612     High-Lights  in  History  of  Phila.  C.  of  Phar.     j  Amsep°tu,r'i92iarm' 
1906,  it  became  apparent  that  skilled  food  and  drug  technicians 
would  be  necessary  to  ensure  the  proper  enforcement  of  the  law,  and 
in  1907  the  College  secured,  largely  through  the  personal  solicitations 
of  the  late  Mahlon  N.  Kline  and  Joseph  P.  Remington,  contributions 
of  some  thousands  of  dollars  with  which  it  was  enabled  to  erect  a 
food  and  drug  laboratory  building  and  inaugurate  a  course  in  food 
and  drug  analysis. 
Equal  in  importance  to  pharmaceutical  education  is  pharmaceu- 
tical research,  because  pharmaceutical  practice  is,  in  effect,  applied 
education,  and  education  is  applied  research ;  and  upon  the  bases  of 
research,  education  and  practice  rest  the  science  and  art  of  phar- 
macy. 
Our  Quaker  forbears  recognized  the  vital  importance  of  sys- 
tematized research  and  in  1821-29  published  irregularly  a  journal 
devoted  to  research  under  the  name  of  the  Journal  of  the  Philadel- 
phia College  of  Pharmacy.  Beginning  with  April,  1829,  the  Journal 
was  issued  at  regular  stated  periods,  and  in  April,  1835,  the  title 
was  changed  to  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy.  It  is  not 
only  the  earliest  periodical  of  its  kind  in  the  world,  but  it  is  recog- 
nized, at  home  and  abroad,  as  the  leading  scientific  pharmaceutical 
periodical  of  this  country. 
During  the  past  century,  the  Journal  has  published  50,000 
reading  pages,  the  larger  part  of  which  has  been  research  work  in 
pharmacy,  chemistry,  pharmacognosy  and  science,  (Note,  please,  the 
significance  of  the  initials  of  these — P.  C.  P.  and  S.l)  by  the 
faculty  and  members  and  contributors  to  the  Journal.  Thus,  John 
Farr,  of  Farr  and  Kunzi  (later  Powers  and  Weightman),  in  a  paper 
read  before  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  of  which  he  was 
a  member,  at  a  meeting  held  December  27,  1825,  on  the  subject  of 
"Extract  of  Quinine"  (Proceedings  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy — later  the  American  Journal  of  Pharmacy,  Vol.  1,  No. 
2,  43),  made  the  following  statement:  "In  the  summer  and  autumn 
of  1823,  a  season  peculiarly  memorable  to  Philadelphians  by  reason 
of  the  alarming  prevalence  of  intermittent  and  other  fevers,  sulphate 
of  quinine  was  first  successfully  prepared  here,"  three  years  after 
its  discovery  by  Pelletier  and  Coventou ;  and  it  should  be  stated,  also, 
that  Zeitler  and  Rosengarten  (predecessors  of  Rosengarten  and 
Sons),  likewise  made  quinine  sulphate  in  1823,  their  first  sale  being 
in  December  of  that  year.    And  it  may  be  added,  that  "morphine 
