text: William Procter, Jr., who graduated from, then taught at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy for 20 years, went on to exert so much influence over the formative years of professional pharmacy that hes now widely considered the "Father of American Pharmacy."  Procter successfully argued for the establishment of a chair of Pharmacy for pharmacist-professors at the PCP in 1844, then wrote "the first American pharmacy textbook," which came to be known as Mohr, Redwood, and Procters Practical Pharmacy (1849).  The book was not commercially successful, but became a model for subsequent "works of long-lived popularity: Edward Parrishs An Introduction to Practical Pharmacy (1855-1884), and Joseph P. Remingtons Practice of Pharmacy (1888-1995 [19th ed.])".  Procter also led the American Journal of Pharmacy for 22 years, served 30 years on the U.S.P. Revision Committee, where he did much to improve the U.S. Pharmacopeia, and following five years as the American Pharmaceutical Associations corresponding secretary, he became the APhAs president, leading delegations of American pharmacists in conferences with their counterparts offshore.  At the Second International Congress of Pharmacy in Paris, France, August 21 to 24, 1867, Procter argued forcefully against the "compulsory limitation of pharmacies" (capping their number in a given city or province) under consideration, telling the assembled delegates that, in the U.S., "there is not the slightest obstacle toward a multiplication of drug stores save that a lack of success" and that the American public is "a forceful agent of reform" to keep unscrupulous operators in check.  Procter's declaration was later seen as a defining statement of "the American Way of Pharmacy."