/ The Health of / Soldiers / Recommended to / The Consideration of the / Officers / Of the Army of the United / States" / By Benjamin Rush, M. D. / PubIished by Order of the Board / of War / Lancaster : Printed by John Dunlap / In Queen Street." �the columns of the Pennsylvania Packet. In the issue of

those days down through the years to the Civil War period, the missionary-preachers of the Protestant denominations were familiar figures on the roads of Lan- caster County. Filled with stories of discomforts and long fatiguing horse- back journeys as well as spirit-stirring experiences, the biographies

only one camp meeting in Lancaster County, but one which, it seems to us, must have been the most outstanding of such meetings in this region. It was the National Methodist Camp Meeting held at Manheim in 1868. Religious camp meetings in the United States had their beginning in Kentucky where the first

- portant in the history of pharmacy in the United States, for it has to do with our first pharmacopoeia. The early apothecaries of American naturally had only pharmacopoeias of the European countries to rely upon for formulae, and some apothecaries, spurning even these, used their own, so that there was no