Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
Nov.,  1882.  j 
Obituai^y. 
591 
Hogin,  and  through  the  printed  minutes  over  a  dozen  of  advertisements 
are  scattered,  appearing  as  jDarts  of  the  minutes.  The  Proceedings  of  the 
Pennsylvania  Association  contains  the  proposed  pharmacy  law,  as  revised 
by  the  committee,  in  accordance  with  the  suggestions  made  at  the  meeting. 
JEssentials  of  Vaccination;  a  Compilation  of  Facts  relating  to  Vaccine 
Inoculation  and  its  Influence  in  the  Prevention  of  Small-pox.  By  W. 
A.  Hardaway,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Diseases  of  the  Skin,  in  the  Post-Grad- 
uate Faculty  of  the  Missouri  Medical  College,  at  St.  Louis,  etc.  Chicago : 
Jansen,  McClurg  &  Co.,  1882.    8vo,  pp.  146.    Price,  $1. 
While  this  little  volume  does  not  profess  to  be  a  comprehensive  treatise 
on  vaccination,  it  will  be  nevertheless  welcomed  as  embracing  and  sifting 
from  the  extended  literature  on  the  subject  the  main  and  important  facts 
relating  to  its  history  and  merits,  which  must  lead  every  unbiased  mind  to 
acknowledging  the  blessing  that  vaccination  has  been  to  the  human  race, 
and  towards  persisting  in  the  efforts  of  reforming  such  evils  as  may  exist, 
and  of  extending  the  practical  usefulness  of  the  measure,  so  that  in  the 
course  of  time  the  noble  dream  of  Jenner,  the  total  extinction  of  small- 
pox, may  be  realized. 
OBITUARY. 
Friedrich  Woehler.— On  the  25th  of  September  the  Atlantic  cable 
announced  the  demise  of  this  veteran  chemist  at  Goettingen,  where  he  had 
resided  for  forty-six  years,  occupying  for  about  forty  years  the  chair  o^" 
chemistry  in  the  university  of  that  city,  and  remaining  in  active  connec- 
tion with  this  institution  to  the  time  of  his  death. 
Woehler  was  born  at  Eschersheim,  near  Frankfort-on-the-Main,  July  31, 
1800,  was  educated  at  Roedelheim  and  Frankfort,  and  studied  medicine  at 
Marburg  and  Heidelberg,  receiving  the  title  of  M.D.  at  the  latter  university 
in  1823.  But  his  lavorite  studies  were  mineralogy,  physics  and  chemistry, 
notably  the  latter  science  which  owes  to  his  patient  and  accurate  researches 
much  of  its  present  position.  While  a  medical  student,  he  commenced  his 
investigations  of  the  cyanogen  compounds,  and  experimented  upon  the 
secretions,  through  the  urine,  of  various  compounds,  the  latter  researches 
proving  the  conversion,  in  the  animal  economy,  of  citrates,  tartrates  and 
similar  salts  of  the  alkalies  into  alkaline  carbonates.  The  diligent  and 
observing  student  soon  attracted  the|  attention  of  Leopold  Gmelin,  his 
teacher  in  chemistry,  in  Pleidelberg,  who  advised  him  to  embrace  chemis- 
try as  his  i)rofession  in  the  place  of  medicine.  Woehler  acted  promptly 
upon  this  advice,  worked  for  a  year  under  the  guidance  of  Berzelius  and 
accompanied  the  latter  upon  a  tour  of  ex2)loratioii  through  Norway  and 
Sweden  in  the  summer  of  1824.  In  the  following  spring  he  received  and 
accepted  a  call  as  professor  of  chemistry  to  the  Polytechnic  School  of  Ber- 
lin, and  in  1832  to  a  similar  institution  at  Cassel,  from  which  place  he 
removed  to  Goettingen  in  1830. 
