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their  respective  courses.  At  a  meeting  held  a  week  later,  the  price 
for  the  tickets  was  changed,  and  it  was  agreed  that  for  the  first 
course  the  price  was  to  be  $12,  and  for  the  second  course  $10. 
The  following  week,  April  23,  1821,  Samuel  Jackson,  M.D., 
was  elected  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  and 
Gerard  Troost,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Chemistry. 
Dr.  Samuel  Jackson.  Samuel  Jackson,  M.D.,  the  first  Pro- 
fessor of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  was  born  in  Philadelphia  on 
March  27,  1787.  His  father  was  a  druggist,  engaged  in  business 
on  North  Fourth  Street,  and 
Samuel  learned  the  apothe- 
cary business  there,  and  al- 
though he  had  been  graduated 
a  Doctor  of  Medicine  from 
the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, he  was  active  in  phar- 
macy at  the  time  of  the 
founding  of  the  College,  and 
became  one  of  its  charter 
members. 
He  was  eminently  fitted  for 
this  professorship.  His  intro- 
ductory  lecture   on  "Condi- 
tions   of    Medicine    in    the  dr.  samuel  jackson 
United  States,  and  the  Means 
to  Their  Reform,"  evidenced  the  high  ideals  of  the  lecturer  and 
forshadowed  his  future  successful  career  as  a  medical  practitioner 
and  teacher. 
In  1827,  Dr.  Jackson  resigned  his  professorship  in  the  Col- 
lege in  order  to  assume  a  chair  in  the  Medical  Department  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  with  which  institution  he  was  con- 
nected as  a  teacher  for  thirty-six  years.  He  played  no  insignficant 
part  in  the  development  of  medical  education.  After  his  with- 
drawal from  the  chair  of  Materia  Medica  and  Pharmacy,  he  did 
not  lose  his  interest  in  the  College  of  Pharmacy.  He  served  as 
second  Vice-President — 1827-1829,  and  as  first  Vice-President — ■ 
1 829- 1 83 1.  He  died  April  4,  1872,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years. 
Gerard  Troost,  M.D.,  the  first  Professor  of  Chemistry,  was 
