. American journal of pharmacy. ing of medicines. He con-sistently advocated the dissociation of surgery and pharmacy fromthe practice of medicine proper, and in this initial address argued: The medical department of the University of Pennsylvania was estab-lished in 1779. and in 1791 these two medical schools, hy act of the Legis-lature, were united under the University of Pennsylvania. This action was an attempt to reform the practice of medicine as car-ried on in Great Britain in accordance with the law enacted in 1511, by whichthe right to practice medicine in England was vested in the fac
. American journal of pharmacy. ing of medicines. He con-sistently advocated the dissociation of surgery and pharmacy fromthe practice of medicine proper, and in this initial address argued: The medical department of the University of Pennsylvania was estab-lished in 1779. and in 1791 these two medical schools, hy act of the Legis-lature, were united under the University of Pennsylvania. This action was an attempt to reform the practice of medicine as car-ried on in Great Britain in accordance with the law enacted in 1511, by whichthe right to practice medicine in England was vested in the faculty of med-icine, who were privileged to practice medicine, surgery and apprentices and assistants of the medical practitioners were termedApothecaries. Their functions were the dressing of wounds, extracting ofteeth, bleeding and preparing the medicines and compounding the prescrip-tions of their preceptors. In the American Colonies, this custom of the Eng- 8o Centenary of Fliannacciitical Education. j^p^bSaryfwT. DR. JOHN MORGAN lish practitioners had been followed and continued until the initiation of thedissociation movement advocated by Dr.^ Morgan. We must regret that thevery diflferent employment ofphysician, surgeon and apothecaryshould be promiscuously followedby any one man. They certainlyrequire very different talents. The business of pharmacy isessentially different from either,free from the cares of both, theapothecary is to prepare and com-pound medicines as the physicianshall direct. Altogether engagedin this, by length of time he at-tains to that skill therein which hecould never have arrived at were|his attention distracted by a greatvariety of other subjects. The wisdom of ages ap-proved by experience, the most cer-tain test of knowledge, has taughtus the necessity and utility of ap-pointing dififerent persons forthese different employments, and accordingly we find them prosecuted sepa-rately in every wise and polished country. The paying of a ph
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