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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THE need of an Institution where apprentices in pharmacy could be given systematic in- struction in the sciences underlying their profession has long been felt by leading pharmacists and physicians of Baltimore, when in 1841 a charter was obtained from the General Assembly for the Maryland College of Pharmacy. The incorporators, seventeen in number, and among whom were Messrs. George M. Andrews, Thomas G. MacKenzie, R. Rush Roberts, Robert Coleman and Dr. David Stewart, immediately organized and established courses of instruction in chemistry, pharmacy and materia medica. These men carried on the work of the college until 1847, when, owing to the death of some members and change of business of others, they were compelled to suspend all lectures. During the period of operation, however, they graduated a number of eminent pharmacists, to whose efforts in resuscitating and reorganizing the college in 1856 much is due. Among the older graduates appear the names of Messrs. Frederick A. Cockrane, Alpheus P. Sharp, William S. Thomp- son, Samuel Rodgers, J. Paris Moore, John W. Read and Christian Stelnhofer. Of these, Messrs. Alpheus P. Sharp and William S. Thompson were not only earnest and active supporters of the college, but were adornments to the profession they represented, as well as graduates of whom their Alma Mater might well be proud. In 1856, at the request of the graduates and a number of Baltimore pharmacists, the president, Mr. George W. Andrews, called a meeting which resulted in the election of thirty-one new members, and a thorough reorganization of the college. The new Board of Trustees established three pro- fessorships: Dr. Lewis Steiner was elected Pro- fessor of Chemistry; Dr. Charles P. Frick, Professor of Materia Medica, and Israel Grahame, Professor of Pharmacy. A course of lectures was given during the season 1857-1858 to a class of intelligent and appreciative students, and the college took a new lease on life, which has since been maintained. Dr. David Stewart gave the lectures in pharmacy during the period 1841-1846. Following the re- organization, the chair of Pharmacy was filled by Professor Israel J. Grahame, who was succeeded by Mr. P. Phillips, an earnest and interesting instructor. The sudden death of Professor Phillips caused the election of J. Paris Moore to the vacancy. Professor Moore was one of the oldest graduates of the college, and was a consistent and zealous worker in behalf of his Alma Mater and in the interest of pharmacy until his death. He continued in the chair of Pharmacy for nine- loen years, when, on resignation of the chair of Materia Medica by Professor Baxley, he was chosen Professor of Materia Medica. Then, on March 8, 1879, Dr. Charles Caspar!, Jr., who was later to HISTORY OF THE play such an important part in the history of the Maryland College of Pharmacy, was elected Pro- fessor of Pharmacy, which chair he continued to fill until his death on October 13, 1917. He was succeeded by Dr. Evander F. Kelly, class of 1902, who held the professorship until January, 1926, when it was taken over by Dr. John C. Krantz, Jr., class of 1919, who held it for one year. Andrew G. DuMez, Ph.G., B.S., M.S., Ph.D., the present Dean, now holds the professorship. Mr. William E. A. Aiken was lecturer in chem- istry from 1841-1846. From 1856 the professor- ship of chemistry was filled for a number of years by Dr. Louis Steiner. On his departure from the city, he was succeeded by Professor Alfred Mayer, who afterward moved to New York. He was, in turn, succeeded by a graduate of the college. Dr. Helsby, who remained a few years and then entered upon the practice of medicine. The chair was then occupied by Dr. De-Rosset, a man of great ability and a popular lecturer. Upon his resignation in 1873, the Board of Trustees elected the able and energetic Professor WlilianT. Simon, Ph.D., M.D., to fill the vacancy. Daniel Base, Ph.D., became asso- ciated with Dr. Simon in 1895, and was elected Professor of Chemistry in 1902. which position he held until his resignation in 1920 to become associated with Hynson, Westcott Dunning. The teaching of the basic courses in chemistry are under the direction of the Department of Chem- istry of the University of Maryland. In 1936 Glenn L. Jenkins, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Professor of Pharma- ceutical Chemistry since 1927, resigned to accept a similar position in the School of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota. Walter H. Hartung, B.A., Ph.D.. who had been research chemist for Sharp Dohme for a decade, is the present head of the department. Messrs. David Stewart and William S. Reese were the lecturers in Materia Medica 1844-1846. Dr. Charles P. Frick was elected Professor of 12