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chair  of  "  Theory  and  Practice  of  Pharmacy  "  was  constituted  April  24,  1844, 
Dr.  David  Stewart  elected  thereto,  and  an  arrangement  effected  with  the  faculty 
of  physic  of  the  University  of  Maryland  whereby  the  lectures  of  the  college 
were  to  be  united  with  those  of  the  university,  thus  giving  the  medical  and 
pharmaceutical  students  reciprocal  advantages.  Thereafter  the  university 
lecture  and  faculty  rooms,  northeast  corner  Lombard  and  Greene  Streets,  were 
used  conjointly  by  the  representatives  of  both  institutions,  lectures  on  phar- 
macy, including  materia  medica,  being  delivered  by  Prof.  David  Stewart,  while 
the  pharmaceutic  students  attended  the  chemical  lectures  of  Prof.  Wm.  B.  A. 
Aikin,  then  also  dean  of  the  faculty  of  physic.  This  arrangement  with  the 
University  continued  in  force  until  1847,  when  Professor  Stewart  resigned, 
owing  to  the  number  of  students  continuing  small,  the  compensation  insignifi- 
cant and  the  general  interest  in  the  college  less  evident.  Of  the  seventeen 
originators,  seven  had  sought  other  occupations  and  four  had  passed  away  by 
death,  while  those  entering  the  profession  manifested  little  zeal  towards  its 
educational  improvement,  in  consequence  of  which,  after  March  23,  1848,  the 
lectures  and  meetings  were  discontinued  altogether  for  a  period  of  nine  years, 
the  charter  remaining  in  force,  when  through  a  revivifying  spirit  a  new  era 
dawned. 
Reorganization. — On  February  7,  1856,  ten  apothecaries  of  the  city  met 
together  in  the  hope  of  reaching  an  agreement  upon  certain  principles  by  which 
pharmacists  should  be  governed  in  their  relations  to  one  another.  At  this 
meeting  the  presiding  officer,  Israel  J.  Grahame,  boldly  affirmed  that,  in  his 
opinion,  this  could  be  accomplished  most  effectively  by  reorganizing  the  Mary- 
land College  of  Pharmacy,  and  by  a  united  determination  on  the  part  of  the 
apothecaries  to  give  it  their  hearty  support.  He  further  stated  that  the  by-laws 
of  that  quiescent  institution  contained  a  provision  which  entitled  all  pharma- 
cists in  good  standing  to  honorable  membership.  These  suggestions  were 
accepted  seriously,  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  wait  upon  the  holding- 
over  president  of  the  college,  George  W.  Andrews,  with  the  request  that  he 
call  a  meeting  of  the  old  organization,  and  of  pharmacists  generally,  to  con- 
sider the  matter  definitely.  This  meeting  was  held  February  20,  1856,  at  the 
northeast  corner  of  Lexington  and  Eutaw  Streets,  and  was  attended  by  thirty- 
one  druggists,  but,  owing  to  the  want  of  a  quorum  of  college  members,  the 
election  of  new  applicants  for  membership  had  to  be  deferred  five  days, 
February  25th,  when  they  were  accepted,  as  was  the  resignation  of  the  former 
officers,  the  successors  of  the  latter  being  promptly  chosen.  At  a  subsequent 
meeting  the  original  constitution  and  by-laws  were  revised,  a  code  of  ethics 
adopted  and  a  "  committee  upon  instruction  "  appointed,  consisting  of  Israel  J. 
Grahame,  Wm.  S.  Thompson  and  J.  Faris  Moore,  who  in  due  time  recom- 
mended the  creation  of  three  professorships — chemistry,  materia  medica  and 
practical  pharmacy — with  distinctive  professors,  each  to  deliver  at  least  twelve 
lectures  during  the  session.  A  canvass  of  the  city  indicated  that  about  twenty 
students  would  attend  that  fall,  1856,  consequently  rooms  were  rented  and 
properly  fitted  up  for  renewing  the  work  she  has  ever  since  striven  to  ennoble 
and  dignify. 
Habitations. — Like  many  institutions  of  humble  beginning,  she  has  expe- 
rienced a  certain  itineracy  more  healthy  than  otherwise,  that  which  in  each 
