University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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' i TERRA M A R I A E 19 3 5 Streets, which building was made possible by an, appropriation from the State of Mary- land during the legislative meet of 1929. The new building is the realization of a great need for adequate quarters in which to teach the honored profession of Pharmacy in Maryland. Everyone interested in Phar- macy may well be proud of the splendid building, as well as of the modern equipment and apparatus which have been provided for demonstration and teaching purposes. From the foregoing it will be seen that the School of Pharmacy of the University of Maryland, which began its existence as the Maryland College of Pharmacy, has e.xercised its functions as a teaching institution since 1841 except for the ten-year period 1846 to 1856. In spite of its vicissitudes it has steadily borne itself onward and upward. It has steadily increased and improved its facilities to enable it to impart instruction in keeping with the pharmaceutical knowledge of the times. It was the first institution of its kind to establish a professorship of Pharmacy, and thereby allocate to that branch of learning an individuality of its own. It was also one of the first schools to make analytical chemistry obligatory for graduation. In still other lines its leadership has been manifested, particularly in the textbooks published by members of its teaching staff. The result has been a steaiiy growth in size and infiuence so that the School now holds a position in the front ranks of the teaching institutions of its kind in this country. twenty-five

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TERRA M A R I A E 9 3 5 Tlic- Department of l h.irmacy of the University of Maryland (the Maryland College of Pharmacy) was the first to be established in the School. In fact, the Maryland School has the distinction of having ' created the first full professorship in pharmacy in this country. Three years after the School was organized, in 184-4, the chair of Theory and Practice of Pharmacy was established and David Stewart was the first professor to occupy the chair. The Department of Pharmacy has been the outstanding department of the College since its beginning. This is no doubt due in a large part to the char icter of the men who have occupied the chair of Pharmacy, among them being Professor Israel Grahame, who attained national recognition for his work on per- colation, and Dr. Charles Caspari, Jr., who made an enviable reputation in his work on the United States Dis- pensatory and on his textbook on Pharmacy which has gone through a number of editions and is still in pub- lication. I or some years the Department was handi- capped because of the lack of equipment and ailec]uate quarters for carrying on its work. These handicaps were left behind in 1930, when the School moved into the new building provided for it by the State. Its quarters are now up-to-date and equipment of the most modern type has been in.stalled for teaching all of the courses in pharmacy, including manufacturing pharma- cy. Recently tlie Department has taken over the opera- tion of the pharmacies of the LIniversity Hospital and the Free Dispensary which will provide additional fa- cilities for instruction. ANDREW G. DuMEZ. Fh.G.. B.S., M.S., Ph D. Prole, u„ J I PhMin. twenty-seven