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Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
August,  1920. 
courage  which  defends  and  the  courage  which  attacks.  He  was  the 
leader  of  a  great  battle  and  he  fought  it  with  a  clenched  fist.  He 
answered  Scripture  by  Scripture  and  quoted  Genesis  II,  21,  in  which 
it  is  related  that  when  the  Lord  wished  to  take  a  rib  from  Adam  in 
order  to  make  Eve,  "God  caused  a  deep  sleep  to  fall  upon  Adam  and 
he  slept."  Thus  it  was  proven  that  God  himself  made  use  of  anes- 
thetics in  difficult  operations. 
When  Queen  Victoria  herself,  on  two  occasions,  availed  herself  of 
chloroform  as  an  anesthetic  in  obstetrics  and  administered  by  Simpson 
himself,  then  the  heretic  became  a  hero,  the  rebel  became  a  savior: 
In  due  time  the  baker's  son  had  a  Sir  in  front  of  his  name  and  a 
Bart,  after.  The  doctor  adopted  for  his  coat  of  arms  the  rod  of  Aes- 
culapius over  the  motto  Victo  dolerel  Oxford  gave  him  a  D.C.L., 
Edinburgh  has  his  statute,  and  his  bust  stands  in  Westminster  Abbey. 
Although  not  strictly  pharmaceutical,  I  want  to  record  briefly  the 
death  of  two  literary  authorities. 
DUMAS. 
Alexander  Dumas  (Pere)  was  born  in  1802  near  Dieppe,  the  son 
of  one  of  Napoleon's  generals,  a  Haytian  mulatto  of  ability  and  edu- 
cation. Dumas  became  the  Walter  Scott  of  France  with  a  succes- 
sion of  historical  works  which  have  been  the  delight  of  three  genera- 
tions.   He  died  in  1870. 
DICKENS. 
Charles  Dickens,  one  of  the  greatest  of  English  novelists,  was 
born  in  18 12.  His  "Pickwick  Papers"  in  1836  won  him  fame  and 
wealth.  His  keen  description,  human  pathos,  knowledge  of  child 
nature,  comedy,  tragedy  and  romance,  appealing  to  the  average 
mind,  made  Dickens  one  of  the  most  influential  writers  of  the  19th 
century.    He  died  in  1870. 
CONCIyUSIONS. 
If  this  paper  arouses  a  little  more  interest  in  that  much  neglected 
subject,  history  of  pharmacy,  the  writer  is  well  paid  for  the  trouble 
he  has  taken.  The  sooner  the  pharmacist  will  realize  that  even  a 
little  knowledge  of  history  will  benefit  him,  intellectually  and  also 
flnancially,  the  better  will  it  be  for  professional  pharmacy. 
In  case  the  members  of  the  New  Jersey  Pharmaceutical  Associa- 
tion appreciate  these  historical  notes,  the  author  is  perfectly  willing  to 
promise  annually  a  paper  on  "Pharmaceutical  Events  Fifty  Years 
Ago."   
