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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY [For Faculty of School of Pharmacy, see p. 18.] HISTORY The Chicago College of Pharmacy is a corporation which was founded by prominent pharmacists of Chicago and vicinity in 1859 for the purpose of advancing the practice of pharmacy. One of the first steps taken Was the establishment of a school of pharmacy. At that time there was no school of the kind west of the Alleghany Mountains. Members and friends contributed money, books, apparatus, and supplies; teachers were secured and a course of lectures was instituted in November, 1859. The first class, of but two students, was graduated in 1861. The war caused a suspension of the teaching, and the school was not reopened until 1870. The great fire, in 1871, destroyed the equipment, but pharmacists throughout Europe and America extended help to the institution, furnishing an excellent library and outfit of apparatus, which became the nucleus of the present complete equipment. In 1872 the instruction was resumed for the second time and has since continued without interruption. "The Pharmacist," a monthly journal published by the College, from 1866 until 1886, did much to advance the interests of pharmacy in the West. In 1880 the members and graduates of the College took an active part in the formation of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, which, in the following year, secured the passage of the pharmacy law. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the College was signalized by the completion and occupation of a (154)
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