70 COLLEGE OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE

X. COURSE IN PHARMACY

EDWARD KREMERS, DIRECTOR, PROFESSOR OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY

OBJECT. The object of the Course in Pharmacy is to furnish a thor-
oughly scientific foundation for the pursuit of the profession of pharmacy
in all its branches; to prepare students not only to operate drug stores but
to fit them as well for other lines of pharmaceutical activity,—to enter
hospital practice, to take up pharmaceutical manufacturing, to engage in
pharmaceutical research and the teaching of pharmaceutical subjects, or
to enter the government service. The elements of the fundamental natural
sciences, botany, chemistry, and physics, must be studied and their prin-
ciples understood before their application to pharmacy can be rationally
considered. For this reason students in pharmacy are required to pursue
general elementary courses in these fundamental sciences, where they
have the advantage of close association with students in other departments
of the University.

The general study of these fundamental sciences is followed by more or
less specialized courses. General botany is followed by courses in vegetable
histology and the anatomy of drugs; general chemistry, organic and inor-
ganic chemistry, and qualitative and quantitative analysis are followed
by courses in pharmaceutical and plant chemistry. General physics is fol-
lowed by the application of physics to pharmacy.

The practitioner of any profession must be familiar with the literature
of that.profession. To this end he must be able to read the language in
which this literature is written. A pharmacy student must, therefore, not
only have command of the English language, but he must be able to read
other languages, at least French and German. For this reason students
in the four-year pharmacy course are expected to acquire a reading know]l-
edge of both French and German.

COURSES. wo courses in pharmacy are offered, the three-year course
leading to the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy, and the four-year course
leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science, Pharmacy Course. The three-
year course has been carefully planned to accommodate those students
who are unable to remain four years at the University, as well as to
meet the advancing requirements of pharmaceutical education. It has
been so arranged that by a judicious choice of electives, a student, after
graduation from the three-year course, may return to the University and
complete the requirements of the four-year course in one year. The four-
year course was created to accommodate those students who desire to obtain
a general scientific education and to include in their course the pharmaceu-
tical studies, and with the hope of stimulating a broader pharmaceutical
education.

ADVANCED WorRK. Like the sister profession, medicine, pharmacy is
in need not only of the general practitioner, but also of the specialist. For
the preparation necessary to equip such specialists the University offers
graduate courses. Accordingly, the graduate courses in pharmacy make
up an important part of the work of the department, advanced courses and
research facilities in pharmacy, pharmaceutical and plant chemistry, and
pharmacognosy being provided. Graduates who desire to prepare them-
selves as chemists for manufacturing establishments, as analytical, food,
or sanitary chemists, or as bacteriologists will find that the graduate work
in pharmacy, not less than in other departments of the University, offers
excellent opportunities for specialized study and research.