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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
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DIQESCIQIDTC e---l-- doctor and the closets of provident Creole mothers who stored the carefully gathered herbs and roots from which they prepared the cherished and healthful remedies which but seldom caused any injury. There were no publicly recognized collections of medicines as we have now in our drug stores, for almost fifty years after St. Louis was founded. During the year 1812 the first drug store was opened by Dr. Robert Simpson, a gentleman of high attainments, who served his town honorably in different positions of trust and acquired a good old age in robust health. He died in 1873. Another drug store was started by Drs. Farrar and Walker, who became associated with Joseph Charless, Sr., a name which has graced the annals of the drug business for a long time. ln 1815 Dr. Simpson formed a partnership with Dr. Pryor Quarles, which lasted until 1818, which they sold out to Dr. Arthur Nelson, who became associated shortly afterwards with a young German pharmacist, Dr. Herman L. Hoffmann. He became well known for his superior knowledge and kept his memory fresh in the minds of his surviving contemporaries as the best apothecary of those days. He died as proprietor of a line, well patronized drug store, in 1878. The interest in Pharmacy and in wholesale and retail drug stores went apace with the growth of the city, but it remained the interest of individuals and not of a united profession as it is now. Anyone who expected to profit by the enterprise could open a drug store, sell medicines, and even dispense prescriptions, if there were customers who would confide, but they were gradually replaced by educated young pharmacists from the Eastern states or from Europeg especially Germany, where political disturbances during 1848 and 18-19, followed by the defeat of the Revolutionary Party, had compelled a large number of educated persons to immi- grate to this country, many of whom selected the west for their homes. By such addition of intelligent persons to the already established professional men, a com- mendable spirit of unity and association was awakened, which needed but a timely impulse to be brought into action. Eugene L. Massot was born in Kentucky in 1824 and from 1845 served a four-year apprenticeship in a drug store in Galena, lllinois. The then raging gold fever induced him to try his luck in California, and upon his return in 1851 he engaged for one year as clerk in a St. Louis drug store, after which he estab- lished and conducted his own business successfully from 1852 until his death. Massot was by no means a highly educated man, and, indeed, nobody more than himself knew and regreted this defect, but he was a whole souled fellow, enthusias- tically inclined and when he had become acquainted with the organized pharma- ceutical societies in the East, especially in Philadelphia, he resolved to assist the future generation of his own city to obtain a better education than he had been able to procure himself, and he agitated the question of a similar organization in St. Louis. He worked hard at his self-imposed task and ultimately, with the assist- ance of similarly disposed minds, he succeeded in organizing the St. Louis Phar- maceutical Association in 1858, with Dr. james O'Gallager as president and .A ...Q 19 3 2 ps DQ Page Seventy T1,uo
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