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that have actually been presented at drug stores. 

 This entire subject will be of particular value to 

 members of the senior class. 



All work done by students will be under the di- 

 rect supervision of the Professor in charge, and 

 his assistants. This will insure each student an 

 excellent opportunity to become thoroughly 

 proficient in this direction. 



The department will also be placed at the 

 disposal of the New York City Board of Phar- 

 macy, so that applicants for certificates may be 

 subjected to a thorough, practical examination 

 in addition to the customary theoretical one. 



The Trustees will not as has been erroneously 

 stated in the pharmaceutical press, manufac- 

 ture preparations and offer them for sale, nor is 

 it intended that prescriptions for the general 

 public are to be filled free of charge, nor for any 

 pecuniary consideration. 



Text Books Required by Students of the 

 College of Pharmacy of the City of 

 New York. 



FOR JUNIORS. 



Elliott's Qualitative Analysis $".5° 



Peck's Ganot's i'hysics i 20 



*Coblentz's Handbook of Pharmacy 3-5° 



The Human Body, Martin 2.5° 



HKssenlials of Pharmacognosy, Rusby & Jelliffe. 2.50 



*Art of Dispensing, Scoville 2.50 



*The U. S. Pharmacopoeia, [1890] -^ sheep'Iimil i.oo 



♦Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Sadtler & Trimble, 4.00 

 or Richter's Inorganic Chemistry 1.75 



FOR SENIORS. 



Remsen's Organic Chemistry $1.20 



White, Materia Medica and Therapeutics 2.75 



Maisch, Organic Materia Medica 2.40 



FOR POST-GRADUATES. 



Essentials of Bacteriology, M. V. Ball Jo.So 



Gray's Manual of Botany of the Northern U. S-- 1.60 



Quantitative Analysis, J. H. Appleton. 

 ■►Books marked * are required by both Juniors and 

 Seniors. 



HBooks marked \ are required by Juniors and Post- 

 Graduates. 



Works of reference can be consulted in the library. 



Special text books will be furnished at lowest prices on 

 application to Mr. O. J. Griffin, clerk to the College. 



HISTORY AND NAMES OF RHAMNHS 

 (PURSHIANA CASCARA SAQRADA.)' 



By Prof. J. U. LLOYD. 



Contribution of the Research Committee of the Ameri- 

 can Pharmaceutical Association.! 



In a paper contributed to New Preparations, % 

 October 15, 1877, p. 8, the late Dr. J. H. Bundy, 

 an eclectic physician of Colusa, Cal,, recom- 

 mended cascara sagrada as a valuable remedy 

 in the treatment of constipation. This notice 

 was by means of a brief note that was part of a 



*Read at the meeting ol the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association, Montreal 1S96. 



flntroductory to a contribution on a chemical investi- 

 gation of Rhamnus purshiana, undertaken by Alfred R. 

 L. Dohme. 



XNew Preparations. Detroit : Parke, Davis & Co. 



paper on Berberis aquifolium. Dr. Bundy prom- 

 ising, however, to give it further attention, as 

 follows : 



" It not my purpose to treat on cascara sag- 

 rada in this paper ; but, using it in connection 

 with the Berberis, I simply make mention of it. 

 In the future I will introduce this drug to the 

 profession. 



This, so far as the writer can determine, was 

 the first reference concerning this remedy in 

 pharmaceutical or medical print. Agreeably 

 to promise, in January, 1878,1 Dr. Bundy con- 

 tributed a paper on the subject of cascara 

 sagrada, in which he gave the uses of fluid ex- 

 tract of cascara sagrada. Following this came 

 many papers from Dr. Bundy and other phy- 

 sicians, twenty contributions on the subject 

 being printed in Neiv Preparations, 1878, to 

 which journal, with few exceptions, the subject 

 was confined during 1877 and 1878. Dr. Bundy 

 stated in his paper (1878) that: "A descrip- 

 tion of the cascara I am unable to give at this 

 time ; but sufiSceit to say that it is a shrub, and 

 in due time its botanical name will be known." 

 He neglected, however, to concern himself 

 further in the matter. 



In the fall of 1878, Dr. C. H. Adair, of 

 Colusa, Cal., a partner of Dr. Bundy. sent the 

 writer specimens of the bark and botanical 

 specimens of the tree yielding it. These, on iden- 

 tification by Mr. Curtis G. Lloyd, proved to be 

 Rhamnus purshiana. This fact was announced 

 in a paper on "Some Specimens of Western 

 Plants," presented at a meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Pharmaceutical Association held in At- 

 lanta, Ga., November, 1878 {Proceedings, 1879, 

 p. 707), and completed the drug's history. 



Names.— \ir. Bundy supplied the drug under 

 the Spanish name, cascara sagrada, which name 

 is said to have been in local use throughout 

 some sections of California, and soon came to 

 be the common name of the drug. It will 

 surely dominate all others as long as the drug is 

 in use. The Anglicized name sacred bark, has 

 also been applied to the drug, and the Scriptural 

 term. Chittini bark, was also employed in early 

 days in some parts ot California ; but these last 

 names are now obsolete. 



Summary.— To Dr. J. H. Bundy, Colusa, Cal., 

 1877, is due the credit of introducing the bark 

 of Rhamnus purshiana (cascara sagrada) to the 

 medical profession. 



To New Preparations, Parke, Davis & Co., 

 Detroit, Mich. (1877 and 1878), is due the credit 

 of bringing the drug to the attention of physi- 

 cians and pharmacists. 



To Parke, Davis & Co., of Detroit, Mich. 

 (187S), is due the credit of making the first 

 pharmaceutical preparation (the fluid extract), 

 and of bringing this preparation into general 

 conspicuity through their advertisements and 

 business connections. It may be said, without 

 danger of controversy, that this firm introduced 

 and established cascara sagrada as a remedy. 



To Dr, C. H. Adair (1878), of Colusa, Cal., is 

 due the credit of furnishing the botanical speci- 

 mens that furnished the drug's botanical 

 position. 



I IS'eiu Preparations, January, 1878, p. i. 



