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

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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.

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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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LUCIUS E. SAYRE IT UCIUS E. SAYRE, fonner President of the American Pharma- IL ceutical Association, was bom at Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1848. Ambitious to learn more of the many things he had become acquainted with while working at the drug store of Robeson and Whitaker and to acquire a scientific knowledge of pharmacy, he decided to attend the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy. After graduation from college in 1866 he was employed in various capacities and then entered into the drug business for himself, forming a partnership with his friend and classmate, the late Professor Joseph P. Remington. During these years he was also lecturer in pharmacy at the Women ' s Medical College and quiz-master in materia medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In 1885 the Kansas Legislature, passed an act creating a School of Pharmacy. TTie Board of Regents elected Professor Sayre Dean of the School and Professor of Materia Medica. and of Pharmacy. Professor Sayre was president of the American Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation in 1919, and prior to that time held offices in the various sections of the Association. He had also been the director of drug analysis for the Kansas State Board of Health, was a member of three U. S. P. Revision Committees, and held various other notable positions during his lifetime. Professor Sayre died on July 21, 1925. Lucius E. Sayre was a man of remarkable foresight. He replied to the statement that professional pharmacy must inevitably become sub- servient to commercial interests in the average retail establishment by show- ing that the predominant note in pharmacy was not commercialism in its accepted sense. He deplored the increase in the number of side lines in the modem drug store. He set the precedent for our fight to obtain recognition from the med- ical service of the army in this war by his actions in 1918. Emphasizing that the military service of pharmacy must be made as efficient as possible, he advocated for pharmacists a rank commensurate with their importance.