American journal of pharmacy . of the documentspertaining to American pharmaceutical history Edward Kremers {Bulletin ofPharmacy, June, 1904) says: In such a bibliography catalogues of manufac-turers and jobbers will and should occupy a conspicuous place. Each existingmanufacturing and jobbing firm should regard it a matter of pride to collect acomplete set of its own catalogues, price-lists, and even leaflets, if possible, andpresent them to the American Pharmaceutical Association. The sooner this isdone the better. Americas First Cutter.—M. I. Wilbert {Ibid.) gives a sketch of T. , wh
American journal of pharmacy . of the documentspertaining to American pharmaceutical history Edward Kremers {Bulletin ofPharmacy, June, 1904) says: In such a bibliography catalogues of manufac-turers and jobbers will and should occupy a conspicuous place. Each existingmanufacturing and jobbing firm should regard it a matter of pride to collect acomplete set of its own catalogues, price-lists, and even leaflets, if possible, andpresent them to the American Pharmaceutical Association. The sooner this isdone the better. Americas First Cutter.—M. I. Wilbert {Ibid.) gives a sketch of T. , who, during the earh part of the nineteenth century, conducted whatwas probably the first cut-rate drug store in this country, his establishmentbeing at Second and Race Streets, iu Philadelphia. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.—Prof. Wilbur L. Scoville hasresigned the professorship of pharmacy in this institution, and has accepted aposition with a large Boston drug firm. Prof. E. H. La Pierre has been chosenhis DR. BENJAMIN RUSH(1745-1813). From The History of Medicine in the United States,by Francis R. Packard, THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY AUGUST, 1904. SOME EARLY TEACHERS OF CHEMISTRY IN AMERICA. By M. I. WiLBERT,Apothecary at the Germau Hospital, Philadelphia. The science of chemistry, as we know it, may be said to have hadits inception in the work of Johann Joachim Becher, who publishedseveral books relatmg to chemistry some time after the middle ofthe seventeenth century. Bechers ideas, however, were so radicallydifferent from those held by the then dominating sect of iatro-chemists that it was not until several decades later that they werefinally adopted, in a modified form, by Georg Ernst Stahl as thebasis of his theory of phlogiston. According to this theory it wassupposed that a substance, which Stahl called phlogiston, formed apart of all combustible bodies and that its separation constituted fire. This theory, although soon found to be untena
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