1 88  Pharmacy  Hundred  Years  Ago.       j AtM^ch'  1921 rm' 
other  scientists  of  Philadelphia  in  1821  were  Dr.  Franklin  Bache, 
who  in  1819,  at  the  age  of  27,  published  his  "System  of  Chemistry," 
who  was  chosen  as  professor  of  chemistry  at  Franklin  Institute 
upon  its  organization  (1826),  who  was  professor  of  chemistry  at 
the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  from  1831  to  1841,  who  was 
Dr.  Wood's  associate  in  founding  the  United  States  Dispensatory, 
and  who  was  professor  of  chemistry  at  Jefferson  Medical  College 
from  1 84 1  until  his  death  in  1864.  Then  there  was  Dr.  Gerard 
Troost,  who,  we  glean  from  the  scanty  material  at  our  disposal, 
was  manufacturing  ferrous  salts  at  Cape  Sable,  Md.,  in  1817,  who 
had  a  chemical  factory  in  Philadelphia  in  1820,  who  was  professor 
of  chemistry  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy  during  the 
first  year  of  its  existence,  and  who  a  few  years  later  moved  to 
Tennessee,  where  he  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the  University 
of  Nashville. 
Pharmaceutical  America  in  182  i. 
Very  elusive  is  the  biographical  data  concerning  the  druggists 
of  a  century  ago.  The  first  American  pharmaceutical  publication, 
the  venerable  Journal  of  this  college,  which  has  taken  a  new  lease 
on  life  under  the  editorship  of  Mr.  Beringer,  did  not  appear  until 
1825,  and  the  first  volume  includes  eight  fascicles  published  between 
that  date  and  1830.  Of  the  Founders  whom  we  are  here  gathered 
to  honor,  there  are  three  of  whom  no  biographical  record  has  been 
found.  As  to  the  others,  from  obituaries  and  from  other  sources, 
we  glean  the  following  information: 
Henry  Troth  :  "The  Founder  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy,"  as  Profesor  Remington  has  called  him,  had  in  1821, 
a  wholesale  drug  store  at  Seventh  and  Market.  A  capable  and 
progressive  man  he  was,  one  of  the  first  Philadelphians  to  burn 
anthracite  coal  (which  cost  $8.40  a  ton  in  1818),  in  his  open 
grate;  one  of  the  members  of  the  Common  Council,  from  1827  to 
1836,  making  a  vigorous  fight  for  the  granting  of  a  gas  franchise 
from  1833  to  1836. 
Peter  K.  Lehman,  whose  conversation  with  Mr.  Troth  as  to 
the  proposition  of  the  granting  of  the  Master  of  Pharmacy  degree 
by.  the  University  led  to  the  historic  meeting  at  Carpenters'  Hall 
a  century  since,  had,  in  1821,  a  drug  store  at  Tenth  and  Market 
Streets. 
