532  The  Apprentice  of  Former  Days.  {XSeMm' 
with  all  the  standard  works  upon  pharmacy,  and  with  the  leading 
journals,  notably  the  foreign  ones,  for  but  little  original  work  is  or 
has  been  found  in  our  American  pharmaceutical  journals.  Among 
such  I  would  mention :  Jahresbericht  der  Pharmacie,  which  gives 
annually  all  the  work  done  in  pharmacy  during  the  preceding  year ; 
Hager's  Handbuch  der  Pharmaceutischen  Praxis,  Husemann  and 
Hilger's  Die  Pfla?izenstoffe,  Fliickiger's  Pharmacognosie  des  Pflanzen- 
reiches,  Arthur  Meyer's  Drogenkunde,  and  among  the  journals,  Ameri- 
can Journal  of  Pharmacy,  Archiv  der  Pharmacie,  Apotheker  Zeitung, 
Chemiker  Zeitung,  Pharmaceutische  Centralhalle,  Pharmaceutical  Jour- 
nal and  Transactions,  Berichte  der  Deutschen  Pharmaceutischeyi  Gesell- 
schaft,  Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Phar- 
maceutical Review  and  Archives,  Druggists  Circular,  and  others. 
After  your  careful  preliminary  history  of  the  work  done  on  your 
subject,  begin  a  description  of  your  own  work,  and  with  it  the 
figures  and  results  you  obtained,  and  your  conclusions  you  have 
deduced  therefrom.  Very  frequently  you  can  get  some  good  points 
from  the  dispensatories,  and  when  you  are  at  a  loss  what  to  do  next* 
or  how  to  get  at  some  information  you  need,  ask  your  instructor,  or 
write  to  such  men  as  Prof.  J.  U.  Lloyd,  Prof.  Fred.  Hoffmann  or 
Prof.  Fred.  B.  Power,  who  have  large  libraries  and  can  often  help 
you  and  will  be  glad  to  do  so  ;  or  drop  me  a  line,  and  I  will  gladly 
do  what  I  can  to  assist  you  in  your  laudable  effort  to  write  a  thesis 
that  is  a  thesis,  and  that  will  reflect  credit  upon  you,  your  illustrious 
Faculty  and  your  grand  old  Alma  Mater. 
THE  APPRENTICE  OF  FORMER  DAYS. 
A  Reminiscence. 
By  Wilwam  McInTyre. 
A  very  interesting  part  of  the  recent  meeting  of  the  American 
Pharmaceutical  Association  was  the  historical  pharmaceutical  exhi- 
bition and  the  recital  of  methods  current  in  the  drug  store  of  fifty 
years  ago. 
I  am  sure  the  men  of  that  period  have  left  an  impress  upon  the 
present,  and  it  may  be  permissible  to  present  a  few  thoughts  along 
lines  of  a  later  date,  even  if  it  may  be  somewhat  personal. 
I  began  my  apprenticeship  in  1859,  when,  in  consideration  of  some 
slight  attainment  in  Latin  and  chemistry,  my  yearly  pay  was  to  be 
