 
