NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY,Volume 1 (1852)
NEW YORKJOURNAL OF PHARMACY.JANUARY, 1852.
TO OUR READERS.
The College of Pharmacy was founded with a view to the elevationof the professional standing and scientific attainments of Apothecaries,as well as to guard their material interests by raising a barrier againstignorance and imposture. What they have accomplished and how far theyhave been successful it does not become the Board of Trustees to state; ifthe results have not, in all respects, been what might be desired, it has notarisen from want of earnest effort and honest intention on their part. Asa further means of benefiting their profession, of keeping its membersacquainted with the progress it is making at home and abroad, and ofinspiring among them a spirit of scientific inquiry, they believe that theestablishment of a Journal, devoted to the pursuits and the interests ofApothecaries, 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 aremany of great experience and eminent ability; it contains numerous Laboratorieswhere chemicals are manufactured on a large scale, and where theappliances and refinements of modern science are compelled into theservice of commerce; it contains within itself all the means of scientificprogress, and yet these means lie, for the most part, waste and idle; theobservations that are made and the processes that are invented profit onlythe observer and the inventor. Both they and their consequences—foreven apparently trivial observations may contain in themselves the germof important discoveries, and no man can tell what fruit they may producein the minds of others—are lost to the world.
New York is the commercial centre of the Union, the point to whichour products are brought for exportation, and fromwhich various goods, {2}obtained from abroad, are distributed to the remainder of the UnitedStates. It is the chief drug mart of the Union; the source from whichthe largest part of our country draws its supplies of all medicines thatare not the products of their own immediate vicinities. It is thus connectedmore intimately with the Druggists of a large portion of our countrythan any other city; many visit it annually or o