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Obituary. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm . 
Dec  ,  1886. 
OBITUARY. 
Joseph  G.  Richardson,  Ph.  G.,  M.  D.,  died  suddenly  of  apoplexy  in  West 
Philadelphia,  November  13th,  at  the  age  of  50  years,  10  months.  He  was 
born  and  educated  in  Philadelphia  and  learned  the  drug  business  with  Charles 
Ellis  &  Co.,  graduating  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  in  1857,  his 
thesis  being  on  the  alkaloid  of  Veratrum  viride,  which  he  believed  to  be  iden- 
tical with  veratrine  (see  Am.  Jour.  Phae.  1857,  p.  204).  For  several  years  after- 
wards he  conducted  a  drug  store  and  while  thus  engaged  published  a  formula 
for  compound  syrup  of  phosphates  (Ibid.,  1858,  p.  19).  After  graduating  in 
medicine  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  he  practised  this  profession 
for  several  years  at  Union  Springs,  N.  Y.,  when  he  returned  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  soon  became  prominent  through  his  devotion  to  medical  microscopy, 
his  hygienic  studies,  and  his  voluminous  writings  on  these  subjects.  During 
the  past  year  while  visiting  Europe,  he  spent  much  labor  in  investigating  the 
water  supplies  and  sanitary  arrangements  of  European  cities. 
Dr.  Richardson  occupied  the  chair  of  Hygiene  in  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania and  was  a  member  of  the  local  Board  of  Health  and  of  various  medical 
and  hygienic  societies  in  this  country  and  in  Europe. 
Samuel  F.  Troth,  died  in  Philadelphia,  November  18th,  in  the  eighty- 
sixth  year  of  his  age.  When  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  was  or- 
ganized in  1821,  he  was  not  of  the  requisite  age  to  join  it  in  membership ;  but 
he  attended  the  first  course  of  lectures  delivered  in  that  institution  during  the 
winter  1821-22,  and  then  passed  the  examination,  which  rendered  him  eligible 
for  membership  in  the  College,  the  degree  of  Graduate  in  Pharmacy  not  being 
conferred  at  that  time  and  for  several  years  afterwards,  until  1826. 
Mr.  Troth  was  a  member  of  the  College  for  over  sixty-four  years,  and 
served  the  institution  faithfully  as  chairman  of  the  committee  on  Sinking  Fund 
and  as  vice-president.  During  the  past  eighteen  years  he  had  retired  from 
active  work  in  the  College;  but  his  interest  in  its  affairs  and  its  progress  re- 
mained unabated  to  the  last.  The  important  services  which  he  rendered  the 
College  will  doubtless  be  more  fully  reported  by  the  proper  committee. 
