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

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College History THE COLLEGE BUILDING Pharmacy was considered an art in ancient times, but it is now called a science. It was known to the old Greeks as testified to by such of their works as have been preserved, and lately discovered papyrus rolls have demonstrated that the priests of ancient Egypt understood the practice of combining and compound- ing medicines. On the continent of America there has nothing been found which might have suggested the more than empirical knowledge of the medicinal virtues of the products of nature. The medicine bag of the Indian sorcerer contained embry- otically the pharmacy of the later day in the last century, when our city was first settled, assisted or perhaps supplanted by the saddle-bag of the imported army and Jeff -' .eff-i'f in FW L... cm Avi f ,- f-Va Pez, HL' i Page SeventyfOne A-Q-L--A-al rv tesesn erp le-'-----is