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A  Retrospect  of  Pharmacy. 
(Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I  September,  1905. 
years  with  a  respectable  apothecary,  and  attended  two  courses 
oflectures  on  chemistry  and  materia  medica  in  the  University. 
"Advantages  would  no  doubt  have  accrued  from  this  accession  to 
the  original  plan  of  the  medical  department  had  it  not  been  super- 
seded by  the  establishment  by  the  apothecaries  themselves  of  a  dis- 
tinct school,  which,  being  under  their  own  management  and  directed 
to  the  one  object  of  advancing  the  usefulness  and  respectability  of 
the  profession,  is  naturally  more  popular  and  at  least  equally  effi- 
cient." 
Here  we  are  given  a  hint  of  the  difficulties  that  were  to  be  met  by 
the  founders  of  the  College  of  Pharmacy  in  combating  a  rival,  which, 
profiting  by  the  neglect  of  the  drug  fraternity,  had  already  inaugu- 
rated a  pharmaceutical  department  before  any  measures  had  been 
taken  to  supersede,  as  expressed  by  Dr.  Wood. 
In  this  movement  Henry  Troth  and  a  few  leading  druggists  were 
most  active,  and  much  credit  is  due  him  and  his  brother,  Simuel  F., 
for  their  persistent  efforts  through  the  early  years  of  the  college  in 
pushing  the  work  and  reviving  flagging  interest. 
To  the  historian  belongs  the  labor,  as  typified  by  Scott's  "  Old 
Mortality,"  of  restoring  the  time-worn  records  of  the  past,  and  in 
this  spirit  a  brief  account  of  an  old  Philadelphia  drug  house  and  its 
times  may  be  of  some  interest  to  a  younger  generation  which  is 
prone  to  complain  of  hard  work  and  long  hours,  by  bringing  to  their 
view  a  picture  of  the  greater  hardships  to  which  their  forbears  were 
subjected. 
Henry  Troth  came  from  Talbot  County,  Maryland,  in  1811,  to 
serve  a  five  years'  apprenticeship  with  Jeremiah  Morris,  a  retail 
druggist  on  the  north  side  of  Market  Street  west  of  Seventh.  At 
the  termination  of  his  apprenticeship  he,  in  partnership  with  his 
brother-in-law,  Edward  Needles,  bought  the  stock  and  fixtures  of 
Joseph  Lehman,  who  for  sixteen  years  had  carried  on  a  thriving 
drug  trade  at  No.  222  Market  Street,  south  side  east  of  Seventh, 
the  retiring  merchant  uniting  with  Peter  Lehman  at  No.  320,  be- 
tween Ninth  and  Tenth. 
Here  was  established  the  wholesale  drug  business  under  the  firm 
name  of  Henry  Troth  &  Co.,  which  continued  in  the  Troth  family 
nearly  fifty  years. 
The  late  war  with  England  had  ended,  peace  was  declared,  busi- 
ness was  booming,  profits  were  large,  and  by  pressure  of  thrift  and 
economy  capital  increased. 
