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tion,  and  has  been  in  business  about  41  years.  He  was  a  useful  and 
public  spirited  citizen  and  much  respected  in  the  community  where  he 
resided. 
PiERRE-FRANgois-GuiLLAUME  BouLLAY,  Dcan  of  the  Imperial  Academy 
of  Medicine,  Honorary  President  of  the  Society  of  Pharmacy  of  Paris,  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Journal  de  Pharraacie,  died  at  Paris  in  about 
the  first  of  November  last,  aged  92  years.  According  to  M.  Buignet,  from 
whose  address  we  draw  most  of  the  following  facts,  M.  Boullay  was  born 
at  Caen,  of  an  honorable  protestant  family,  and  commenced  his  education 
at  the  College  there,  but  his  studies  were  interrupted  by  the  revolution. 
He  commenced  his  career  as  pharmacien  with  M.  Mezaize,  at  Rouen, 
then  with  M.  Bacoffe,  of  Paris,  and  entered  the  laboratory  Vauquelin 
through  the  recommendation  of  Yalmont,  Bomare  and  other  savants, 
where  he  availed  himself  largely  of  the  advantages  his  position  under  this 
great  master  afforded,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty  gained  the  first  prize 
in  cl;iemistry.  He  founded  a  pharmacy  in  Paris,  in  1798,  which  became 
a  noted  center,  and  in  1803  became  a  member  of  the  Societie  de  Phar- 
macie.  In  1809,  in  company  with  MM.  Boudet,  Blanche.  Cadet  and 
Destouches,  he  founded  the  Bulletin  de  Pharmacie,  which,  in  1815,  be- 
came the  Journal  de  Pharmacie,  which  has  continued  to  the  present 
time.  Various  of  his  researches  mark  the  pages  of  this  great  serial.  He 
was  the  discoverer  of  picrotoxin,  and  in  connection  with  his  son,  the  late 
Polydore  Boullay,  developed  and  applied  the  methode  de  displacement 
to  pharmacy.  This,  more  than  any  other  of  his  labors  demands  the  re- 
gard of  Americans,  as  here  more  than  anywhere  else  has  this  valuable 
process  been  applied  in  pharmaceutical  manipulation.  In  1820  he  became 
a  member  of  the  Academic  de  jMedicioe,  and  was  the  last  of  its  founders. 
As  a  Pharmacien  M,  Boullay  was  noted  for  conscientiousnes  and 
probity.  He  did  not  accept  the  responsibility  of  a  medicine  unless  he 
prepared  it  himself.  His  laboratory  was  always  busy,  and  became  a 
school  in  which  many  eminent  pharuiaciens  commenced  their  career.  M. 
Boullay  was  a  member  of  many  learned  societies,  and  last  year  was  elected 
an  honorary  member  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy,  as  he  had 
previously  been  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
On  the  preliminary  organization  of  the  International  Pharmaceutical 
Congress,  held  at  Paris,  in  August,  1867,  M.  Boullay  was  elected  tempo- 
rary president,  and  his  venerable  appearance,  then  in  his  90th  year,  graced 
that  honorable  position. 
The  character  of  M.  Boullay  was  full  of  dignity  and  greatness  of  soul, 
and  though  jealous  of  the  prerogatives  due  to  his  age  and  long  experi- 
ence, his  urbanity  was  carried  in  all  his  relations,  and  caused  the  general 
esteem  of  those  who  knew  him. 
