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/  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\       July,  1892. 
OBITUARY. 
Dr.  William  Dymock  died  at  his  residence,  Malabar  Hill,  Bombay,  April  30,  of 
influenza.  He  joined  the  Bombay  medical  service  in  1859,  was  for  a  couple  of 
years  attached  to  the  Indian  navy,  and  in  1871  was  appointed  medical  storekeeper 
to  the  Indian  Government,  in  which  position  he  largely  increased  the  local 
manufacture  of  galenicals,  introduced  the  most  improved  machinery  for  their 
manufacture,  and  increased  the  efficiency  of  the  pharmaceutical  department  of 
the  service.  To  the  world  at  large  he  rendered  eminent  service  through  his 
researches  on  the  materia  medica  of  India.  Beginning  with  his  paper  on  the 
asafcetidas  of  the  Bombay  market  in  1875,  a  number  of  his  contributions  to 
materia  medica  have  been  republished  in  this  Journal.  The  last  publication 
in  which  he  was  engaged  as  one  of  three  authors  is  that  of  the  Pharma- 
cographia  Indica,  of  which  the  sixth  and  last  part  was  not  quite  completed 
at  his  death  ;  the  five  parts  published  have  been  duly  noticed  in  this  Journal. 
In  1887,  Dr.  Dymock  was  deservedly  honored  by  being  awarded  the  Hanbury 
Medal.  Previous  to  that  time  he  had  been  made  an  honorary  member  of  the 
Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great  Britain,  and  also  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy. 
Henry  F.  For  mad,  M.  D.,  died  suddenly  in  Philadelphia,  June  5,  in  the  forty- 
sixth  year  of  his  age.  He  was  born  in  southeastern  Russia,  served  as  assistant 
surgeon  in  the  R'ussian  army,  escaped  threatened  arrest  on  the  charge  of 
nihilism,  and  continued  bis  studies  at  Heidelberg,  where  he  graduated,  and 
afterwards  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  graduating  from  this  institution 
in  1877 ;  subsequently  he  became  demonstrator  of  pathology,  which  chair 
he  held  until  his  death.  He  was  well  known  for  his  pathological  researches, 
and  as  an  expert  in  medico-legal  questions.  For  more  than  eleven  years  he 
had  been  coroner's  physician. 
George.  W.  Pancoasl,  Ph.G.,  died  at  the  Pennsylvania  Hospital,  June  23,  aged 
30  years.  The  deceased  was  an  apprentice  of  the  late  J.  W.  Worthington, 
Moorestown,  N.  J.,  and  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy 
with  the  class  of  1885.  While  charging  a  soda  water  tank  at  the  Stackhouse 
pharmacy,  on  June  14,  the  gas  being  passed  through  a  rubber  hose  into  the 
tank,  the  latter  exploded,  causing  compound  fractures  of  the  right  thigh  and 
leg,  necessitating  the  amputation  of  the  injured  member.  Death  resulted  from 
exhaustion,  due  to  secondary  hemorrhage.  The  deceased  was  a  careful,  con- 
scientious pharmacist ;  he  became  a  member  of  the  College  shortly  after  he 
graduated. 
George  Webb  Sanford,  a  distinguished  British  pharmacist,  died  Ma3^  16,  1892, 
at  Cromer,  in  the  same  house  in  which  he  was  born  in  1813.  It  is  said  of  him 
that,  since  the  death  of  Jacob  Bell,  he  had  achieved  more  substantial  good  for 
pharmacists  than  any  other  member  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Society  of  Great 
Britain,  of  whose  Council  he  was  a  member  for  twenty-four  years,  serving  part 
of  the  time  as  vice-president  and  as  president.  It  was  during  his  presidency 
and  largely  due  to  his  efforts  that  the  British  Pharmacy  act  of  1868  was  passed. 
