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History of the School of Pharmacy The University of Maryland School of Pharmacy is the third oldest pharmacy school in the country, having been preceded by the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821, and the New York College of Pharmacy in 1829. The national importance of the school is its being a part of a great movement in the pharmaceutical and medical world which had begun before the close of the eighteenth century. This movement was the separation i of the functions of the apothecary from those of the physician, who up to that time had not only written his prescriptions but filled them or had them filled by his apprentice, a practice which paralleled the prevailing European custom. These apprentices and some apothe- caries, by a general, though not concerted movement, founded the profession of pharmacy. The first sign of this movement in Baltimore was the opening of a drug store in 1764 by Alexander Stenhouse, the first to be established in Baltimore. Many other stores were opened in rapid succession, until in 1841 there was a total of seventy-seven drug stores in the city. The more forward looking proprietors of these seventy- seven drug stores, realizing that if the citizens were to be properly served, a broader and more thorough educa- tion and training than could be obtained through em- ployment in a drug store must be provided for their ap- prentices, joined with some of the more progressive physicians of Baltimore City in organizing the Mary- land College of Pharmacy, which was incorporated by a bill passed by the Maryland Legislature on January 27, 1841. The college began to function immediately; however, it is interesting to note that while the first organized classes were held in Nov., 1841 an intelligent interest in the subject of pharmacy already had been manifested in Baltimore late in the eighteenth century. While in many cities the business of drug making was plodding along in the wake of English customs (sometimes tinged with prevailing Indian superstitions) Baltimore received its first impression of higher pharmacy from France.
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