Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1904. 
Elizabeth  Marshall. 
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gone  into  this  in  a  most  painstaking  and  thorough  manner,  and 
deserve  the  praise  of  all  interested  in  pure  honey  for  what  you  have 
done.  You  will  understand  that  we  place  our  laboratories  always 
at  the  service  of  anyone  who  is  interested  in  stamping  out  adultera- 
tion in  honey,  or  in  foods  of  any  kind. 
"  Respectfully,  (Signed)  H.  W.  Wiley,  Chief." 
I  fully  believe  that  the  result  of  this  experiment  will  enable  us  to 
prove  before  any  court  of  law  the  adulteration  of  any  honey  yet 
put  up  in  the  United  States  for  commercial  purposes. 
JENKINTOWN,  PA. 
ELIZABETH  MARSHALL,  THE  FIRST  WOMAN 
PHARMACIST  IN  AMERICA. 
By  M.  I.  WlI^BERT, 
Apothecary  at  the  German  Hospital,  Philadelphia. 
It  may  not  be  generally  known  that  it  is  now  a  full  hundred  years 
since  a  woman  first  presided  over  an  apothecary  shop  in  Philadel- 
phia,- and  that  this,  so  far  as  known,  was  the  first  pharmacy  in 
America  to  be  so  controlled. 
The  circumstances  that  led  up  to  the  opening  of  the  shop  in  the 
modest  parlor  of  the  house,  then  56  Chestnut  Street,  were  referred 
to  by  Mr.  Evan  T.  Ellis,  in  his  story  of  «« A  Very  Old  Drug  Store  " 
(A.  J.  P.,  1903,  page  57),  and  will  be  referred  to  again,  at  some 
length,  later  on. 
Elizabeth  Marshall  was  the  oldest  daughter  and  the  oldest  living 
child  of  Charles  Marshall,  the  first  President  of  the  Philadelphia 
College  of  Pharmacy,  or,  as  it  was  then  called,  "  The  Philadelphia 
College  of  Apothecaries."  She  was  born  in  the  house  56  Chestnut 
Street,  old  number,  on  January  28,  1768.  As  a  child  she  was  much 
in  the  company  of  her  grandfather,  Christopher  Marshall,  and 
appears  to  have  been  his  favorite  grandchild,  being  repeatedly  men- 
tioned, in  a  commendatory  way,  in  the  unpublished  portions  of  his 
diary,  now  in  the  possession  of  the  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society. 
Some  of  the  details  of  the  business  conducted  by  Christopher 
Marshall  and  his  lineal  descendants  may  not  be  out  of  place  here, 
despite  the  fact  that  much  has  been  but  recently  told  by  Mr.  Ellis 
in  the  paper  referred  to  above. 
