St Louis College of Pharmacy - Prescripto Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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---it-as DnEsclQll1To1sc----l- The Drug Museum The Pharmaceutical Museum at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy is still in its infancy. The collection of objects for the Museum dates back to 1903, when Professor Suppan decided to collect any object of pharmaceutical interest avail- able, with the intention of starting a Museum. For years Professor Suppan collected items of interest but not much progress was made due to the lack of co-operation. However, this did not discourage him. In Autum, 1929, he set aside the NfVest laboratory of the third lioor for this pur- pose. NVith the co-operation and splendid support of Professor E. Clark and Mr. John La Cavera, the ideal was realized and today the Museum has a fairly large collection of interesting objects, such as obsolete apparatus, equipments, Chinese drugs, Memorial volumes, books long out of print, numerous hand colored plates of drawings of plants, old type drug containers, old shelf bottles, show globes Cthe Symbol of Pharmacy, which at the present time, the druggists are trying to revivej, show cases, etc. The Museum Committee hopes that in the near future it will have sufficient fixtures donated by the various retail pharmacists to install an obsolete type of apothecary shop. The Retail Druggists who are about to remodel their drug stores are invited to donate to the Museum any object that they believe will be of interest, such as fixtures, shelf bottles, old style mortars and pestles, etc. We feel sure that this Museum will stand as a record of the past apothecary shops and their equipments which were very crude compared to the modern equip- Page NinetyfFour

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il--s Dofscnlnio poisons was the notorious Marquise de Brineilliers who secured her knowledge by cold-blooded experimentations upon patients of the hospitals that she visited under the guise of charity. These women, while not pharmacists, were interested in the study of certain drugs, and used laboratory methods rather injudiciously. Of the pharmacy of our own country during the early period Le Wall says, one authority states that pharmacy at this time was largely in the hands of the Indians, schoolmasters, old women, and clergymenf' Vfe find, however, no indi- vidual women named, although a number of clergymen and schoolmasters are listed. VVe know that at present more and more women are entering the profession of pharmacy although biographers have not seen tit to note the fact. From our school the first woman was graduated in 1876, a Miss Florence Schmidt. She was a woman of considerable courage to embark on a career so avowedly a man's province at such an early date. And though we find this intrepid woman graduat- ing more than fifty years ago, nevertheless, in the entire history of the school almost seventy years, only one hundred fifteen women have been enrolled and of this number only about sixty have received certificates of graduation, less than one per year. VV hen this number is compared with the more than three thousands of men graduated of the school, the number is arresting by its very smallness. At present there are eighteen women students enrolled in the Collegeg con- stituting about 8 per cent of the student body, a larger percentage than at any other time in the history of the school. The following are the names of the women now enrolled in the St. Louis College of Pharmacy preparing to enter the profession of pharmacy and of whose achievements we trust future biographers may find material worthy of record: Sister M. Alexius Sister M. Alphonsita Sister M. Benedict Sister M. Bernida Miss Grace 'Benincasa Sister M. Carissima Miss Ruth Corbin Miss Helen E. Driscoll Miss Veronica H. Eisele Sister M. Ethelberta Miss Dorothy Fitch Sister M. Hortensis Sister Joana Miss Fay Johnston Sister Marie Sister Mary of Mercy Mrs. E. E. Morton Miss Bernice Raskas Aff 1 Q, . PQ -sr IQ 3 2 T... X ff' no Page NinetyfTh1c

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Dpfsculnro sul- ment of the up-to-date pharmacy. In comparing the means available to the phar- macist of yesterday, their accomplishments are almost inconceivable and for the past Hfty years their work has been very commendable. This Museum will have the exact signincance to Pharmacy students as the Historical Museum has to History studentsg a past record of conditions and achievements of their predecessors. This Museum should also prove a valuable source of information, not only on matters of curiosity, but also on those of an educational point of view, and we hope that in the future the students of the St. Louis College of Pharmacy will bear these things in mind and do their utmost to enlarge the collection, thereby making it one of the most complete and interesting Drug Museums among the Colleges of Pharmacy. 2, I9 3 2 gh. J bd Page NinetyfFi-ue