PROSPECTUS 
OF THE 
California Colley of 1r({oriuatu. 
J)EPAF(TMENT op pHAF^MACY, 
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. 
THIRD AJSnSTTJjbJLi SESSIOlsT 
1875, 
COMMENCING MARCH 10th. 
SAN FRANCISCO : 
H. S. CROCKER & CO., PRINTERS. 
1875. CALIFORNIA 
COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. 
Incorporated Aug. 7th., 1872. The California College of Pharmacy being affiliated with the Uni- 
versity of California, forms one of the Technical Schools contemplated 
by the framers of the “ Organic Act” of the University, each of which is 
designed to be separate and distinct as regards its peculiar sphere and the 
work appertaining thereto, but connected by a tie similar to that uniting the 
States of the Union, occupying in relation to one another distinct and in- 
dependent positions, yet connected through the general government of the 
University. 
According to the conditions of the agreement, the management of the 
Department of Pharmacy rests with those best qualified to judge of its 
requirements, i. e., practical pharmacists, to whom, also, is entrusted the 
responsible task of providing capable and practicable persons as instructors. 
It will be seen upon reference to the form of agreement, that the position 
of our school as a College of Pharmacy, is maintained in every respect. 
Extract from the “ Organic Act ” of the University of California : 
“Section 8. The Board of Regents may affiliate with the University, and make an integral 
part of the same, and incorporate therewith any incorporated college of medicine, or of law, or 
other special course of instruction now existing or which may hereafter be created, upon such 
terms as to the respective corporations may be deemed expedient; and such college or colleges 
thus affiliated, shall retain the control of their own property, with their own Board of 
Trustees, and their own Faculties and Presidents of the same, respectively, and the students of 
those colleges, recommended by the respective Faculties thereof, shall receive from the University, 
the degrees of those colleges, provided,, however, that the President of the University shall be, 
ex officio, a member of the Faculty of each and every college of the University, and President 
of such Faculty.” 
Extract from the ‘ ‘ Organic Act! ’ of the University of California : 
“ Sec. 18. The immediate government and discipline of the several colleges, shall be entrusted 
to their separate Faculties and the resident professors of the same, each of which shall have 
its own organization, regulate the affairs of its own college, etc., etc." * * * 
* ‘ In accordance with the Organic Act of the University of California, the 
California College of Pharmacy is hereby affiliated with the University, upon 
the following basis : 
‘ * The College will maintain its own Board of Trustees, and will continue 
to hold its own property as if this affiliation had not been agreed upon. 
‘ ‘ The College will also appoint its own professors and establish its own 
course of instruction, subject to the general approbation of the Regents of 
the University. 
* ‘ The University will confer the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy, upon 
candidates recommended by the Board of Examiners of the College, and 
approved by a committee to be designated by the Regents. 
“ This agreement may be canceled by mutual consent, at any time, or by 
the withdrawal of either party to it, after twelve months’ notice to the other 
party.” 
AGREEMENT. i875- 
*PffICER3 OF THE jjOULEQE. 
President : 
WM. T. WENZELL. 
Vice-President : 
JOHN CALVERT. 
Secretary : 
EMLEN PAINTER. 
Treasurer : 
WM. GEARY. 
JiOy\F(D OF JRU3TEE3. 
Wm. Geary, 
John Calvert, 
Wm. T. Wenzell, 
Wm. M. Searby, 
G. G. Burnett, 
Emlen Painter. FACULTY. 
Peesident : 
Daniel C. Gilman, M. A., Pres. Univ. Cal. 
JOHN CALVEET, 
Peofessob of Phaemacy. 
WM. M. SEAEBY, 
Peofessob of Mateeia Medica. 
WM. T. WENZELL, 
Peofessob of Chemistey. 
HEEMANN BEHE, M. D„ 
Peofessob of Botany. 
TEXT BOOKS 
U. S. Dispensatory and U. S. Pharmacopoeia. 
Pereira’s Materia Medica.—Ed. by H. C. Wood. 
Fownes’ Chemistry. 
Attfield’s Chemistry. 
Eoscoe’s Chemistry. 
Gray’s Botany. jjOLLEQE Of Pharmacy, 
The California College of Pharmacy has entered on the third year oT 
its existence, and the Trustees have to congratulate the members and 
students on the progress which has been made during the past session. 
The reports of the officers show that the institution is in a very satisfac- 
tory condition. The several chairs of instruction are filled by able, 
practical men, with ample experience in the different departments over 
which they preside. 
