Columbia University College of Pharmacy - Apothekan Yearbook (New York, NY)

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MATERIA MEDICA The Materia Medica Department endeavors to give the student a knowledge of the origins, compositions, properties and physiologi- cal actions of the medicinals employed in pharmacy. Since many of the medicinals are of plant origin and all are designed for the treatment of the various human or animal dis- orders, the department first offers preliminary courses in botany, physiology, zoology, and bacteriology. The direct work of the department commences in the student ' s DR C W R- II ARD l unior y ear wi ' n macroscopic pharmacognosy. In this course the student is given almost all of the 176 crude official drugs which he is required to identify at sight and in addition, several of the more important non- official drugs. Following is microscopic pharmacognosy which acquaints the student with the powdered form of the drugs which he has been given and many of their common adulterants. Materia Medica, offered in the final year, deals mainly with the action and uses of the many medicinals which the pharmacist may be called on to dispense. This subject is given together with courses in toxicology and posology. It can readily be seen that to the Materia Medica Department is entrusted the task of teaching the student to appreciate the importance and the responsibilities of a pharma- cist. Thus it is of the utmost necessity that the character and quality of this department both as regards faculty and equipment continue to be the very best attainable. Professors: Dr. Charles W. Ballard . . . our new dean . . . and one of our best

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lecturers . . . Cut out the undertones ... let me do the talking . . . my door is always open to any student . . . Dr. H. Randolph Halsey . . . the man who was born with a corn-cob in his mouth ... as a zoologist, worms, parmecia and hydra are tops ... an authority on the love life of a night blooming earthworm . . . Professor Harry Taub . . . our pal and favorite professor ... a regular fellow if ever there was one ... 1 remember when it happened to me once ... he ' s got a story complex . . . you know what kind of stories . . . Professor Franchon Hart . . . the only woman in the faculty ... an authority on bacteriology ... a wonderful research worker. Instructors: Mr. P. ... the people s choice for Clark Taylor . . . chyme marches on (with due respects to Morton Slavin) . . . Mr. Victor Lewitus . . . Vic ... he is always on the run in business and in fun . . . sometimes gets an awful inferiority com- plex . . . thinks everybody else is inferior to him ... Mr. Samuel Zweig ... an ambitious young instructor who is going places . . . loves to ask you the botanical origin of drugs with psychical effects ... Mr. Bernard L. Blumberg ... a practical bacteriologist . . . still remembers that he was once a student. Lab. Assistants: Edward Kohen . . . not Cohen . . . why don ' t you go on a diet and quit eating our hearts out? . . . James Wood ... a wee bit of Scotch . . . quiet . . . very nice . . . always willing to oblige. Miscellaneous: Minnie ... an alley cat . . . probably obtained from the species Felina Minniepuss . . . not more than 8% foreign organic matter attached ... an efficient mouse catcher . . . Mickey . . . her husband . . . very- jealous . . . the solution of the garbage problem.