CODE   OF  ETHICS. 
The  Pharmaceutical  profession  being  one  which  demands 
knowledge,  skill  and  integrity  on  the  part  of  those  engaged  in 
it,  and  being  associated  with  the  medical  profession  in  the  respon- 
sible duties  of  preserving  the  public  health,  and  dispensing  the 
useful  though  often  dangerous  agents  adapted  to  the  cure  of  dis- 
ease, its  members  should  be  united  on  some  general  principles  to 
be  observed  in  their  several  relations  to  each  other,  to  the  medi- 
cal profession,  and  to  the  public. 
The  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  being  a  permanent, 
incorporated  institution,  embracing  among  its  members  a  large 
number  of  respectable  and  well  educated  apothecaries,  has  erected 
a  standard  of  scientific  attainments,  which  there  is  a  growing 
disposition  on  the  part  of  candidates  for  the  profession  to  reach ; 
and  being  desirous  that,  in  relation  to  professional  conduct  and 
probity,  there  should  be  a  corresponding  disposition  to  advance, 
its  members  have  agreed  upon  the  following  principles  for  the 
government  of  their  conduct : 
1st.  The  College  of  Physicians  of  Philadelphia  having  de- 
clared that  any  connection  with,  or  monied  interest  in,  apothe- 
caries' stores,  on  the  part  of  physicians,  should  be  discounte- 
nanced ;  we  in  like  manner  consider  an  apothecary  being  en- 
gaged in  furthering  the  interests  of  any  particular  physician,  to 
the  prejudice  of  other  reputable  members  of  the  medical  profes- 
sion, or  allowing  any  physician  a  percentage  or  commission  on 
his  prescriptions,  as  unjust  toward  that  profession  and  injurious 
to  the  public. 
2d.  As  the  diagnosis  and  treatment  of  disease  belong  to  the 
province  of  a  distinct  profession,  and  as  a  pharmaceutical  edu- 
