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IHE ALbMNI JOURNAL. 



With the coming session the Trustees of the 

 C. P. C. N. Y. inaugurate a material change in 

 pharmaceutical teaching, which will prove of 

 nestimable value to the students. 



The prospectus of the College calls the atten- 

 tion of those interested, to the new dispensing 

 department; giving in a general way, an out- 

 line of the subjects to be taught therein, and 

 the advantages to be derived therefrom. The 

 department will be under the general supervis- 

 ion of Prof. Geo. C. Diekman assisted by \Vm. 

 A. Hoburg, Jr., Ph. G. 



A more detailed description of the depart- 

 ment, than that published in the annual an- 

 nouncement, and a 

 more concise state- 

 ment regarding its 

 aims and purposes 

 may prove interest- 

 ing to the readers of 

 the Alumni Jour- 

 nal. 



The department is 

 located on the first 

 floor of the College 

 building, and occu- 

 pies in its entirety 

 the commodious 

 room situated imme- 

 diately behind the 

 library and ofiSces. 



The dimensions of 

 the room occupied bv the department, (see il- 

 lustration from a photograph by Mr. O. J. 

 Griffin,) are 52x38 feet, allowing ample room 

 for the necessary desks and fixtures. 



There are fourteen main sections, seven on 

 each side of the room, with ample space for 

 passage ways between and around them. Each 

 main section is double, and can accommodate 

 four students on either side — eight in all, work- 

 ing simultaneously. This arrangement makes 

 it possible for 112 students to work and receive 

 instruction at the same time, without in any 

 way interfering with one another. Each stu- 

 dent has a working space of 3x2 feet, allowing 

 ample room for the proper use of apparatus, 

 such as will be required in the various manipu- 

 lations. Each working space, again, is supplied 

 with three drawers and three closets, in each of 

 which a complete outfit of apparatus is stowed 

 away. This arrangement enables 336 students 

 to receive instruction and carry on the required 



operations without in any case employing a fel- 

 low student's apparatus. 



Each desk is provided with about 75 bottles 

 of appropriate size, containing chemicals and 

 pharmaceutical preparations, such as are best 

 adapted to the uses of the department. These 

 will be added to from time to time as occasion 

 demands. 



Two movable slides are attached to each 

 desk, one replacing the customary filter-stand, 

 the other being used for various purposes. Hot 

 and cold water have been supplied, and ample 

 provision for lighting has been made, so that 

 each desk represents a model dispensing coun- 

 ter, with balances, graduated measures, mortars, 

 spatulas, labels, bottles, pill boxes, etc. 



For purposes of instruction, the classes will 



be divided in as 

 many sections as is 

 found practical, on- 

 ly one section receiv- 

 ing instruction at 

 any one time. 



The instruction of- 

 fered by the new 

 department is in- 

 tended for both the 

 Junior and Senior 

 classes, and will 

 embody such sub- 

 jects as pharmaceu- 

 tical manipulations 

 in general; the cor- 

 rect use of the differ- 

 ent apparatus and 

 utensils, prescription incompatibles, and such 

 other subjects as are required to complete the 

 practical education of the modern pharmacist. 

 It is not intended that the instruction obtain- 

 ed arid the experience derived from this depart- 

 ment, shall in any sense of the term supplant 

 that which the student obtains in the drug 

 store. It is rather intended as an adjunct to 

 such practical experience as may be derived 

 from the latter source. Its entire aim and pur- 

 pose is to give students practical instruction in 

 Dispensing Pharmacy, such instruction as it 

 has been hitherto unable to offer, with the re- 

 sources at the command of the teachers. 



Particular attention will be given to the sub- 

 ject of chemical and pharmaceutical incompati- 

 bles. Prescriptions embracing such, as well as 

 prescriptions containing an overdose of some 

 ingredient, or such as are illegibly or ambigu- 

 ously written, will be given to the students to 

 compound. Many of these will be prescriptions 



