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den;  Executive  Committee,  T.  A.  Miller,  John  T.  Watson  and 
Richard  Gwathmey. 
Candidates  for  vacancies  on  the  Board  of  Pharmacy :  Edgar  War- 
field,  N.  B.  Schmitt,  G.  T.  Mankin,  C.  B.  Fleet  and  H.  W.  Cole. 
For  the  next  place  of  meeting  Old  Point  Comfort  was  selected. 
THEODOR  HUSEMANN. 
Theodor  Husemann,  Professor  of  Pharmacology  and  Toxicology 
in  the  University  of  Gottingen,  died  rather  suddenly  on  February 
13,  1901,  having  lectured  with  his  usual  vigor  on  the  same  day. 
The  name  Husemann  has  been  a  familiar  one  in  medicine  and 
pharmacy  for  more  than  a  hundred  years.  Theodor  Husemann, 
the  subject  of  this  brief  sketch,  was  born  on  January  13,  1833,  in 
Detmold,  Germany.  He  received  his  preliminary  education  in  the 
Gymnasium  in  Detmold  and  later  studied  medicine  and  the  natural 
sciences  in  the  Universities  of  Gottingen,  Wurzburg,  Prag  and  Ber- 
lin. He  was  assistant  for  several  years  to  Professor  Oltendorf,  in 
the  University  of  Prag  and  while  there  perfected  his  knowledge  of 
the  languages  and  of  the  history  of  the  natural  sciences  and 
medicine,  thereby  laying  the  foundation  for  his  future  success  in 
these  departments.  Beginning  in  1856  with  a  paper  on  the  Histori- 
cal Study  of  Pediculosis,  Husemann  became  renowned  for  his  contri- 
butions on  historical  and  philological,  medical  and  scientific  subjects. 
In  the  latter  part  of  the  fifties,  he  began  his  studies  and  researches 
in  pharmacology  and  toxicology,  subsequently  writing  a  number  of 
important  papers  on  these  subjects,  among  which  may  be  men- 
tioned: Potassium  Cyanide  Poisoning,  Symptoms  of  Strychnine 
Poisoning,  Ptomaines  and  their  Significance  in  Judicial  and  Toxicolo- 
gical  chemistry,  xetc.  It  may  be  said  that  his  work  went  far  to  lay 
the  foundations  of  the  scientific  study  of  toxicology. 
Husemann  undertook  to  practice  medicine  in  1859  and  i860, 
but  gave  it  up  to  devote  himself  entirely  to  his  toxtcological  and 
pharmacological  studies  in  the  University  of  Gottingen.  He  began  to 
publish  a  series  of  valuable  papers  on  Meat  Poisons  and  Meat  Poison- 
ing and  made  a  reputation  for  himself  in  various  poison  litigations. 
^his  paper  was  translated  by  Dr.  F.  B.  Power  from  the  Arch.  Pharm., 
1881,  p.  415  and  appeared  in  this  Journal,  1882,  p.  152. 
