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

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DISPENSING

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i?pen?ing The traditions of pharmacy lie in the mysterious processes of the prescrip- tion department. There, all the ef- forts of scientists, manufactur- ers, cultivators, and the my- riads of other agencies which stand behind every finished drug product reach their ultimate realization. There, the purified drug is combined with other sub- stances in such a way as to render the finished prepara- tion suitable for consump- tion as medicine. The principal object of a pharmaceutical education is the development of scientific skill, care, and accuracy in the compounding of prescriptions, } f K

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ST ' el K::yva ' n ame Israel J. Grahame was one of the great men of pharmacy who have been associated with the old Maryland College of Pharmacy, now the School of Pharmacy of the Univer- sity of Maryland. He was born in Baltimore in i8iQ and received his early education in the public schools. After serving an apprenticeship with one of the leading pharmaceuti- cal firms of Baltimore, he becam- engaged in his own retail drug business. In 1856 Dr. Grahame became Professor of Pharmacy of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, being the first incumbent of this position. He served several years as Pro- fessor of Pharmacy, during which he did much scientific work. He then moved to Philadelphia, where he opened a drug store and became a member of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Dr. Grahames most important contributions to pharmacy were his investigations into the process of percolation. He embodied his studies into his paper, The Process of Percolation or Displacement, which he read before the American Pharmaceutical Association, and which was published in that organization ' s Proceedings for iS S. In this paper he formulatetl with remarkable precision the principles of the process, specify- ing many details which are now universally followed. Dr. Grahame was largely re- sponsible for the acceptance of Huid-xtracts as an important class of pharmaceutical preparations. Among the fluidextracts which he studied were those of Ipecac and Valerian, both of which remain official today. He was an early member of the American Pharmaceutical Association, and one of its most active workers. Dr. Grahame died in 1899 at eighty years of age. His fine contributions to phar- macy stand as a memorial to him, and reflect credit upon the splendid traditions of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Maryland.