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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm* 
July, 1885. 
tion.  Another  curious  clause  is  the  one  allowing  any  person  to  enter  upon 
the  business  of  an  apothecary  luithout  registration^  provided  he  does  not 
personally  do  the  duties  of  an  apothecary,  but  employs  a  registered  apoth- 
ecary. 
The  struggles  for  pharmacy  laws  in  some  of  the  States  have  lasted  for  a 
number  of  years  ;  but  while  in  Massachusetts  they  have  come  to  a  success- 
ful issue,  even  though  the  law  be  not  as  perfect  as  might  be  desired,  in 
other  States  the  attempts  have  again  failed.  The  bill  which  was  before  the 
Pennsylvania  Legislature  was  at  lirst  burdened  with  amendments  not  ger- 
mane to  its  objects,  as  for  instance  the  prohibition  of  renewing  prescrip- 
tions without  the  phj^sician's  written  order,  and  after  these  failed,  the  bill 
secured  a  majority  of  93  against  77  in  the  House,  but  failed  for  the  want  of 
the  constitutional  majority. 
It  may  be  mentioned  yet  that  the  Kansas  pharmacy  law  makes  the 
apothecary  the  custodian  of  the  original  prescription  ;  likewise  that  prose- 
cutions under  the  pharmacy  acts  in  Philadelphia,  New  Jersey,  Illinois  and 
other  States  resulted  in  the  conviction  of  the  offenders,  and  that  in  those 
cases  in  which  appeals  were  taken,  the  validity  of  the  law  was  sustained 
by  the  higher  tribunals. 
OBITUARY. 
Fkkdixand  Hassencamp,  a  prominent  pharmacist  of  Baltimore,  died 
in  that  city,  April  29.  He  was  a  native  of  Marburg,  Hesse-Cassel,  where 
he  was  educated,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  Baltimore  for  over  thirty  years. 
He  took  great  interest  in  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacj^,  and  served 
faithfully  as  Director  and  Examiner  of  this  institution  ;  he  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Pharmacy  and  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Asso- 
ciation, took  an  active  part  in  the  management  of  many  charitable  insti- 
tutions and  social  societies,  and  secured  a  large  circle  of  friends  who  valued 
him  for  his  amiability  in  social  intercourse  and  for  his  worth  as  a  man. 
Notice  of  the  death  of  the  following  graduates  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  has  been  received  : 
Chas.  S.  Lee,  class  1870,  died  in  Philadelphia,  of  apoplexy,  April  1,  aged 
37  years. 
Horace  H.  Owex,  class  1880,  in  business  in  Philadelphia,  died  at  York, 
Pa.,  of  typhoid  fever,  April  9. 
Fred.  Loose,  Jr.,  class  1880,  was  drowned  in  the  Schuylkill  river,  near 
Philadelphia,  June  17,  at  the  age  of  25  years. 
Arthur  E.  Lewis,  class  1880,  of  Scranton,  Pa.,  died  at  Santa  Barbara, 
Cal.,  April  1,  of  consumption,  aged  25  years. 
John  G.  Seitz,  class  1882,  died  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  June  21,  after  a  linger- 
ing illness. 
George  W.  Eldridge,  class  1863,  in  business  in  Philadelphia,  died 
suddenly  of  heart  disease,  June  25,  1885. 
