American journal of pharmacy . themost populous and the most progressive city in the country. Itwas also considered the centre of medical as well as scientific knowl-edge, and attracted students from all sections of the United excellent descriptive picture of Philadelphia, at the beginning ofthe nineteenth century, may be found in the memoirs of BenjaminSilliman, who, after his election as professor of chemistry at Yale,came to Philadelphia to absorb the rudiments of that science fromDr. Woodhouse. Yxova tiiese memoirs it would appear that the ?6o Teachers of Chemistry hi Ajnerica. r
American journal of pharmacy . themost populous and the most progressive city in the country. Itwas also considered the centre of medical as well as scientific knowl-edge, and attracted students from all sections of the United excellent descriptive picture of Philadelphia, at the beginning ofthe nineteenth century, may be found in the memoirs of BenjaminSilliman, who, after his election as professor of chemistry at Yale,came to Philadelphia to absorb the rudiments of that science fromDr. Woodhouse. Yxova tiiese memoirs it would appear that the ?6o Teachers of Chemistry hi Ajnerica. r Am. Jour. Pbaroi I August, 1904. lectures on chemistry, freely illustrated by actual experiments, weregiven in connection with the regular course of medical instructionin the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Thisdepartment occupied a small building on South Fifth Street, oppositethe State House yard, that was variously known as Surgeons Hall,Anatomical Hall, or The Laboratory. It was in this same building. THE LABORATORY AND MEDICAL SCHOOL (1765-1S07). From The History of Medicine in the United States, by FrancisR. Packard, that the first chemical society held its Aveekly meetings, and it wasprobably in the chemical laboratory, situated on the first floor, thatSeybert, Hare, Woodhouse, Bryant and others of the more activemembers, made their analyses of and experiments with indigenousminerals. This early chemical society was under the patronage of Drs. Sey-bert and Woodhouse, and included among its list of active members ^AuKuJt.^im} Teachers of Chemistry in America. 361 such eminent medical practitioners as Dr. Benjamin Rush, John and John C. Otto. At least one of the then existing apoth-ecaries, John Y. Bryant, was an active member of the society. served the society as treasurer and also as a member ofthe Analyzing Committee. Prominent among the younger mem-bers of this society was Robert Hare, the inventor of the oxy-hydrogen blow
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