The class of 1874 consisted of twenty-three students. The attend- 
ance was good, and the interest manifested was creditable to the 
students, as well as gratifying to the Professors. 
In presenting this Circular to the Pharmacists of the Pacific Coast, 
the Board of Trustees would remind them that Pharmaceutical Educa- 
tion is a matter in which they are all interested. The future status of 
our body depends on the success which attends our present efforts. The 
public sentiment of to-day demands a higher degree of proficiency in 
our calling than is found in the generality of our Drug stores. To 
command the respect and confidence of the community, our young men 
must qualify themselves for the position they assume to fill; and the 
Trustees appeal to the Apothecaries of the Pacific States to give their 
countenance and good will to the College, which is now providing facili- 
ties for our young men to acquire a theoretical and practical knowledge 
of our profession. And they further urge upon all who can make the 
necessary arrangements, to afford their clerks and apprentices an oppor- 
tunity of attending the Lectures, as well as a short time each day for 
study. The Trustees believe that employers will, in most cases, be 
amply compensated for the small sacrifice thus made, by the increased 
efficiency and devotedness of their employes. 
As yet, no rule for a preliminary examination (before matriculation) 
has been adopted by the College, but as the time is not distant when 6 
pharmaceutical examinations will be the rule, the Trustees would urge 
on Pharmacists the desirability of taking for apprentices such youths 
only as have had the advantage of a liberal education. If a knowledge 
of the elements of Latin have not been acquired, the candidate should 
lose no time in making himself sufficiently familiar with that language 
to enable him to read prescriptions and pharmacopoeias. 
And the Trustees further wish it to be made known that the students 
cannot reap the full benefit of the lectures, nor acquit themselves cred- 
itably at the examinations of this College without such necessary edu- 
cation. 
Legislative enactments relating to Pharmacy have been in force for 
several years in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bos- 
ton, St. Louis and San Francisco, which compel all persons commencing 
business to show that they are properly qualified. 
The College is now permanently located in Toland Hall, a fine 
building belonging to the University of California. The accommoda- 
tions, consisting of Lecture-room, Laboratory, Library and Museum, are 
abundant for our present wants, and well adapted to the purposes of 
the College. 
The plan of instruction for the coming session will embrace the 
branches of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany and Materia Medica. It is 
the design of the Trustees to furnish such a course as will give the stu- 
dents a knowledge of the general principles of the sciences taught, 
and show their special and practical application to pharmaceutical 
requirements. 
The professors will assist the students in their studies by occasional 
reviews of the ground gone over, thus giving opportunity for the correc- 
tion of misapprehensions and erroneous conclusions, and stimulating 
them to exertion by setting up a generous emulation. The expe- 
rience of the past has shown that in this way the interest of the students 
is greatly increased, and many of their difficulties are removed. 
LECTURE TERM. 
The regular term for 1875 will commence on Tuesday, March 
10th, and terminate in September. In order that students may 
derive full benefit from the lectures, they should be present at the 
opening of the session. 
The lectures will be given on Tuesday and Friday evenings of 
each week, at Toland Hall, Stockton street, between Chestnut and 
Francisco streets. 7 
PHARMACY. 
The lectures will be delivered on Tuesday of each week at 
7.30 P. M. 
The principal subjects are as follows : Weights and measures of 
the U. S. and British Pharmacopoeias and the metrical system. Spe- 
cific gravity, thermometers, drug powdering, sifting, solution, filtration, 
maceration, percolation, re-percolation, evaporation, distillation. 
The Galenical and Chemical preparations of the U. S. Pharmaco- 
poeia. Extemporaneous pharmacy, including construction of formulas, 
the art of combining medicinal agents, pills, mixtures, ointments, 
suppositories, plasters, etc. 
CHEMISTRY. 
The lectures will be delivered on Friday of each week at 7.30 p. m. 
This course will present a systematic study of theoretical chemistry, 
according to the latest views of chemical philosophers. 
Physics will be dwelt upon sufficiently for the illustration of the gen- 
eral properties of matter—the forces of gravitation, adhesion, and 
cohesion. 
Caloric in its relation to chemistry will be treated of. 
This will be followed by the laws of chemical affinity, the electro- 
chemical theory, symbols, nomenclature, and the laws of chemical 
combination. The molecular theory and the principals of crystal- 
lography will be fully illustrated, the former by graphic symbols and 
diagrams, the latter by models. 
A full and concise course of the chemistry of the non-metallic and 
metallic bodies is next taken up, comprising the more important 
elements, and those of special interest to the pharmacal student. 
