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Obituary. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Phabm. 
\    March  1,  1872. 
Ad  intelligent  reader  is  sure  to  derive  useful  instructions  and  sound  views 
upon  many  subjects  from  a  perusal  of  this  volume,  even  if  he  does  not  believe 
in  the  kind  of  vitalizing'  capability  which  the  author  thinks  is  inherent  to  the 
excrementitious  salts  found  in.  the  manure  heap,  ... 
Announcement  of  the  Spring  Course  of  the  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago. 
The  building  of  this  College  was  destroyed  by  the  great  fire  last  fall  ; 
the  Faculty  have  secured  the  lecture  and  clinic  rooms  of  the  Cook  county  hos- 
pital, corner  18th  and  Arnold  Sis.,  to  commence  on  March  6th,  the  usual 
Spring  Course,  which  will  continue  sixteen  weeks. 
OBITUARY. 
Joseph  Arnold,  a  student  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  died  in 
this  city.  Feb.  14th,  having  nearly  completed  his  2 1st  year.  The  deceased  was 
a  son  of  Dr.  Arnold,  of  Uazleton,  Pa.,  in  whose  office  he  first  acquired  a  love 
for  pharmacy.  In  1868  he  came  to  this  city  and  engaged  with  Mr.  C.  E.  Haen- 
chen  to  learn  the  business.  Early  in  February  he  was  taken  sick  with  a  dis- 
ease of  the  spine,  which  attack  proved  fatal.  While  attending  his  first  course 
during  the  past  session,  he  was  an  attentive  student  and  well  liked  by  the  mem- 
bers of  his  class. 
Joseph  M.  Hindmeyeb,  a  student  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
we  are  informed,  died  of  typhoid  fever,  on  Sunday,  the  18th  inst. 
Charles  Shoemaker,  a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
Class  1866,  was  drowned  near  Wilmington  Del  ,  on  February  1st.  The  follow- 
ing communication,  regarding  his  death,  has  reached  us  : 
The  Executive  Board  of  the  Alumni  Association,  have  heard  with  regret  the 
death  of  Mr.  Chas.  Shoemaker,  of  the  class  of  1866,  which  took  place  on  the 
afternoon  of  Feb.  1st,  while  skating  on  the  Christiana  Creek. 
Mr.  Shoemaker  was  a  native  of  Germantown.  Pa.,  a  son  of  Benjamin  Shoe- 
maker, a  teacher  for  many  years  in  that  place.  He  was  regularly  educated  in  the 
drug  and  apothecary  business,  and  graduated  in  1866;  he  removed  to  Wilming- 
ton. Del.,  a  few  years  since,  and  had  established  a  thriving  business;  his  ur- 
banity and  ability  had  secured  him  many  friends  among  those  whose  intercourse 
he  enjoyed,  and  his  sudden  death,  at  the  age  of  25  years,  has  saddened  those 
who  had  met  him  either  on  business  or  in  social  life.  His  death,  however,  did 
not  find  him  unprepared,  for  he  had  the  well  grounded  hope  of  a  blissful  im- 
mortality. 
Tfros.  S.  Wiegand,  R,  M  .  Shoemaker,  B.  D.  Paxson,  Committee. 
Mr.  Lecanu,  Professor  at  the  Ecole  de  Pharmacie  and  member  of  the  Board 
of  Health  of  Paris,  France,  died  in  that  city  in  December  last. 
