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

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Horace M. Carter Dr. Lewis N. Brown H ERMAN J. A? MSTERDAM and decomposition, a thorough knowledge of chemistry is required, too. J he approach required to the study of pharmacy necessitates in the curriculum of the pharmacy department as varied a group of courses that can be found in any individual collegiate department in the country. An introduction to the science as an esteemed profession and an his- torical background is presented in the elementary Ethics and History course taught by Professor Curt Wimmer, the head of the Pharmacy department. I hen applied Latin embraces the subjective groundwork necessary to an intelligent understanding of prescription writing. Pro- fessor Jacob Dorfman, who recently wrote a new Latin book entitled Pharmaceutical Latin, is entrusted with the teaching of the subject. A conspectus of Pharmaceutical Economics as taught by Professor Frederick Lascoff includes the principles underlying the making and interpretation of legal documents and records. Included in this course is the discussion of economics in reference to the retail pharmacy trade. Joseph P. Miale Jacob S. Dorfman Frederick D. Lascoff

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PHARMACY DEPARTMENT Dr. Curt P. Wimmer Pharmacy is the art of preparing, compounding, and combining sub- stances for medical purposes; tbe art of tbe apothecary. As these sub- stances may be mineral, vegetable or animal, theoretical pharmacy re- quires a knowledge of botany, zoology and mineralogy; and as it is necessary to determine their properties, and the laws of their composition

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General governmental regulations governing pharmacy, and the rea- sons tor their existence are examined in the Jurisprudence course, also taught by Professor Wimmer. Important medical appliances and sundries so important to the modern pharmacist are studied under Professor Lascoff . Pharmaceutical mathematics taught by Professor Lewis N. Brown pro- vides arithmetical instruction necessary for the very important calculations and determinations encountered in prescription compounding and in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The dispensing and manufacturing laboratory training, the former under the supervision of Professor Brown and his assistants, Professor Dorfman and Mr. Joseph Miale, and the latter under the capable hands of Professor Horace Carter and Mr. Herman J. Amsterdam, commence with the compounding of simple prescriptions and the manufacture of common galenicals. The final dispensing course taught in the Senior year presents a polished student well versed in the art of prescription com- pounding. The manufacturing department prepares the modern pharma- cist for the laboratory.