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AMERICAN PHARMACY BUILDS ITS FOUNDATIONS
| Faced with two major threats; deterioration of the practice of pharmacy,
and a discriminatory classification by the University of Pennsylvania medical
faculty, the pharmacists of Philadelphia held a tempestuous protest meeting
in Carpenters' Hall, February 23, 1821. At a second meeting, March 13,
the pharmacists voted formation of: an association, which became The Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy; a school of pharmacy; and a self-policing board. Sixty-eight
pharmacists signed the Constitution of the first pharmaceutical association
in the United States; American Pharmacy's first educational institution,
bearing the same name, opened November 9. |
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