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

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Dnfscnlncro 5:-----iv Pro essor Suppan Lectures on Pharmacy of the Past XRXFY Professor L. Suppan delivered a most interesting lecture entitled Pharmacy of the past, the history of Pharmacy of ancient and medieval time was interest- ingly related and the lecture was illustrated with a large number of slides. The reception of the lecture is best shown by quoting a few paragraphs of a newspaper article about the lecture. It is: Back to the days when a drug store was only a drug store, and even before that, Professor Leo Suppan transported several hundred alumni and friends of the College during the course of an illustrated lecture last night in the school audi- torium. . i W'ith the aid of lantern slides, the professor of 'Botany and Pharmacognosy depicted the earliest periods of the Apothecary's Art. In connection with Professor Suppan's lecture, a very interesting exhibit was prepared. Much credit is due those who worked so hard on the display and the decorating of the museum in which it was held. The persons who co-operated so splendidly with 'Professor Suppan and Associate Professor E. E. Clark were: Associate Professor VVH1. C. Clark and N. Ferguson g Mr. Chas. Mueller, custodian of the building, and the following students: Ieskey, Rosenhauer, Klosterman, Kleist, Iacobus, Jackson, Scott, McClurg, Redinger, Cosgrid, Marlen, Evans, Brueggeman, Sotier, Webb and Misses Benincasa, Fitch, Eisle, and Corbin. Spe- cial credit should be given also to the Chi Iota Phi pledges. There were present about 300 people including Alumni members, faculty board members, students and their friends. There was on display the most com- plete collection of ancient pharmaceutical equipment ever exhibited. The following articles are only a part of the entire collection which is too large to mention: One table consisted of a number of unique containers for imported crude drugs, such as monkey skins, containing aloes: horns used for packing civet, kegs covered with horsehide, for shipping iodine, woven fibre sacks, containing cinnamon from China, and tin-lined copper flasks containing volatile oils, also from China. In other sections were to be found: a large collection of old text books, relating to Pharmacy, that are now out of print and unobtainable g a display of a number of preparations made by students prior to the XVorld's Fair of 1904-g an old micro- scope using a coal oil lamp for illumination fthe only one, I believe, in St. Louisj 3 a certificate awarded by the now extinct St. Louis Board of Pharmacy, issued in 1879 5 a number of volumes printed in French and German and illustrated in some instances by hand colored drawings: a complete display of alkaloids and their salts obtained from Cinchona barkg a number of old mortars fone of which was used by the first drug store in old Fort St. Louis before the purchase of St. Louis and territory, an unusually odd collection of rare drugs, used in Chinese pharmacies fconsisting mostly of lizards, beetles, centipedes and other such digestible looking A -Q-no 3:2 as Page EiglityfSix

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Q---lust D rg E S C I2 I D 'I 0 Once the plants have been planted and glasses arranged to your own indi- viduality and the smears of soil cleaned from the glass, the bowl should be covered with a glass- lid. A small square of window pane or a glass saucer will serve excellently. Strange but natural, the garden creates its own weather in miniature- that is, moisture which collects on bowl and lid each morning will fall on the plants and soil later on in the day like a refreshing rain. The soil should be tested occa- sionally for moisture and if necessary should be sprinkled very lightly. Direct sunlight and dark corners must be equally avoided. A north window is ideal. Many city druggists find it inconvenient to reach even those vestigial bits of woods required to find native plants for glass gardens and many others prefer the more colorful arrangements possible with tropical plants which can be obtained at most florists. The following plants are very good for glass gardens: Selagiuella CClub mosses in iridescent shadesj Ficus rejem' Adia-ntmii Capillus Venerio fMaidenhair fernj Cocos W edelliami Seedlings Kentia F01'steria1ma Seedlings. M 'zmdo Japuicum CSnakebeardj Saint Paulia Ionantha fAfrican Violetj Aspiduim Folcaturn fltlolly fernj Nephrolejifs enfaltota CSword fernj For Bright Color Tradescantia QVVandering Iewj V ittonia CRed or VVhite mosaic leaf plantj Acalyphie VVilkesianna QCoffee leafj Pandaris Sanderi P. Veitchi CSaw plantj Maranta CDwarf speciesj Pteris Cretica Alboliniata Qvariegated fernj One can create many unusual effects by exerting a little imagination not only in the choice of materials to be planted but in the type of container to be used. A burnt-out electric bulb will serve excellently as a container for a tiny glass garden. The glass garden is as near fool-proof as any garden can be. Moisture is a problem that seldom intrucles itself and then only when occasional watering is necessary. Evaporation and condensation on the container itself keep up the supply in constant succession as atmospheric conditions dictate the very same things that take place in Nature's great out-of-doors. Glass gardens are not only fool-proof so far as care is concerned, but they are in the reach of everyone. No matter how limited your means may be they will thrive for you. fy- IQ 2: 2 QIPKY5' Page EightyfFz'ue

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11---2: D IQ E 5 fir IQ I D T o fs---4-f drugsjg a set of herbs collected in 1860, still well preservedg a complete set of Pharmacopeas of U. S. and also a set of Dispensatories of the U. S.g a number of old prescriptions filled for prominent St. Louisans prior to 1860. There were also some very old drug store fixtures, a collection of old shelf bottles, some bearing labels of obsolete drugs and preparations: an interesting collection of manuscripts, including the first lecture given by Professor O. A. Wfall, 1874 fProfessor W'all died in 19225 : a collection of photographs, together with the history of the Collegeg part of a collection of drugs of the Philippines, exhibited at the St. Louis VVorld's Fair. ln addition to this, there was in contrast, a display of modern Pharma- ceutical equipment now us-ed in colleges and a display of some of the work of students of modern Pharmacy. Much attention was received by a display of preparations made by the students in the Pharmaceutical Laboratoryg the quality of the products was commented upon by the graduates and they were su1'prised to find the preparations represented not a special group for display but a collection of the preparations made by the students in regular laboratory periods, all mixed together. The unique way of showing the crude drugs, their commercial and geograph- ical origin in a display case with samples of the drugs with ribbons attached to a map of the world forming a background appealed to the gathering, This display was made possible by the courtesy of Meyer Bros. Drug Co., who presented this display to the College for the Museum. The display of plants grown at school by Mr. Kessler and Associate Professor E. E. Clark was an unexpected surprise to manyg this collection consists of a number of cactus plants and was displayed by Misses Corbin and Fitch. The old style shelf bottles .aroused the curiosity of many. They were effect- ively displayed by placing them on the shelves of the fixtures of an old drug store. These fixtures were donated to the Museum last year by Mr. Benincasa. The exhibition proved to be of far greater interest than anticipatedg the' stu- dents of all classes were allowed time to inspect the display and expressed great pleasure in looking over object after object and seeing part of what had gone on in Pharmacy in the past. The display was discussed and favorably commented upon by the medical professiong and a group of students of Wasliingtoii U. Medical School requested permission to View the exhibition in a body. The request was gladly granted and a class from the school visited the display and displayed a keen interest in the pharmaceutical side of medicine. It is hoped we will be honored by frequent visits of the classes of the medical school. fa Page EightyfSeven