Repository: UIHistories Project: Course Catalog - 1895-1896 [PAGE 127]

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THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

The Chicago College of Pharmacy, which was formally united with the University May 1, 1896, will henceforth be conducted as the technical School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois. Organized in 1859 as the Chicago College of Pharmacy, this was the first institution for pharmaceutical education established west of the Alleghanies, and the third in the United States. The war caused for a time the discontinuance of instruction, and shortly after the resumption of its activities the great fire swept it out of existence, so that the present establishment dates from 1872. Noted European savants moved with sympathy for the sufferers by the great conflagration, and actuated by interest in the cause of pharmaceutical education, presented the trustees of the institution a valuable outfit of apparatus, specimens and library, and it is from this nucleus that the school equipment has grown to its present excellent proportions. In the diploma awarded to this school by the World's Fair Commissioners July 14, 1893, the Library is referred to as "a collection of rare and very valuable books, printed in the 10th, 17th and 18th centuries, including the works of Galen, published in Venice in 1556, and the entire volumes of the Edinburgh Dispensatory." The School is situated near the business center of Chicago, at numbers 465 and 467 State Street, and occupies a building which was erected especially for its use. The lecture amphitheater, Attfield Hall, has seats for six hundred ; the chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories, as also the microscopical laboratory and the dispensing laboratory, are commodious and well appointed. The (U)urses qf Instruction, covering two terms of twentyfive weeks each, extending from October 2, to April 23, afford opportunities for a thorough technical training, such as [127]