342        Centennial  of  the  University  of  Maryland.    { AmjK^\?07frm' 
University,  the  Medical  College  of  Maryland  became  the  Medical 
Department  of  the  University,  with  a  faculty  known  as  the  Faculty 
of  Physic.  The  centennial  celebration  commemorated  the  organi- 
zation and  continuous  work  of  the  Faculty  of  Physic,  first  as  the 
Medical  College  of  Maryland,  and  second  as  the  Department  of 
Medicine  of  the  University  of  Maryland. 
At  the  session  of  the  General  Assembly  of  Maryland  in  1882, 
the  charter  of  the  University  was  so  amended  as  to  provide  for  the 
creation  of  a  Dental  Department,  and,  in  1904,  the  Maryland  Col- 
lege of  Pharmacy,  which  was  founded  in  1840,  became  affiliated 
with  the  University.  While  the  growth  of  the  several  departments 
of  the  University  furnishes  a  record  that  she  may  well  be  proud  of, 
for  they  were  developed  on  the  principle  that  it  is  better  to  raise 
one  school  to  a  high  degree  of  efficiency  rather  than  to  attempt 
experiments  which  are  hazardous,  it  will  be  more  pertinent  to  this 
Journal  to  refer  to  the  history  of  the  Department  of  Pharmacy. 
This  is  succinctly  given  by  Prof.  D.  M.  R.  Culbreth  in  the  Hospital 
Bulletin,  for  May  15,  1907,  and  is  as  follows  : — 
In  order  to  elevate  pharmacy  in  their  midst,  on  June  8,  1840,  three  prominent 
physicians,  representing  the  Maryland  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Faculty — Wm. 
E.  A.  Aikin,  William  Riley  and  Samuel  Baker — met  at  the  house  of  the  latter 
eight  representative  pharmacists — Thomas  G.  Mackenzie,  George  W.  Andrews, 
David  Stewart,  Robert  H.  Coleman,  Henry  B.  Atkinson,  John  Hill,  Jonathan 
Chapman  and  J.  W.  W.  Gordon.  The  meeting  was  presided  over  by  Dr.  Baker, 
and  was  not  only  interesting,  but  important,  from  the  fact  that  it  appointed  a 
committee  of  five  apothecaries,  who  should  report  subsequently  the  best  plans 
for  a  college  of  pharmacy  in  the  city  of  Baltimore.  A  month  later,  July  6th, 
a  general  meeting  of  the  regularly  educated  apothecaries  in  Maryland  was 
called  (in  order  that  all  might  have  an  opportunity  to  express  their  views  upon 
the  proposition),  at  which  a  committee  was  appointed  to  draft  a  constitution 
and  by-laws  and  to  report  back  at  a  similar  meeting  two  weeks  later,  July  26th, 
the  day  from  which  dates  the  existence  of  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy. 
At  the  following  session  of  the  legislature  it  was  made  a  legalized  institution 
by  incorporation,  the  memorial  being  presented  to  that  honorable  body  by 
Benjamin  Rush  Roberts  and  Robert  H.  Coleman,  passed  upon  January  27,  1841, 
and  signed  a  short  time  thereafter  by  the  then  Governor,  Hon.  William  Grason. 
The  incorporators,  seventeen  in  number,  immediately  organized  and  estab- 
lished a  course  of  instruction  in  chemistry,  materia  medica  and  pharmacy,  it 
being  decided  that  lectures  for  a  while,  at  least,  should  be  delivered  by  the 
various  willing  members  of  the  college  in  regular  rotation.  Seven,  having 
thus  consented,  entered  upon  their  duties  the  first  week  in  November,  1841, 
and  continued  to  the  close  of  the  session  of  1843-1844,  when  it  was  considered 
advisable  to  have  distinctive  professors  for  each  department.    As  a  result  the 
