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Obituary. 
( Am.  Jour-  Pharm. 
\     August,  1887. 
subsequently  in  Augsburg,  where  he  also  commenced  the  manufacture  on 
a  large  scale  of  certain  pharmaceutical  preparations.  For  many  years  he 
was  Presiding  Director  of  the  South  German  and  later  of  the  German 
Apothecaries'  Society.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  commissions  for  the 
elaboration  of  the  two  editions  of  the  German  Pharmacopoeia  which  have 
thus  far  been  published. 
Joseph  C.  Kirkbride,  Ph.  G.,  a  prominent  pharmacist  of  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
and  President  of  the  St.  Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  died  in  that  city  of 
apoplexy  May  6th,  at  the  age  of  47  years.  He  was  an  apprentice  of  J.  C. 
Delacour,  Camden,  N.  J.,  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Phar- 
macy in  1863,  and  entered  into  business  in  St.  Louis  in  1867. 
Professor  Carl  Damian  Ritter  von  Schroff  died  in  Graz,  Styria,  June  17,  in 
the  eighty-fifth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  born  at  Kratzau,  Bohemia,  Sep- 
tember 12, 1802,  where  for  two  hundred  years  his  ancestors  had  been  prac- 
tising physicians.  He  was  educated  at  the  classical  school  (Gymnasium)  and 
at  the  University  of  Prague,  and  in  his  studies  paid  particular  attention  to 
the  ancient  languages  and  to  natural  history,  besides  the  usual  medical 
branches.  He  graduated  as  doctor  of  medicine  in  1828,  and  at  once  became 
resident  physician  of  the  new  Insane  Asylum  at  Prague,  and  was  for  several 
years  clinical  assistant  of  Prof.  Krombholz.  In  1830  he  was  called  to  the 
chair  of  Theory  of  Medicine  in  the  University  of  Olmutz,  and  in  1835  to  the 
same  chair  in  the  University  at  Vienna.  In  1849  he  was  transferred  to  the 
chair  of  General  Pathology  and  Pharmacology,  and  occupied  also  the  chair 
of  Pharmacognosy,  then  newly  created  for  the  education  of  pharmacists. 
In  the  following  year  he  was  also  appointed  a  member  of  the  Medical  Com- 
mission attached  to  the  Department  of  the  Interior,  and  subsequently  of 
the  Sanitary  Council.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  revision  of  two  editions 
of  the  Austrian  Pharmacopoeia,  and  in  1865  was  President  of  the  Arrangement 
Committee  for  the  celebration  of  the  five-hundredth  anniversary  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Vienna.  In  1874  he  retired  from  active  life,  and  some  years  after- 
wards moved  to  Graz,  where  his  son  Carl  is  professor  at  the  University. 
Schroff  wrote  a  very  large  number  of  essays  on  subjects  of  materia 
medica,  embracing  his  investigations  on  the  characteristics,  composition 
and  physiological  action  of  many  drugs,  and  various  toxicological  studies  ; 
those  possessing  chiefly  pharmaceutical  interest  were  mostly  published  in 
the  Journal  of  the  Austrian  Apothecaries  Society,  and  five  or  six  of  them 
were  republished  in  a  condensed  form  in  the  American  Journal  of  Phar- 
macy, 1860  to  1870.  Among  the  larger  medical  works  his  "  Pharmacology"  is 
perhaps  best  known ;  it  contains  the  results  of  Prof.  SchrofF's  physiological 
studies,  while  his  valuable  "  Pharmacognosy"  was  primarily  intended  for  the 
use  of  pharmacists.  Both  these  works  passed  through  several  editions.  In 
his  reports  on  the  drugs  at  the  Paris  Exposition  in  1867,  and  at  the  Vienna 
Exposition  in  1873,  will  be  found  a  large  amount  of  information  of  perma- 
nent value. 
The  deceased  was  a  member  or  honorary  member  of  a  large  number  of 
scientific  societies;  for  nearly  twenty  years  he  was  an  honorary  member  of 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
