AmAprii;iP9S5aruJ"}        The  Visit  of  Henry  S.   Wellcome.  197 
Hon.  John  Weaver,  Mayor  of  Philadelphia,  Dr.  John  H.  Musser, 
President  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  and  Prof.  Samuel 
P.  Sadtler. 
THE  CAREER  OF  MR.  WELLCOME. 
Mr.  Wellcome  has  had  a  most  interesting  and  varied  experience. 
He  was  born  in  Wisconsin,  and  spent  his  early  boyhood  days 
in  the  midst  of  the  Dakota  Indian  tribes  in  Minnesota,  the  scene  of 
Longfellow's  Hiawatha.  Later  he  participated  in  the  great  Sioux 
Indian  War,  when  more  than  a  thousand  whites  were  massacred. 
Mr.  Wellcome's  apprenticeship  in  pharmacy  was  served  under 
an  English  chemist,  in  Garden  City,  on  the  frontier  in  Minnesota. 
His  uncle  was  a  famous  physician  and  surgeon  whom  he  often 
assisted  in  operations  at  a  very  early  age,  and  quite  naturally  he  at 
first  thought  of  studying  medicine,  but  later  decided  to  become  a 
pharmaceutical  chemist.  He  then  went  to  Rochester,  Minn.,  with 
Poole  and  Geisinger  and  here  made  the  acquaintance  of  the  dis- 
tinguished surgeon,  Dr.  William  Mayo,  who  took  a  great  deal  of 
interest  in  him,  and  encouraged  him  in  his  studies,  and  among  other 
kindnesses  loaned  the  young  student  his  books.  In  1871  Mr. 
Wellcome  went  to  Chicago,  just  after  the  great  fire,  and  entered  the 
employ  of  Thomas  Whitfield,  whose  store  was  then  located  at 
Eighteenth  and  State  Streets.  Here  he  met  Dr.  F.  B.  Power,  with 
whom  he  formed  a  strong  friendship,  and  Prof.  F.  M.  Goodman, 
Dean  of  the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy,  who  was  then  manager 
of  Mr.  Whitfield's  store.  He  entered  the  Chicago  College  of  Phar- 
macy, where  he  attended  lectures  for  one  year,  but  as  young  Power 
had  come  to  Philadelphia  to  assume  the  directorship  of  Parrish's 
Laboratory,  he  decided,  at  the  suggestion  of  the  latter,  to  finish  his 
course  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy.  On  coming  to 
Philadelphia  Mr.  Wellcome  took  charge  of  Dr.  Hershey's  store, 
on  North  Fifth  Street.  He  graduated  in  1874,  the  subject  of  his 
thesis  being  "  Urethral  Suppositories."  The  mould  devised  by  Mr. 
Wellcome  for  making  these  suppositories  was  exhibited  at  the 
Pharmaceutical  Meeting  on  March  17,  1874. 
Shortly  after  graduation  Mr.  Wellcome  went  to  New  York  and 
took  a  position  with  Caswell,  Hazard  &  Co.,  on  Broadway.  As 
showing  the  bent  of  his  mind  at  this  time,  and  his  early  appreciation 
of  research  work,  we  may  refer  to  a  paper  by  him  on  "  Chlorinated 
