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retired  to  spend  his  remaining  days  in  the  seclusion  of  his  family 
circle.  He  died,  March  29,  1883,  in  his  ninety-first  year.  Besides 
being  a  pharmacist  of  more  than  ordinary  ability  and  scientific 
training  and  attainments,  he  managed  to  infuse  a  considerable 
amount  of  his  enthusiasm  and  knowledge  into  his  contemporaries. 
Dr.  Geo.  B.  Wood,  in  i860,  said  of  him  that  "  he  was  without  an 
equal  among  the  apothecaries  of  his  time,  in  scientific  and  literary 
attainments.  It  was  largely  due  to  the  encouragement  that  he 
extended  to  the  younger  men  that  pharmacy  has  been  able  to  reach 
its  present  development." 
Two  other  portraits  of  men  active  in  the  early  days  of  American 
pharmacy  were  to  be  found  side  by  side — those  of  Wood  and 
Bache,  names  that  are  still  familiar  throughout  the  length  and 
breadth  of  the  United  States. 
Franklin  Bache,  M.D.,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1792.  He 
was  the  editor  of  the  first  official  U.S.P.,  published  in  Boston,  in 
1820.  He  was  professor  of  chemistry  in  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  from  1 831  to  1 841  and  later  was  connected  with  Jefferson 
Medical  College.  His  habits  of  accuracy  and  his  attention  to  minor 
details  enabled  him  to  contribute  much  valuable  material  to  the  first 
edition  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory,  which  appeared  in  1833. 
Dr.  Bache  died  in  Philadelphia,  March  19,  1864.  His  friend  and 
associate,  Geo.  B.  Wood,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  was  professor  of  chemistry 
in  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  from  1822  to  1831,  and 
Professor  of  Materia  Medica,  from  1831  to  1835,  when  he  resigned 
to  become  a  member  of  the  medical  faculty  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania. 
He  was  the  originator  of  the  United  States  Dispensatory,  which 
has  always  held  a  foremost  place  on  the  shelves  of  the  pharmacist 
as  a  book  of  information  and  reference.  Dr.  Wood  died  in  Phila- 
delphia, March  30,  1879,  at  tne  advanced  age  of  eighty-two.  A 
contemporary,  in  speaking  of  his  work  in  connection  with  Dr.  Bache, 
said:  "Their  names  will  always  occupy  one  of  the  most  prominent 
places  in  the  history  of  pharmacy." 
While  Philadelphia  was  foremost  in  establishing  a  school  of  Phar- 
macy, it  was  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  that  first  consid- 
ered the  "  theory  and  practice  of  pharmacy  "  worthy  of  a  separate 
chair.  It  was  particularly  fitting  therefore  that  the  Maryland  College 
of  Pharmacy  should  send  a  picture  of  Thomas  G.  Mackenzie,  the 