The course to conclude with organic chemistry, in which the chem- 
istry of the alcohols, ethers, organic acids, sugars, glucose, gums, starch, 
glucosides, alkaloids, &c. will receive their due share of attention. 
MATERIA MEDICA. 
The lectures will be delivered on Tuesday of each week at 8.30 p. m. 
The lectures on Materia Medica are devoted to those substances, 
chiefly of vegetable origin, which are used in medicine, and which are 
included under the general designation of drugs. 8 
These articles are treated of in a systematic manner, notice being 
taken of the sources from which they are derived, their natural and 
commercial history, principal constituents and remedial qualities. The 
ordinary and toxical doses, with antidotes to the latter, receive careful 
consideration. 
The students are instructed as to the proper time for collecting the 
various vegetable products, as well as the best modes of preserving 
them. Attention is called to their physical properties as met with in 
trade, and to the leading characteristics of each drug. Substitutions, 
adulterations, and natural impurities, with the methods of detecting the 
same, are duly considered, as also the distinguishing features observed 
in articles of superior and inferior quality. 
BOTANY. 
Friday evening of each week at 8.30 p. m. at Toland Hall, and on 
Monday of each week at 1 p. m. at the hall of Academy of Sciences. 
The lectures include structural, functional and systematic botany, and 
geography of plants. Excursions are made into the country on alter- 
nate weeks during the session, for the purpose of collecting and study- 
ing indigenous plants, under the direction of the Professor. 
CONDITIONS OF GRADUATION. 
1. The candidate must be of good moral character, and have at- 
tained the age of twenty-one years. 
2. He must have attended two full courses of the lectures given by 
this College, or one of those given by some other College of Pharmacy 
whose conditions of graduation are based upon the like term of service, 
and the final course in this college. 
3. Written evidence of the four years service required by the Con- 
stitution, must be deposited with the Secretary of the College upon 
applying for examination. 
4. He shall at the same time deposit with the same officer, an 
original dissertation upon some article of the Materia Medica, some 
Pharmaceutical Process, or the details of an analysis of some chemical 
substance which must have been performed by himself. This manu- 
script must be in his own handwriting, and be executed in a neat and 
legible manner. 
5. He must be recommended jointly by the Professors and the 
Examining Board. 9 
6. Such recommendation must be approved by the Board of 
Trustees. 
7. Examinations shall only take place at the close of each course. 
FEES. 
Lecture Ticket (for the season) $50.00 
Matriculation Ticket (paid only once) 2.50 
Diploma Fee 10.00 
The matriculation and lecture tickets must be obtained of the 
Secretary at the beginning of the session. 
Members and graduates of the College, and students who have 
attended two sessions in the college, are admitted free to the 
lectures. 
Medical students, or others not intending to pursue pharmacy as 
their avocation, will be admitted to the lectures, or any one of the 
courses they may desire to attend, by paying the matriculation fee, 
and that of the chair or chairs of instruction, and such students will 
enjoy the same advantages as regular students of pharmacy, except 
that they will not be eligible to the degree of graduate in pharmacy. 
CLERKS AND STUDENTS. 
Drug clerks and students on coming to the city, and those out 
of employment here, who are desirous of obtaining situations, may 
call upon the Secretary and register their names. 
Young men coming to the city to attend lectures, should bear in 
mind that they cannot expect to receive much compensation whilst 
attending lectures and learning the business. 
Pharmacists in want of assistants are informed that they can con- 
sult the list of applicants for situations, and are requested to notify 
the Secretary when vacancies occur in their establishments. 
Any further information may be obtained by addressing 
EMLEN PAINTER, 
Sec’y Cal. College of Pharmacy, 
S. E. cor. Clay and Kearny Streets, 
San Francisco. CLASS OF 1874. 
Names. Nativity. Preceptors. 
ANTHES, JOHN San Francisco. H. B. Shaw. 
BACON, GASTON E. Paris, France. Painter & Calvert. 
BASFORD, W. L. San Francisco. H. P. Wakelee. 
BUSWELL, E. G. Troy, N. Y. Redinqton, Hostetter & Co. 
CLINTON, 0. A. Dublin, Ireland. 
DONOVAN, JOS. New Bedford, Mass. J. G. Steele. 
EVANS, THOS. A. Bristol, Eng. A. Evans. 
GIBSON, JOHNB. Philadelphia, Pa. Redington, Hostetter & co. 
GOLDMAN, B. Bavaria. 
GRAHAM, T. D. Liverpool, Eng. G. G. Burnett. 
