Am.  Jour.  Pharm. ) 
July,  1920.  ) 
As  It  Was  in  i8yo. 
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The  fortunate  location  of  the  laboratory  in  the  dispensary  and 
specialty  building  enabled  the  attending  surgeons  personally  to 
use  the  facilities  of  the  laboratory  in  many  instances.  We  had  the 
heartiest  cooperation  and  support  of  the  ward  surgeons  and  the 
extent  of  the  work  done  reflects  their  interest  in  this  side  of  the  pa- 
tients' care  and  treatment. 
AS  IT  WAS  IN  1870.* 
By  H.  V.  Arny,  Ph.M. 
This  auspicious  occasion,  the  Golden  Anniversary  of  the  oldest 
State  pharmaceutical  association  from  the  standpoint  of  continuous 
operation  gives  us  the  opportunity  to  rejoice  and  to  remember. 
The  writer  is  one  who  believes  that  the  future  is  built  upon  the  past 
and  while  too  much  delving  into  history  may  make  a  man  as  dried 
up  as  a  mummy,  enough  makes  one  the  better  for  the  delving. 
So  let  us  lift  the  curtains  of  the  past  and  let  us  see  what  the  pharma- 
ceutical journals  of  1870  said  about  1870.  As  to  the  New  Jersey 
Pharmaceutical  Association  we  find  three  references  noting  the 
meetings  in  Newark  on  Jan.  26,  Feb.  17  and  24th  and  in  Trenton  on 
March  24th,  when  the  proposed  pharmacy  law,  following  a  "model" 
draft  approved  at  the  1869  meeting  of  the  A.  Ph.  A.  was  drawn  up 
and  ordered  presented  at  the  next  session  of  the  legislature.  The 
Proceedings  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association  for  1870 
states  that  at  its  Baltimore  meeting  the  delegates  appointed  from 
the  New  Jersey  Association  were  Randall  Rickey,  J.  L.  De  la  Cour, 
Jr.,  William  Rust,  E.  F.  Kelly  and  Julius  Fehr.  Of  these  only  the 
first  named  was  present  at  the  meeting.  In  that  year  New  Jersey 
had  28  A.  Ph.  A.  members,  seven  from  Jersey  City,  three  from 
Camden,  two  each  from  Newark,  Burlington,  Morristown,  and  one 
each  from  Bordentown,  Elizabeth,  Elizabethport,  Hackensack, 
Hoboken,  Madison,  Mt.  Holly,  New  Brunswick,  Plainfield,  South 
Amboy,  Trenton  and  Vincentown. 
This  is  all  of  the  1870  references  to  the  New  Jersey  Pharma- 
ceutical Association,  more  space  being  given  to  the  West  Virginia 
and  Indiana  associations,  both  of  which  died  after  a  few  years,  while 
our  association  has  lived  and  grown  and  flowered  even  unto  this,  its 
Golden  Anniversary. 
*  Read  before  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Association,  Newark,  N,  J., 
June,  1920. 
