-Am.  Jour.  Pharm  1 
Nov.  1, 1873.  J 
Minutes  of  the  College. 
515 
Jackson  would  call  in  and  say,  "  Friend  Durand,  I  would  like  to  use  such  and 
such  medicines  in  combination ;  now  do  your  best  to  make  me  an  efficient 
preparation  as  agreeable  as  possible  ;"  Mr.  Durand  would  then  study  out  the 
practical  difficulties  and  get  the  medicine  into  shape.  In  this  way  many  pre- 
parations came  into  use  in  Philadelphia,  first  in  small  quantities,  but  gradually, 
by  the  frequent  prescribing  of  them  by  Dr.  Jackson,  became  popular  medi- 
cines, sold  in  large  quantities  with  printed  labels.  The  use  of  Dr.  Jackson's 
name  in  connection  with  some  of  these  preparations  was  an  accidental  occur- 
rence, arising  from  the  patients  of  that  physician  asking  for  them  as  "  Dr. 
Jackson's  " — a  course  perhaps  encouraged  by  the  extreme  liberality  of  Dr. 
'  Jackson — but,  when  too  late  to  recall  it,  Mr.  Durand  deeply  regretted  having 
unintentionally  involved  his  friend  and  patron  in  a  question  of  professional 
ethics.  Among  these  may  be  mentioned  "  Jackson's  Pectoral  Syrup,"  "  Jack- 
son's Pectoral,"  and  "Ammonia  Lozenges,"  "The  Saline  Aperient,"  a  com- 
pound of  tartrate  of  soda,  bicarbonate  of  soda  and  cream  of  tartar  with  oil  of 
lemon,  "  Narcotic  Cigarettes,"  "A  peculiar  denarcotized  laudanum,"  the  fore- 
runner of  u  McMunn's  Elixir,"  "  Syrup  of  Phosphate  of  Lime,"  and  "  Com- 
pound Mixture  of  the  Phosphates,"  afterwards  made  into  a  syrup,  came  into 
use  from  his  prescriptions,  at  Durand's.  Phosphate  of  potash  was  here  first 
■made  for  medicinal  use  for  Dr.  Jackson,  for  the  u  compound  syrup  of  the 
phosphates,"  which  still  continues  in  use  in  modified  forms  as  made  by 
Blair,  Parrish  and  others.  Extractum  sanguinis,  made  from  the  blood  of  the 
ox  deprived  of  its  corpuscles,  was  also  a  suggestion  of  Dr.  Jackson.  The 
"Powder"  and  u  Elixir"  of  Dr.  Castillon,  of  Cuba,  Cucumber  ointment,  Lar- 
tigue's  pills  and  various  noted  French  preparations,  as  Baume  Tranquille, 
Baume  Genevieve,  Onguent  de  la  Mere  and  Leroy's  medicines  were  introduced 
by  Durand,  and  he  was  the  first  to  import  and  dispense  "  Quevenne's  iron  by 
hydrogen  "  in  pills,  at  the  suggestion  of  Dr.  Meigs,  who  prescribed  them  in 
large  quantities  in  a  great  variety  of  cases. 
Through  all  the  varied  engagements,  disappointments  and  losses  of  our 
friend,  his  interest  in  botany  never  wavered,  and  appears  to  have  been  a  source 
©f  great  pleasure  and  satisfaction.  In  1837  he  made  an  expedition  to  the  Great 
Dismal  Swamp  of  Virginia,  where  he  acquired  many  interesting  specimens 
His  friendly  relations  with  Joseph  Bonaparte  (Count  Souvilliers)  caused  him 
often  to  visit  the  fine  country  seat  of  the  latter,  at  Bordentown,  famous  for  its  bo- 
tanical treasures,  where  he  met  and  was  useful  to  many  of  his  countrymen  in  exile 
in  their  inquiries  regarding  American  institutions.  He  spoke  of  the  Count  as  a 
man  of  mild  and  polished  manners,  unaffected,  and  gifted  with  a  most  agrees 
able  flow  of  language.  Possessing  great  erudition,  he  yet  suited  his  conversa- 
tion to  the  one  conversing  with  him,  making  intercourse  with  him  pleasant  and 
agreeable,  and  he  seemed  to  be  perfectly  familiar  with  all  the  natural  sciences. 
In  1840,  when  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  invited  to  assist 
in  the  revision  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia,  Durand  was  one  of  the  Committee 
appointed  to  that  service,  in  which  he  took  part  and  contributed  valuable  sug- 
gestions to  the  work,  several  of  which  yet  remain  after  three  successive  revi- 
sions. The  writer  served  with  him  on  this  Committee,  and  well  remembers  hia 
valuable  labors  and  counsel  given  on  that  occasion. 
