192 EDITORIAL. 
" good enough for the ignorant," and those who acknowledge the grocer 
and general dealer as their pharmaceutists, whether in east or west, 
north or south, will, to a large extent, become the willing consumers 
of trashy and deteriorated medicines. 
We earnestly hope that every pharmaceutist, who feels the least 
interest in the advancement of his profession, will so far contribute to 
the general good, as to watch the drug-market closely, and expose 
every attempt at fraud that may come under his notice. We shall 
willingly second the endeavours of such, by opening our pages to their 
communications, for we believe much good may be done in this indi- 
vidual way. 
The Code of Ethics of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, was 
communicated to the American Medical Association, which met in 
May last, by one of the Committee having charge of its distribution, 
and it affords us pleasure to state, that it was inserted entire in the 
first volume of their Transactions for the year 1848. 
We omitted, in our last number, to acknowledge the receipt, via 
express, of a specimen of purified cod-liver oil from Mr. Emery 
Souther, of Boston, which we now do. In comparing this oil with 
that of a similar character then in the market, we find it fully equal 
in appearance and freedom from fishy odour; but more recent im- 
portations into our market have possessed sensible qualities less cal- 
culated to offend the taste of the patient. We hope that the advantages 
possessed by the Bostonian Pharmaceutists in procuring the recent 
livers of the cod, will induce them to resort to every means afforded 
by the most enlightened manipulation to extract this oil as free from 
nauseous properties as possible. The fishy odour is acquired by the 
most carefully prepared oil, by exposure to the air and heat* and it is 
presumable that the quicker the process, the more gentle the heat 
used, and the more completely the oil is excluded from the air after 
preparation, the better and milder will be the product obtained. The 
reader is referred to an interesting article by Dr. Pereria on cod liver 
oil in this number. - 
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We have to acknowledge the receipt, from Mr. Campbell Morfit, 
author of " Chemical and Pharmaceutic Manipulations," of a copy of 
his sheet of labels for "the test series." We are informed that the 
ink used in printing these labels, is not liable to be effected by acid 
vapours in the laboratory; if as much could be said for the paper upon 
which the ink is laid, the chemist would have additional cause to 
thank Mr. Morfit for this contribution to the fittings of his laboratory. 
