START UNIVERSITY PLANT
State Institutions Should Manufacture Their Own Chemicals
By Dean L. E. Sayre
A short time ago a bright University student, impressed with the almost insurmountable difficulty of obtaining certain supplies on account, called at the office of the Dean of the School of Pharmacy to say he thought the Universities of the country ought to get together and furnish plain衬衣 to help them by them for the supply of their own chemicals.
SCHEME NOT IMPRACTICABLE
This shows that students are alive to the issues of the day and are thinking along the line of economic problems. The suggestion the student made, whether practical or not, proves a point about the importance of gratifying to the Dean that University environment stimulates original thought on economic problems. The Dean remarked to himself: The scholarly imagination sometimes outruns practical economics; it cannot wait for the plioding problem to be solved in verification, but still it is a wholesome thing to have a vively imagination.
But let us take the suggestion of this student seriously and ask what would be the advantages accruing from the adoption of such a scheme as he proposed? Besides the apparent material advantage there would be multi-form educational benefits. For example, students specializing in manufacturing and industrial chemistry would have open to an ample avenue of immensal and this benefit would be reciprocal, the University would be equally profited by
To those who say such a scheme was wholly impracticable, it may be replied, the same was said of the scheme for text-book supply by the state. Kansas might take the lead in chemical supplies. Whether practical or not, it is a significant fact that the European far more brought back the problem of supplying American industrial and educational needs with American products, of becoming industrially secf reliant. Consciousness of this has brought about the manufacture in this country a Phenol 'made in America' by a synthetic process. This makes four thousand dollars worth, entirely imported, is now met by home production.
PHARMACISTS FAVOR PLAN
To show that pharmacists of United States are fully alive to this subject, may be mentioned that at the last meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association, held in San Francisco, the following resolutions were passed:
Whereas, It is our opinion that the next great stride in our commercial growth will be in the direction of the university represented by the university to practical use in our industries; and Whereas, The factory and the university have been together to the disadvantage of both these many years; therefore be it.
Resolved, By the Scientific Section of the American Pharmaceutical Association, that the United States Chamber of Commerce be requested to call a special meeting of representatives of the leading institutions of learning and of large manufacturing companies for the purpose of considering ways and means of generating and fostering a spirit of closer cooperation between them than has heretofore existed or now exists.
U. S. SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT
A letter from a large manufacturing house contains the following significant phrase: "In the manufacture of chemicals, it seems that all political parties should take up the question of protecting capitol interests in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries." Certainly this much is needed and the time is now ripe for action if we are to make this country self-dependent. Already some of our supplies are becoming exhausted. Fears are now entertained as to the future supply of these essential famine in America and every effort should be made to do with glycerine what has been done with phenol and oxalic acid.
Obu 'aboma made $15,000 profit on football.' this year.
The University of California will issue a book of *dergermate verse.*
A large amount of *Topi corn* was grown on the south slope, of Mount Oread this summer by students, in the department of botany.
Members of the Y. W. C. A. are selling Christmas cards. The money will be used for charitable purposes.
Students of the Los Angeles high schools have been barred from participation in inter-school athletics.
Oberlin College has received an anonymous gift of $100,000.
The state hospital at the University School of Medicine at Rosedale has already cared for several hundred cases of the indigent poor of the state. Through its investigation into malaria, it has treated flies diseases as pellagra and infantile paralysis is it doing direct service for the state and humanity.
Physicians of Kansas have the benefit of the bacteriological and chemical analyses made upon request in the University laboratories in cases of cancerous disease, typhoid, hydrophobia, etc.
The Kansas League of Municipalities is one of the interests of good government. The Kansas that the Exxon department in the city is assisting in every possible way.
SENIORSWRITETHESES
Paper Founded on Original Research Must be Submitted by Pharmics for Degree
Seniors in the School of Pharmacy must write a thesis founded on original research before they can receive their degree.
These researches have to do with every possible phase of the vocation—from the chemical to the commercial. Each student, after consultation with the Dean of the school, will first select his topic, then will prepare an outline of what he proposes to do. He then goes to work, follows the outline decided upon—to which he is strictly held, and when the experimental work is completed, takes his notes and puts into shape for presentation. It happens, someone in the department, the student asks himself a surprisingly larger amount of work than he bargained for, but this makes no difference—he is held to it until the work is completed. In this way the department has been able through student investigation, to contribute, sometimes unexpectedly, valuable material for the pharmacist. A number of cases around him involved the investigations of Kansas students of the School of Pharmacy have been commented upon favorably not only in this country but abroad.
