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

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DEMS MESSAGE You, who are about to complete your formal education in pharmacy, will be graduated in one of the most critical periods in your country ' s history. For the duration of the war and in the years immediately following, the health and welfare of our citizens will depend largely on the leadership exhibited by men and women educated and trained for the professions. I congratulate you upon having completed your undergraduate studies at a time when the opportunities for service to your country are so numerous and comfjelhng. Maryland tradition implies that you will avail yoursel ves of these of»portunities to the end that all man- kind will be benefited. With best wishes for your success and hajjpiness, I am „ Sincerely yours, ANDREW GROVmi DUMEZ, Ph ., B.S., M.S., Ph.D. G DuMez, Dean. Dean of the School of Pharmacy

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HARRY CLIFTON BYRD, B.S., LL.D., D.Sc. President of the University of Maryland None of the component units of the University of Maryland has a more important function to perform in our society than the School of Pharmacy. The science of medicine originally was based on the concoction from herbs, metals, and other substances, of remedies for ills, pains, and injuries. The health and welfare of mankind has always depended a good deal on the success of such efforts. From the first day when a human being found that a lily had properties which would allay fevers, and perhaps long before that, the science of medicine has progressed; but until this day its success still depends on abiliay to concoct from various materials the medicines without which medical practice would not be able to achieve its goals. Now this branch of the science of medicine is highly specialized under the title of pharmacy, and in the schools of pharmacy, as irf the School of Pharmacy of the University of Maryland, men must look for leadership in this field. Therefore, those students that are attending the School of Pharmacy and who graduate from that School have a real responsibility to society. I believe that they will fulfill that responsibility ably, efficiently, and with honor to themselves and to the University of Maryland. Sincerely, H. C. BYRD President

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C I9(R ixgynnfAa tube inatec i t t tri ctK HftktOi ano trcdcetl) ot p bcrrure t p;op;ptn p( r: tKe,d)ctDi)4ctx (ecoUcO an i cctatl. Book I Vjl MONG the early products of the printing press are a J — IL number of books dealing with herbs. These books, called herbals, in addition to describing the various herbs, detail their medicinal properties, and were therefore widely used by physicians and pharmacists as well as by laymen. Here reproduced is the title-page of An Herbal, printed in 1525 by Richard Banckes, the first book devoted exclusively to herbs to be printed in England of which any copy is known to exist. Judging by the number of editions which followed that printed by Banckes, it enjoyed a popularity not shared by any other English herbal. Agnes Arber considers it a better book than the Crete Herball printed in 1526 (Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution, Cambridge, 1938, p. 41), and Eleanour Sinclair Rohde also prefers it to the Crete Herball because of its greater charm [The Old English Herbals, London, 1922, p. 55) . A new edition, the first since ca. 1560, was published in 1941 by Scholars ' Fac- similes and Reprints.