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PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
EDITED BY BENJAMIN W. McCREADY, M. D. PROFESSOR OF MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY IN THE COLLEGE OF PHARMACY,
ASSISTED BY A PUBLISHING COMMITTEE, CONSISTING OF JOHN H. CURRIE, THOMAS B. MERRICK, EUGENE DUPUY, WM. HEGEMAN, GEORGE D. COGGESHALL.
NEW YORK: JOSEPH W. HARRISON, PRINTER, NO. 197 CENTRE, NEAR CANAL STREET.
The College of Pharmacy was founded with a view to the elevation of the professional standing and scientific attainments of Apothecaries, as well as to guard their material interests by raising a barrier against ignorance and imposture. What they have accomplished and how far they have been successful it does not become the Board of Trustees to state; if the results have not, in all respects, been what might be desired, it has not arisen from want of earnest effort and honest intention on their part. As a further means of benefiting their profession, of keeping its members acquainted with the progress it is making at home and abroad, and of inspiring among them a spirit of scientific inquiry, they believe that the establishment of a Journal, devoted to the pursuits and the interests of Apothecaries, would be of the highest utility.
By far the wealthiest and most populous city in the Union, New York, with its environs, contains several hundred Apothecaries, among whom are many of great experience and eminent ability; it contains numerous Laboratories where chemicals are manufactured on a large scale, and where the appliances and refinements of modern science are compelled into the service of commerce; it contains within itself all the means of scientific progress, and yet these means lie, for the most part, waste and idle; the observations that are made and the processes that are invented profit only the observer and the inventor. Both they and their consequences—for even apparently trivial observations may contain in themselves the germ of important discoveries, and no man can tell what fruit they may produce in the minds of others—are lost to the world.