To enumerate the various contributions would be impracticable, but any one who would glance over the files in the Dean's office would be convinced of the value of this work to the student himself, which is, after all, the principal object. Nothing will so thoroughly test the students' ability so much as that which requires him in being the窒佣aries of knowledge he possesses to a focus in research, where he is obliged to do independent work, make his own observations and do his own thinking.
The theses are handed in at the end of the spring term—that time being devoted to the work, but many students commence their research work early and carry it through the whole year.
DRUGGIST THAT WAS
Would Have to be Aeroplaned to Present Methods Says K. U. Graduate
"As the drug store of today has changed appearance as compared with the drug store of twenty years ago, so to even a greater, extent has a change taken place in the personality of the druggist himself," says Crawford. "The ability to be now connected with the Rexall Store of Topeka, Kansas." "The successful druggist of today has to have more than merely a knowledge of drugs, he must be a salesman, an advertiser, a window trimmer, and a good mixer, and he must have a pleasing personality. The student should possess manishap and personality will never become successful as a druggist, no matter how thorough a knowledge of drugs and chemistry he may have.
"I often wonder now the druggist of old would fee," if he could be airplanted to the present up-to-date pharmacy. He would find the leech drawer empty, the shell bottles and the bottles of colored liquids no 'on request'. So many, many changes would confront the old apothecary that he might even suspect that he had gotten in the wrong place.
"The life of the drugrist is not an easy one, by any means," continued Mr. Tully, "he has enough regular duties to keep him busy, but added to these, he must meet the hundred calls a day for the city directory, for stamps, and "general delivery" for mail, and must be smilful and make you fell that you are always welcome in the corner drug store whether you want three cents worth of radium, or an ounce of Hydragyri Cinereum Ung.
Fumes of phosphorus trichlorid drove members of a chemistry class from their laboratory, when a bottle was overturned the other day.
Fifty-three hundred men and women have received degrees from the University since 1873, in which year four were granted.
TEACHING OF PHARMACY
K. U. Graduate Relates Experiences in Educational Side of Profession
By R. H. Needham,'01
During the late summer of 1905 I received an offer to go to a thriving city in the southwest, there to assist in the organization of a pharmacy school under the direction of a medica professor at a university. I accepted the proposition and found, on arriving that I was the only pharmacist among a faculty composed of physicians. Fortunately, the dean of the new school Dr. M. E. Gilmore, was an autumn graduate. Kansas pharmacy school, class of '97.
I was shown my laboratory and class room and informed that with all things provided I was expected to make good. The opening of school brought us twelve junior and one tuskier lady. The latter, I afterwards discovers will or shall lead a riot than to study pharmacy. Eventually he passed and has since done quite well as a stock farmer. My junior们 were a varied lot, including a very bright married woman, who had taken a correspondence course in pharmacy while working as a clerk, and two others whose clothing below were not used to walking on erra firma and shambled about either awkwardly. Inquiry of the clerk of the institution as to their preliminary education brought forth the information that they were all right as they had paid the tuition in full. I took the hint and said no to the suggestion of future recipients must show credentials other than coin of the realm.
A stranger in a strange land, I learned very shortly that teaching pharmacy in Kansas could not be done in a like manner in the southwest. Equipment was meagre and no institutions and people were different, with only a few good high schools accessible. District boards conducted examinations when and in such manner as suited best. Some boards were stricter, others law. The applicants were provided as the applicants were required to be qualified in order to pass. A common school education was all that could be required until a pharmacy law was passed, creating a state board of pharmacy, allowing us to raise entrustment requirements to two years of high school work.
EXPERIENCED MANY IMPFICULTIES Other difficulties soon appeared. I was expected to teach everything in the curriculum except chemistry, materia medica and bacteriology. To save expense, I was to teach iron treatment, to equip the sophomore medics and pharmacy to the freshmen. The medical students were about as well qualified for their work as the pharmacy students. In spite of discouragements and hard work I got through the year better than I expected. The next fall brought a larger number of teachers and better prepared. My teaching work was increased in the medical school and still no assistance provided until the third year when I was given an assistant in pharmacy.
