Educ. dept. Еслис ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM WASHINGTON, D. C. ᎪᎢ 5 CENTS PER COPY EDUCATION, EV PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION. By WORTLEY F. RUDD, in collaboration with P. F. FACKENTHALL. CONTENTS. The beginnings of pharmaceutical education-The birth of prerequisite legislation Classes of pharmacy schools-The American conference of pharmaceutical faculties The United States Pharmacopeia National Formulary and the Food and Drugs Act-Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association--The period of 19181920-Attitude of the trade journals toward progress in pharmaceutical educationThe 1920 United States Pharmacopeial Convention. THE BEGINNINGS OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION. Any history of pharmaceutical education during the two years 1918 to 1920 would be wholly incomplete without a review of the influences which have brought about the conditions during the period under consideration. In pharmacy, as in medicine and law, the preceptorial system largely prevailed for the first century of pharmacy in the United States. Previous to 1851 there were but 3 teaching schools of pharmacy in existence; and only one, the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, had sufficient life to maintain itself as á bona fide educational institution. In 1873 there were 11 teaching institutions in active operation, located in Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, Baltimore, St. Louis, Boston, Chicago, Louisville, Washington, Nashville, and San Francisco, with an attendance of approximately 600 students.1 The organization of these schools was due largely to the educational stimulus disseminated by the American Pharmaceutical Association, which had been organized in 1852, and to the various State pharmaceutical associations, which at that time were beginning to exert considerable influence. At the twenty-first annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Albert E. Ebert, in his presidential address, thus commented upon the organization of pharmaceutical schools: Although it is by no means desirable to multiply these schools to an unlimited extent, as this would diminish their usefulness by dividing their strength, yet the time is not far distant when it will seem necessary that each State shall possess such an educational organization, as good effects of such institutions can not be questioned in their relation to the public welfare, and therefore should be fostered by the several States where such schools are established.1 Proc. Amer. Phar. Assoc., 1873, p. 52. 54112°-21 542819 3 |
