THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
FEBRUARY,  i9o9 
THE  EDUCATIONAL  ADVANCEMENT  OF  THE  PHARMA- 
CIST AND  HIS  RELATION  TO  THE  PHY- 
SICIAN AND  PUBLIC^* 
By  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  M.D. 
I  consider  it  a  great  honor  to  be  here  to-night  at  your  invitation 
to  give  one  of  the  addresses  in  the  courses  which  have  been  adver- 
tised for  evening  lectures  before  this  college. 
I  first  must  be  allowed  to  say  that  I  am  more  than  pleased  with  the 
inspection  of  the  laboratories  of  this  great  college  of  pharmacy,  and 
to  see  what  splendid  facilities  in  all  branches  of  laboratory  work  its 
students  have.  In  this  connection  I  desire  to  emphasize  the  fact 
that  the  old  days  of  the  ordinary  druggist  have  passed.  When  I 
was  a  boy  any  man  who  had  the  money  or  credit  could  start  a  drug 
store  and  make  and  dispense  drugs.  It  was  not  necessary  that  he 
should  even  get  a  common  school  education,  although,  of  course, 
it  was  necessary  to  his  success  that  he  be  a  good  business  man,  and 
that  naturally  would  imply  that  he  must  of  necessity  soon  acquire 
knowledge,  and  a  particular  knowledge  of  his  profession.  This 
now  has  been  changed  in  practically  all  parts  of  the  country.  Col- 
leges of  pharmacy  exisf  in  almost  every  state  and  rigid  rules  and 
certification  for  the  practice  of  pharmacy  are  established  in  all  of 
*  Abstract  of  a  lecture  delivered  by  Dr.  H.  W.  Wiley,  chief  of  the  U.  S. 
Bureau  of  Chemistry,  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  December  17, 
1908,  this  being  the  first  of  the  series  of  special  lectures  arranged  for  the 
Food  and  Drug  Analysis  Course  for  1908-1909. 
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