AsS*S&SSSF*l      Edward  Robinson  Squibb,  M.D.  427 
thousands  of  dollars  in  devising  apparatus,  only  to  find  that  some 
important  detail  had  been  omitted,  and  time  had  been  lost  and 
money  wasted  until  the  defect  was  remedied,  and  if  the  careless 
reader  had  realized  these  facts,  criticism  would  certainly  have  been 
withheld. 
Sterling  honesty,  and  right  because  it  was  right,  were  his  guiding 
principles.  If  an  error  occurred  in  making  a  preparation  in  the 
laboratory,  the  standing  rule  was  to  report  it  at  once.  The  writer 
well  remembers  an  occasion  when  some  mistake  was  made  in  the 
menstruum  for  a  lot  of  fluid  extract  of  cinchona.  It  contained  pos- 
sibly 10  per  cent,  too  much  or  too  little  alcohol.  The  culprit,  a 
most  worthy  German  pharmacist,  appeared  before  the  doctor  and 
confessed  his  sin.  Without  a  moment's  hesitation  the  doctor  said, 
" That's  too  bad,  that's  too  bad;  empty  it  all  down  the  culvert;" 
and  fully  $500  worth  of  fluid  extract  of  cinchona  found  its  way  into 
the  East  River. 
The  writer  had  the  hardihood  to  ask  the  doctor,  a  week  after  the 
occurrence,  why  this  had  been  done.  The  answer  has  never  been 
forgotten.  He  admitted  that  it  would  be  possible  to  make  an  equal 
lot  of  fluid  extract  of  cinchona  with  the  menstruum  so  altered  that 
when  the  two  were  mixed  the  result  would  have  the  proper  alco- 
holic strength;  he  turned  almost  fiercely  and  said,  "Such  work  can 
never  be  done  in  this  laboratory.  These  mistakes  are  costly,  but 
the  example  and  lessons  to  be  learned  are  valuable,  and  I  will  not 
permit  a  patched  up  fluid  extract  to  leave  this  place."  He  never 
referred  again  to  the  incident,  but  it  may  well  be  said  that  mistakes 
of  that  kind  were  never  made  again. 
When  the  College  of  Pharmacy  of  the  City  of  New  York  was 
younger  and  lacked  the  financial  support  it  has  since  secured,  Dr. 
Squibb  gave  it  his  services  as  a  teacher  without  remuneration.  This 
was  in  1869-71,  when  the  faculty  consisted  of  Professor  Chandler, 
Professor  of  Physics  and  Chemistry;  Dr.  Squibb,  Professor  of  Phar- 
macy, and  Dr.  Day,  Professor  of  Botany  and  Materia  Medica.  At 
a  meeting  of  the  college,  held  in  October,  1900,  it  was  resolved  to 
present  an  engrossed  testimonial  to  Dr.  Squibb,  the  occasion  of  this 
token  ol  appreciation,  being  the  rounding  out  by  the  Doctor  of  his 
four  score  years. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association,  the  New 
York  State  Medical  Association,  the  Kings  County  Medical  Asso- 
