 The "PJ" is considered to be "among the oldest professional journals in the world".It first appeared in July 1841 as a monthly journal called "Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings", produced by Jacob Bell, who was one of the founders of the (Royal) Pharmaceutical Society.The title of the journal changed to "Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions" in 1842 and "within a year it had all the features of an orthodox professional journal