HARRIS, H. R. Santa Clara, Cal. J. W. Angell. 
HEANEY, JOHN Philadelphia, Pa. W. T. Wenzell. 
HOWELL, JOSEPH New York. Chas. Langley & Co. 
KAHN, ADOLPHE Brooklyn, N. Y. Alfred Gros. 
LANE, J. H. Plymouth, Eng. Wm. Simpson. 
MEYER, F. H. Baden, Germany. P. Greichten. 
MEYER, R. New York. E. Abramson. 
McLEAN, F. P. Lebanon, N. H. Judson & Co. 
PRICE, W. E. Kingston, Can. Painter & Calvert. 
SEVERIO, FRANK Tuolumne Co. Cal. W. E.' Mayhew. 
SPROUL, W. E. Maine. A. M. Kurtz. 
TIBBETTS, L. C. Pillsbury, Pa. J. R. Gates & Co. 
YOUNG, JOHN M. Montreal, Can. W. M. Searby. APPENDIX. 
AN ACT 
To Regulate the Practice of Pharmacy in the City and County or 
San Francisco. Passed by the California Legislature, Session of 
1871-2, and Approved March 28, 1872. 
The People of the State of California, Bepresented in Senate and Assembly 
do enact as follows : 
Section One. From and after the first day of June, a. d. eighteen hun- 
dred and seventy-two, it shall be unlawful for any person, unless a registered 
pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist within the meaning of this 
Act, to open or conduct any pharmacy or store for retailing, dispensing, or 
compounding medicines or poisons, except as hereinafter provided. 
Sec. Two. Any person in order to be registered must be either a graduate 
in pharmacy, a licentiate in pharmacy, a practicing pharmacist, or a practic- 
ing assistant pharmacist. 
Sec. Three. Graduates in pharmacy must be such as have had four years 
experience in stores where presciptions of medical practitioners are com- 
pounded, and each must have obtained a diploma from a college of pharmacy 
within the United States, or from an authorized foreign institution or 
Examining Board. Licentiates in pharmacy are such as have had four 
years experience in stores where prescriptions of medical practitioners are 
compounded, and shall have passed an examination before the Board of 
Pharmacy; also such foreign pharmacists as shall present satisfactory 
credentials or certificates of their attainments to the Board of Pharmacy. 
Practicing pharmacists are such persons only as at or prior to the passage 
of this Act have kept and continue to keep open stores in the City and 
County of San Francisco for compounding and dispensing of the prescrip- 
tions of medical practitioners, and for the sale of medicines and poisons, 
Practicing assistants in pharmacy are such persons of not less than eighteen 
years of age as at or prior to the passage of this Act have had two years 
experience in the compounding of the prescriptions of medical practitioners 
in the store of a practicing pharmacist, and shall furnish satisfactory 12 
evidence of the same to the Board of Pharmacy. Persons of less than 
eighteen years of age, or less than four years experience, are as junior assist- 
ants or apprentices to be under the immediate supervision of a registered 
pharmacist or assistant pharmacist until they have become graduates or 
licentiates in pharmacy. 
Sec. Form. The members of the California Pharmaceutical Society resid- 
ing in San Francisco shall, during the month of May, eighteen hundred and 
seventy-two, and every third year thereafter, during the month of May, elect 
five of the most competent pharmacists of San Francisco to serve as a Board 
of Pharmacy. The members of this Board shall, within thirty days after their 
appointment, individually take and subscribe before the County Clerk, an 
oath, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties prescribed by this 
Act. They shall hold office for the term of three years, and until their suc- 
cessors are appointed and qualified, and in each case of vacancy the said 
Board of Examiners shall select from three nominees elected at a meeting of 
the said Society. The Board shall organize for the transaction of business 
in the City of San Francisco by the election for the whole term of President 
and Secretary. Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. 
They shall meet at least quarterly, and have power to make by-laws for the 
proper fulfillment of their duties. The duties of this Board shall be to 
transact all business pertaining to the legal regulations of the practice of 
pharmacy and the retailing of poisons, and to examine and register all 
pharmacists. All persons applying for examination shall pay to the Secretary 
a fee of five dollars ; and on passing the examination, shall be furnished with 
a certificate signed by the President and the Examiners. 
