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druggists  refused  to  fill  her  prescriptions.  It  is  said  that  teachers  in  the 
public  schools  instructed  their  pupils  not  to  walk  on  the  streets  with  Miss 
Longshore,  "  because  her  mother  was  a  woman  doctor."  To  meet  the  opposi- 
tion, Mrs.  Longshore  carried  her  own  medicines.  Conscious  merit  kept  her 
steadfast,  and  she  at  last  began  to  reap  her  reward.  By  the  end  of  her  third 
year  her  practice  had  increased  to  such  an  extent  that  she  was  compelled 
to  give  up  her  lectures  to  women,  which  had  met  with  such  success,  and  resign 
her  position  in  the  Woman's  Medical  College.  She  made  such  a  success 
during  forty  years  of  activity  that  she  retired  with  a  modest  fortune,  and  it 
wis,  said  that  her  practice  was  larger,  with  one  exception,  than  that  of  any 
other  woman  physician  in  the  United  States. 
Susan  Hayhurst's  twenty-fifth  anniversary  as  pharmacist  of  the  Woman's 
Hospital,  Philadelphia,  was  celebrated  by  a  reception  given  by  the  Board  of 
Managers  on  October  ist,  at  the  hospital.  Dr.  Hayhurst  has  probably  done 
more  for  young  women  in  pharmacy  than  any  one  else,  as  she  not  only  regu- 
larly employs  women  assistants,  but  many  come  to  her  to  gain  a  practical 
knowledge  of  pharmacy. 
Charges  W.  Parsons,  identified  for  nearly  twenty-five  years  with  pharma- 
ceutical education  and  journalism,  is  now  President  of  the  American  Correspond- 
ence University.  The  value  of  home  study  as  of  university  extension  work 
is  becoming  more  appreciated  by  educators  as  being  the  entering  wedge  to 
collegiate  and  university  work  by  those  who  for  various  reasons  are  not  attend- 
ants at  our  colleges.  The  course  in  pharmacy  as  conducted  by  Mr.  Parsons  in 
the  American  Correspondence  University  is  no  doubt  a  systematic  course  of 
such  a  character  that  will  benefit  pharmacists  who  have  not  had  the  advantages 
of  a  college  education.  The  course,  it  should  be  stated,  is  not  intended  to  take 
the  place  of  a  college  education. 
President  William  McKinley. — The  official  report  on  the  case  of  Presi- 
dent McKinley  has  been  published  in  a  number  of  medical  journals.  Whatever 
may  be  said  of  the  case  in  the  light  of  modern  progress  in  medicine,  the 
lamentable  fact  was  that  the  doctors  in  attendance  allowed  the  nation  to  believe 
for  some  days  that  he  would  recover.  The  result  was  that  the  shock  of  his 
final  collapse  and  death  was  as  great  as  the  first  news  of  the  assassin's  dastardly 
crime. 
Von  Mueller  National  Memorial  Fund.— The  Executive  Committee  to 
consider  the  best  form  for  the  memorial  to  take,  recommended  to  the  sub- 
scribers that  the  money  available  be  devoted  to  the  institution  of  a  medal  and 
a  prize,  to  be  awarded  at  intervals  of  not  less  than  two  years,  to  the  author  of 
the  most  important  contribution  to  natural  knowledge  published  within  the 
British  dominions,  not  more  than  five  nor  less  than  one  year  prior  to  the  date 
of  the  award. 
Some  Doctors  of  The  Oi^den  Time. — In  a  valuable  paper,  read  before  the 
Lebanon  County  Historical  Society,  J.  H.  Redsecker  has  given  some  brief  and 
interesting  sketches  of  some  of  the  old  doctors  of  Lebanon,  Pa.  It  is  very 
desirable  that  the  history  of  the  earlier  medicine  and  pharmacy  be  written,  as 
it  will  be  both  interesting  and  valuable  to  students  in  the  years  to  come. 
