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COLLEGE OP DENTISTRY

student for the largest possible service, both to t h e science and a r t of dentistry, and t o society a t large." The College of Dentistry charter and equipment had in 1912 been sold to t h e Chicago College of Dental Surgery. T h e College therefore started out anew in 1913 on an entirely new lease of life as an organic part of the University of Illinois. . : T h e history of t h e College for the last few years is full of promise for the future. Our College has steadily grown, in a period when decreased enrollments in schools of medicine and dentistry have been expected. The registration of 163 in 1906 rose to 196 in 1920, and to 200 in 1921. At the present writing (Jan. 21, 1922) the College has 763 living alumni and 42 dead. Faculty members, both past and present, exclusive of those who hold degrees from the College and are therefore counted with the alumni, number 72 living and 6 dead. Entrance requirements have been raised. Fifteen units of work from an accredited high school plus 30 semester hours of university work with a minimum of six hours in English, six in Chemistry and six in Physics and Biology, are now required. This marks the most distinct advance yet recorded in dental education. Dean Moorehead, who has headed the College since its reorganization, graduated from the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1899, from the University of Chicago in 1900, Rush Medical College, 1906, and the University of Michigan, 1908. H e joined the faculty of Rush Medical College in 1906, and of our College of Dentistry in 1908. His writings on dental subjects have been extensive, and he was president of the Chiago D e n t a l Society in 1915-16.

III-THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

BY DEAN W. B. DAY I'linr to 1852 there existed only a few scattered associations of apothecaries and v •«. • 11- •• IM!.H in this country. Among these organizations were the colleges of pharmacy of I ini ulrlphui, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts and Cincinnati. Only the first 1 »'»«« of these exercised teaching functions. In 1852, the American Pharmaceutical 1 ••< i.-U.ion was formed, with the primary object of " t h e advancement of pharma• • HI i- :i.l knowledge and the elevation of the professional character of apothecaries and •IIH»-,'-IM(,K throughout the United States." In the opinion of the first convention flu cannot be affected without extending the present means of education." \f 11 io sixth annual convention of the American Pharmaceutical Association, four , • i", itfo pharmacists were elected to membership. Two of these members, E . O. Gale •>'•• 1 I i mes D. Paine, were among those who led the movement to form a college of phar» •••••• in Chicago, at t h a t time a city of nearly 80,000 and already an important com• «• •• i i.l c e n t e r .

< »u February 26,1859,articles of incorporation for an organization of persons "desiring *•- i.iociate themselves together for scientific purposes and mutual improvement" «> i • i >repared. The objects of the society were declared to be " cultivating, improving -•'<«,I making known a knowledge of pharmacy, its collateral branches of science and the »•• i modes of preparing medicines . . . . and giving instruction in the same by public i.. i in rM." The organization was named *'The Chicago College of Pharmacy." Among • i» ••••'.norsof the articles of incorporation were some of the best known pharmacists of t h e • 1 -, I'Yiinklin Scammon, E . O. Gale, George Buck, Dr. Frederick Mahla, Dr. John H . 1 • « m. Il( James D . Paine, S. S. Bliss, F . A. Bryan, George Breck, Thomas B . Penton, ' I I- llumeston and Thomas W. P. Mercereau. < MI the evening of Sept. 5 a meeting of " t h e druggists of the city of Chicago" was »••!«! i.l. the rooms of Bryant, Bell & Stratton's Commercial College. Dr. Franklin •••iimmoii was made chairman and J. M. Woodworth secretary. The act of incorpora»"'ii wan read and approved and the Chicago College of Pharmacy came into being. mil.. en were elected and steps taken toward the establishment of a school of pharmacy. '""Hi thereafter a constitution, by-laws and code of ethics were adopted. In the • •"!« • »f ethics, the use of the national pharmacopoeia is required, secrecy in the prepara• i"11 • «r medicines is deprecated and the practice of both pharmacy and medicine by the •••mi. poison is condemned as "involving pecuniary temptations incompatible with a HMifcious discharge of d u t y . " Pharmacist are also censuredior allowing commis**•«•••- U physicians on their prescriptions, as " w e hold it to be unjust to the public and > inn11nl to the independence of both parties." Pharmacists are urged to prepare their «».11. inos carefully and from pure materials and to expose fraud or adulteration in >!• in- , and further, " A s we owe a debt of gratitude to our predecessors for their obser^ • ••iimiM and researches which have thus far advanced our scientific art, we hold t h a t »•« • i; apothecary and druggist is bound to contribute his mite toward the advancement "» In • profession, by noticing and publishing the new ideas and phenomena which may "••in in the course of his business." 'i"iio by-laws provided for a committee of reference to decide in cases of dispute I" iv\- m members arising from business transactions or from violations of the code of *"ii' , also for a committee of inspection to examine all drugs and medicines sub»MIM. .1 to them and to report their findings. Members were not permitted to receive «•• "i 'prentice for less t h a n four years and it was obligatory that such apprentices attend »»*•• * 'inrses of lectures in the college. ! IK- officers elected for the first year were: Dr. Franklin Scammon, president; F . A r.ivmi, first vice-president; Dr. Frederick Mahla, second vice-president; James D . I'.nii' . secretary-and S. S. Bliss, treasurer. The trustees consisted in addition to t h e ««••• • of E. L. O'Hara, W . H . Muller, Edwin O. Gale, George Buck and L. F . Humeston. I'»**I Mirations for teaching were made at once. A faculty was appointed consisting ••i I 'i. James V. Z. Blaney, then professor of chemistry a t Northwestern University »H..I .(, Rush Medical College; Dr. John H. Rauch, afterwards secretary of the State M'-i-I of Health, and Dr. Franklin Scammon, a pioneer druggist and botanist. T h e ft-1* • I. was evidently in advance of the city and the times. I t wag conceded t h a t t h e

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