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

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LYMAN SPALDING 1775-1821 Dr. Lyman Spalding was born in Cornish, New Hamp- shire, on June 5, 1775, and died in Portsmouth, New hiampshire, October 30, 1821. He was graduated at Harvard Medical School, with the degrea of M.D., in 1797. In 1798, while still a student, he as- sisted Professor Nathan Smith in establishing the medical school at Dartmouth, collected and prepared chemical ap- paratus, delivered the first course of lectures at the open- ing of the institution, and pub- lished A New Nomenclature of Chemistry, proposed by Messrs. De Movau, Lavoisier, Berthollet and Fourcroy, with additions and improvements. His medical studies were afterward continued at Cambridge and Philadelphia, and he entered upon the practice of medicine at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was given the degree of M.D. by Dartmouth in 1804 and Harvard in 1811. With Dr. Spalding originated the plan for the formation of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, by the authority of all the medical societies and medical schools in the Union. He subjected the project to the New York County Medical Society, and in 1818 It was adopted by the Medical Society of the State of New York. The first edition of the work was published in 1820, and a new one is issued every ten years. Dr. Spalding was a contributor to medical and philosophical journals, and, besides several lectures and addresses, published Reflections on Fever, and Par- ticularly on the Inflammatory Character of Fever, Reflections on Yellow Fever Periods, and A History of the Introduction and Use of Scutellaria Lateriflora as a Remedy for Preventing and Curing Hydrophobia. He was active in introducing Into the United States the practice of vaccination as a prevention of the smallpox, and was a trustee of the only free school that New York then possessed.

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When future historians record world events, they will no doubt refer to the present war as the greatest of all times — a war in which the peoples of one-half the world were arrayed against the peoples of the other half in an endeavor to preserve the freedonn of nations and the democratic way of life. To us, the year 1942 will mark the time when our country entered the war. As members of the graduating class of this year, you will, tlierefore, receive your diplomas at a most critical time in the life of our country. It will be at a time when every citizen will be making an all-out effort to build up the armed forces and to produce the materials necessary to bring victory to the nations with which we are allied. At a time such as this, your opportunity for service to your country and to the cause which it has championed will be unlimited. I am confident that you will give the best that is in you to serve your country in this critical period and thus maintain the traditions of the founders of the State of Maryland and of your Alma Mater. I congratulate you upon completing your formal education at a time when the opportunities for outstanding service are so great. A. G. DuMEZ, ANDREW GROVER DUMEZ, Ph.G., B.S.. M.S.. Ph.D. Dean of the School of Pharmacy De

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