Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood.

  • Wood, George B. (George Bacon), 1797-1879.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Biographical memoir of Franklin Bache, M.D : prepared at the request of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia : read before the college, May 3d and June 7th, 1865 / by George B. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thorough acquaintance with pharmacy both scientific- ally and practically rendered his co-operation desirable, that we should join in preparing a dispensatory, which was then much needed, as there was no work of the kind in the English language, which could be considered as a proper exponent of the pharmacology of the period, or as calculated to meet the peculiar wants of the two professions in this country. The proposal was accepted, and at a meeting in Mr. Smith's house, Oct. 28th, 1830, it was agreed that we should proceed immediately to work; Dr. Bache taking mainly the mineral substances and those resulting from purely chemical processes as his share, while Mr. Smith should deal with the strictly pharmaceutical part, and the vegetable materia medica was allotted to me. We had not proceeded far, when Mr. Smith found that a continuance of the work on his part would be incompatible with his other engagements, and with our assent withdrew, having completed a phar- maceutical preface, and a few other articles, which still stand in the work over his initials. I ventured myself to take up the burden which our friend laid down; and thus it happened, and not from any failure in his own engagement, that Dr. Bache was responsible for only about one-third of the work. It may not be amiss to mention here, as strongly illus- trative at once of his sense of justice and spirit of inde- pendence, that, on my proposal that, whatever might happen to be the proportionate amount of the work produced by each, as determined merely by the number