472 PROFESSOR GUIBOURT. 



THE LATE PROFESSOR GUIBOURT. 



1867. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has lost one of 

 its more eminent members in the person of Nicolas Jean 

 Baptiste Gaston Guibourt, the venerable professor of the School 

 of Pharmacy of Paris, who died on the 22nd of August at the 

 advanced age of seventy-seven. 

 Life and Commencing his pharmaceutical studies at the age of fifteen, 



occupations, ^j Guibourt was awarded five years later the first prizes (two 

 gold medals) for chemistry and pharmacy offered by the School of 

 Pharmacy, and about the same time was named 6Uve interne at 

 the Pharmacie Centrale des Hopitaux Civils, from which post he 

 was gradually advanced to those of Assistant Director and Ghef 

 des Magasins. After more than ten years' connection with the 

 administration of the civil hospitals of Paris, M. Guibourt was 

 received as pharmacien, and forthwith established himself in 

 business in the Rue Richelieu, then called the Rue Feydeau. In 

 1832 he was named Titular Professor of the Natural History of 

 Drugs of the School of Pharmacy of Paris, and in 1854 became 

 secretary to the same establishment, the onerous duties of which 

 post he performed with assiduity for more than twenty years. 

 Having abandoned the practice of pharmacy at the time he 

 accepted this office, M. Guibourt came to reside at the School of 

 Pharmacy, which continued to be his abode until last year, when 

 the infirmities of age induced him to retire. 



Lat illness. M. Guibourt's last illness was rapid. On the evening of the 

 20th of August he was present at the sitting of the Pharma- 

 ceutical Congress, which he addressed in an animated manner, 

 and it was expected he would be able to take part in the 

 discussions of the larger international assembly that was 

 about to meet on the following day. But symptoms of indis- 

 position had set in which increased in intensity the following 

 day, proving fatal to the venerable patient, who expired on 

 the morning of the 22nd without pain and in full consciousness 

 to the last. 



The death of M. Guibourt, as may be easily supposed, threw 

 the deepest gloom over the assembly of pharmacists then 



