PROFESSOR CHANDLER'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. 

 Reminiscences of Forty-four Years' Service in the Faculty. 



At the annual meeting of the College of Pharmacy of the City 

 of New York held on Tuesday evening, March 15, Professor Chand- 

 ler made a farewell address to the members of the college, this be- 

 ing the last occasion on which he would appear before the members 

 as a member of the faculty, though his duties in the faculty would 

 continue until the close of the present term in June. 



His address was wholly informal consisting of scattered reminis- 

 cences. He opened his remarks with a reference to the antiquity 

 of pharmacy and to the prominent part that pharmacy had played 

 in the development of chemistry in the middle ages. He mentioned 

 by name many distinguished pharmacists or apothecaries and al- 

 chemists of that era on whose work the science of chemistry is 

 based. The list included Basil Valentine, the discoverer of anti- 

 mony, Paracelsus, who first made medicinal use of mercury, Van 

 Helmont, who first used the preparations of opium in medicine, and 

 to later chemists who began life as apothecaries, including Sir 

 Humphrey Davy, Liebig, and Dumas. He said that he was proud 

 to be associated with an institution devoted to the teaching of 

 apothecaries, particularly in view of the debt which chemistry 

 owed to the apothecary. 



The College of Pharmacy. 



Taking up the history of the college he spoke of the lofty aim<5 

 which animated the seventy-two pharmacists who, in 1829. adopted 

 a constitution and by-laws and established an institution for the 

 teaching of pharmacy in New York. He exhibited a copy of the first 

 announcement giving the names of the officers and the first lecturers, 

 Dr. John Torrey, an old friend of his, who lectured on chemistry, 

 and Dr. J. Smith Rogers, who lectured on materia medica and 

 pharmacy. He quoted with approbation the purpose of the in- 

 stitution as set forth in the charter in the following words, that of. 

 "Cultivating, improving and making known a knowledge of phar- 

 macy, the collateral branches of sciences, and the best modes of 

 preparing medicines and their compounds, and of giving instruction 

 in the same by public lectures." He congratulated the members 

 upon having adopted a code of ethics which set up lofty ideals 

 which must be lived up to, to secure recognition by the college 



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