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Dr.  Friedrich  Hoffmann. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
March,  1905. 
favor  it  because  any  measure  which  improves  the  practice  of  phar- 
macy by  demanding  higher  educational  requirements  from  the 
manager  or  proprietor  of  a  pharmacy,  increases  the  value  of  the 
physician  to  the  public,  because  if  the  doctor's  prescriptions  have 
not  been  intelligently  and  safely  compounded,  his  efforts  to  save  the 
patient's  life  are  null  and  void. 
When  we  consider  the  benefits  that  have  accrued  to  the  medical 
and  dental  professions  in  the  State  of  Pennsylvania  since  the  enact- 
ment of  the  laws  requiring  that  only  those  who  can  practise  these 
professions  in  this  State  shall  be  graduates  of  reputable  medical  and 
dental  schools  or  colleges,  it  is  but  fair  to  ask  that  the  pharmaceuti- 
cal profession  receive  equal  consideration  at  the  hands  of  our  legis- 
lature. The  advances  in  one  of  these  professions  should  be  followed 
by  similar  advances  in  the  others,  as  they  are  more  or  less  allied  in 
their  aims,  and  are  all  more  or  less  intimately  concerned  with  the 
public  health. 
DR.  FRIEDRICH  HOFFMANN. 
The  news  of  the  death  of  Dr.  Friedrich  Hoffmann,  at  his  home  in 
Berlin,  on  November  30th,  was  more  or  less  anticipated,  for  it  was 
known  to  his  friends  that  his  health  had  been  in  a  precarious  condi- 
tion for  some  years  past.  Dr.  Hoffmann  spent  the  best  years  of  his 
life  in  this  country,  and  to  him  American  pharmacy  is  much  in- 
debted for  the  progress  made  during  that  time.  Dr.  Hoffmann  was 
elected  an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
December  30,  1895,  and  we  feel  that  we  cannot  do  better  than  to 
give  the  sketch  of  his  life  prepared  by  his  friend  and  co-laborer, 
Dr.  Frederick  B.  Power,  which  appearedjn  the  Chemist  and  Druggist 
(London),  December  10,  1 904: 
"  It  is  a  sad  duty  for  the  writer  of  these  lines  to  record  the  death 
of  one  of  the  veterans  of  scientific  pharmacy,  Dr.  Friedrich  Hoff- 
mann, which  occurred  at  his  home  in  Charlottenburg  on  November 
30th.  The  realization  of  the  loss  which  has  thus  been  sustained, 
and  which  will  be  deeply  felt  by  a  large  circle  of  professional  asso- 
ciates, becomes  accentuated  to  one  who  for  thirty  years  had  known 
him  in  the  more  intimate  relations  of  a  true  and  kind  friend. 
"  Friedrich  Hoffmann  was  born  in  Wnezen-on-the-Oder  on  June 
20,  1832.  His  early  instruction  was  received  from  his  father,  who 
was  distinguished  both  as  a  theologian  and  philologist,  and  was  at 
one  time  a  councilor  of  the  Consistory  at  Stettin.    He  then  attended 