Sec. Five. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a book of regis- 
tration open at some convenient place, of which due notice shall be given 
through the public press, in which shall be entered, under the supervision of 
the Board, the names, titles, qualifications, and places of business of all per- 
sons coming under the provisions of this Act; and it shall be the duty of all 
such persons to appear before the Board or its Secretary within a period of 
thirty days after its organization, and be registered. The fee for the first 
registration of graduates, licentiates, and practicing pharmacists, shall be 
two dollars; for assistants, one dollar. It shall be the duty of every person 
registered to have his registration renewed every year in the month of 
January, the fee for which shall be one dollar, and upon changing his place 
of business or engagement, to notify the Secretary within thirty days. The 
Secretary shall make all necessary alterations in the register, and notify all 
persons, on or befere the tenth day of Februray, who shall not have renewed 
their registration, for which notification the Secretary shall receive a fee of 
fifty cents; and in case no answer is received within fourteen days, such name 
shall be erased, unless an excuse satisfactory to the Board be presented; 
provided, always, that the said name shall be restored on payment of fifty 
dollars to the Secretary of the Board within one year. The Secretary shall 
give receipts for all moneys received by him, and pay said moneys to the 
Treasurer of the California Pharmaceutical Society7, taking his receipt 
therefor. The salary of the Board of Pharmacy and of the Secretary, shall 13 
be fixed by the Board of Directors of the California Pharmaceutical Society, 
to be paid out of the registration fees and fines. 
Sec. Six. From and after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and 
seventy-two, every registered pharmacist who shall knowingly, intentionally, 
and fraudulently adulterate or cause to be adulterated, any drugs, chemicals, 
or medicinal preparation, shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 
viction, shall be fined fifty dollars in the first, one hundred dollars in the 
second, and on conviction in the third case, his name shall be erased from 
the register. 
Sec. Seven. And be it further enacted, That on and after the first day of 
June, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, it shall be unlawful for any person 
in the City and County of San Francisco, to retail any poisons enumerated 
in Schedules “A” and “B,” appended to this Act, without distinctly 
labeling the bottle, box, vessel, or paper, and wrapper, or cover in which said 
poison is contained, with the name of the article, the word “Poison,” and 
the name and place of business of the seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any 
person to sell or deliver any poison enumerated in Schedules “A” and “ B ” 
to any person, unless on due inquiry it is found that the person is aware of 
its poisonous character, and that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose. 
Nor shall it be lawful for any person to sell or deliver any poison included 
in Schedule “A,” without, before delivering to the buyer, making or causing 
to be made an entry in a book kept for that purpose only, stating the date of 
sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the name and quantity of the 
poison sold, the purpose for which it is stated by the purchaser to be 
required, and the name of the dispenser ; said book to be always open for 
inspection by the proper authorities, and to be preserved for at least five 
years. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of 
poisons (in not unusual doses or quantities) upon the prescriptions of prac- 
titioners of medicine. 
Sec. Eight. Be it provided that nothing contained in the foregoing 
section shall apply to, or interfere with the business of any practitioner of 
medicine who does not keep open shop for the dispensing and retailing of 
medicines and poisons, nor with the business of wholesale dealers. 
Sec. Nine. Any person who shall attempt to procure registration for 
himself or for any other person under this Act, by making or causing to be 
made, any false representations, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hun- 
dred dollars. Any registered pharmacist who shall permit the compounding 
and dispensing of prescriptions of medical practitioners in his store by 
persons not registered, except by junior assistsnts under the direct super- 
vision of registered persons, or any person not registered who shall keep 
open shop for the retailing or dispensing of medicines and poisons, or who 
shall fraudulently represent himself to be registered, and any registered 
person who shall fail to comply with the regulations of this Act in regard to 
the retailing and dispensing of poisons, shall for every such offense be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, be fined fifty 
dollars. Sec. Ten. All persons registered under this Act shall be exempt and free 
from all jury duty in the City and County of San Francisco. 
Sec. Eleven. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of 
this Act, in so far as they so conflict are hereby repealed. 
SCHEDULE “A.” 
Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red 
precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, 
strychnia, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essen- 
tial oil of bitter almonds, opium and its preparations, except paregoric and 
other preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the ounce. 
SCHEDULE “B.” 
Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, 
ergot, cotton root, cantharides, digitalis, and their pharmaceutical prepara- 
tions, croton oil, choloroform, chloral hydrate, sulphate of zinc, sugar of 
lead, mineral acids, carbolic acid, and oxalic acid. 
j3oAI\D OF j^HAF^MACY. 
JOHN CALVERT, President, 
W. T. WENZELL, Secretary 
WM. SIMPSON, 
MAX TSCHIRNER, 
J. G. STEELE. 
Books for registration will be open after June 1st, 1872, at the office of the 
Secretary, corner of Stockton and Market streets, San Francisco.