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John  Michael  Maisch. 
[  Am.  Jour.  Ptaarm. 
I      August,  1903. 
This  constitutes  practically  the  beginning  of  his  active  and  serious 
career.    In  the  same  year  he  became  a  member  of  the  American 
Philadelphia,  October,  1859. 
SIR  :  — 
The  undersigned  takes  this  method  to  inform  you  that  lie  lias  as- 
sumed the  position  of  Superintendent  of  the  practical  department  of 
PARRISH'S  SCHOOL  OF  PHARMACY. 
It  will  be  his  endeavor  to  continue  the  course  of  instruction  upon 
the  same  basis  that  has  been  pursued  in  this  establishment  here-, 
tofore,  and  he  hopes  thereby,  to  preserve  the  high  reputation  in 
"which  it  has  been  held  during  the  ten  years  of  its  existence. 
The  Pharmaceutical  classes  will  consist  of  four  students  ,  the 
sessions  will  be  held  twice  a  week — one  and  a-half  hour  each.— 
The  instructions  will  embrace  all  manipulations  required  in  a  phar- 
maceutical establishment, 
Besides  the  instruction  in  practical  pharmacy,  a 
Laboratory  for  Practical  &  Analytical  Chemistry, 
designed  in  particular  for  the  wants  of  pharmaceutists  and  physi- 
cians, will  be  opened.  A  limited  number  of  students  can  be  ac- 
commodated. 
The  course  of  instruction  in  Practical  Chemistry  will  embrace  the 
preparation  of  elementary  bodies  and  their  compounds,  researches 
on  the  properties,  reactions,  combinations  and  decompositions  of 
the  same,  and  the  most  approved  modes  for  investigating  their 
purity. 
In  Analytical  Chemistry,  the  preparation  of  the  test  liquids,  the 
qualitative  and  quantitative  analysis  of  inorganic,  and  of  the  more 
prominent  organic  compounds,  and  the  analysis  by  means  of  the 
blow  pipe,  will  be  taught.  Instruction  will  also  be  given  in  the 
proximate  analysis  of  crude  vegetable  bodies,  to  which  the  particu- 
lar attention  of  medical  and  pharmaceutical  students  is  visited. 
For  students  sufficiently  advanced,  it  is  the  intention  to  pursue 
a  practical  course  of  toxicological  analysis,  for  which  purpose  the 
various  organs  and  secretions  of  poisoned  animals,  as  well  as  food, 
which  has  been  intentionally  poisoned,  will  be  subjected  to  quali- 
tative, and  as  far  as  possible,  also  to  quantitative  analysis. 
The  Chemical  Laboratory  will  be  open  every  day  during  the 
week,  Saturdays  excepted,  from  9  A.  M.  to  4  P.  M.  A  convenient 
hour  will  be  set  apart  on  each  Saturday  for  examination,  and  to 
review  and  discuss  the  labors  of  the  preceeding  week. 
Teems — For  a  quarterly  course,  in  practical  pharmacy,  $10  00 
Including  the  Lectures  of  Mr.  Edward  Parrish,  15  00 
For  Practical  or  analytical  chemistry  per  month,       25  00 
^The  use  of  apparatus,  tests,  &c,  included.) 
Applications  for  instructions,  or  for  further  particulars,  may  be 
made  at  Mr.  Parrish's  Lectures,  in  College  Avenue,  on  Wednesday 
and  Saturday  mornings  between  8  and  9  o'clock,  or  at  the  Lab- 
oratory, 800  Arch  Street. 
J.  M.  MAISCH. 
Leaflet  Announcing  J.  M.  Maisch's  First  Work  as  a  Teacher. 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  and  three  years  later  he  joined  the 
Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy. 
An  interesting  anecdote,  illustrating  the  studious  habits  of  the 