I presume that my willingness to do so much work in two different departments was detrimental to the best teaching in pharmacy. But of work there was plenty and tew to do it for me, but I didn't want, the study of medicine was taken up, which gave me a very decided advantage, but it proved rather detrimental in the end as I was called upon all too frequently to take up work in other branches that did not pertain to pharmacy. The student knew that my last year this place was spent entirely in the medical school.
Scripture tells us, "Man cannot serve two masters." In my case it was partly true. I found a detracting influence produced by medical environment. I have remained true to it. Having spent ten years in the work, beginning under such adverse conditions, I have seen the realization of some of my ideals and ambitions in the teaching of pharmacy. While no great success was attained, still in memory I can see many of them in action. For the goal of making a number of whom are making a success of their calling. But sweetter to me are the friendships that were formed in the work, the individual assistance rendered students and the consciousness that developed in the development and elevation of pharmacy in the great southwest.
The month of November was the third warmest in the history of the United States.
The Engineers have issued a book of college songs, containing several that have been current for a generation, which have never been set to music.
We have a good assortment of ice cream and cookies. Special flavors made to match the season's specials.
The laboratory for drug analysis at the University touches the life of every Kansan: it is testing daily spices, coffees, teas, linseed oil and turpentine; crude drugs, patent medicines, habit producing drugs, thus guarding the health and life of the state.
The sanitary engineers at the University, working in connection with the state board of health, are giving their services, full time, to the inspection agencies, and sewage disposal plants in various towns and cities.
Through its work on Kansas insect problems, begun in 1872, the University has returned in economic value to the state an amount often estimated as high as the entire cost of the institution and its foundation.
A University physician is employed to look after the health of the students. A hospital for the care of students in emergency cases is maintained on the campus.
UTILIZE BY-PRODUCTS
By Hydrogenation Waste Oils Are Converted Into Marketable Commodities
Hydrogenation or the hardening of oils has been one of the scientific questions that the laboratory of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Cambridge does. If the success of the experiments is as great as Dean L. E. Sayre believes it will be, it will prove a great boon to the manufacturers of soap and butter substitutes and utilize the by-products in many large manufacturing plants.
Hydrogenation is simply the introduction of hydrogen, into the molecular structure of oil. The oil is changed chemically so that its percentage of hydrogen is increased. A special situation is needed for hydrogenation in hydrazine for which a number of patients have been taken out in Washington.
Hydrogenation of by-products may become of great commercial benefit to the manufacturers. The addition of less than one per cent of hydrogen to oil makes a compound with about the same consistency as lard, and would be a valuable addition to the kitchen.
Dean Sayre who has made an exhaustive study of this problem believes that the development of this industry will finally produce a substance which will take the place of such butter substitutes as peanut nutter and other articles of this nature used for dietetic purposes.
Another one of the ways in which hydrogenation may develop into a commercial asset is in the manufacture of soaps, especially those used for cosmetics. They can be made from fats such as lard and animal fats, considerable difficulty is experienced in perfuming them. But if a hardened fat can be made from a cheap oil, a process of hydrogenation can be used to remove the disagreeable odor and will make a solid body which does not neutralize or nullify the perfume.
Even now, with the process of hydrogenation at its present stage of development, it is possible to take a bad smelling oil and solidify it through hydrogenation, removing the disagreeable fishy odors.
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Some Facts Relative to Phillips' Antiphlogistic The Red Brand Denver Mud Compound
In the past few years Surgery and Antiseptic dressing have made wonderful advancements. The laity have become more and more conversant with self treatment and first aid in injury. The old Flax Seed and Broad-leaf dressings are scarcely ever used by the up-to-date well read physician. Medical and scientific authorities have discovered through microscopic and bacteriological research that the old time Flax Seed poulice was even at ease to germ-filled applications that could be devised to be placed upon open wounds, cuts, burns, ulcers, etc., from the very fact that Flax-Seed meal is fattening to insect life of every character. The physician of today prefers a blood poison to prevent blood poison. It is not a patent medicine as the formula is on every package. It is non-poisonous, non-irritating anti-septic absorbent, (not drawing) poultice, reducing temperature and relieving inflammation by absorbing the water from the tissues, preventing it from form a watery blister under the skin.
When Denver Mud Compound is applied it absorbs the water excludes the air and quickly relieves the pain. When applied to spruals, boils, felons, bee-stings, etc., it relieves the throbbing pain at once. When there is a contused condition the flesh becomes dark (as in the case of a black eye) and the skin becomes rough. It can be applied thick and covered with parafine paper, this is preferable to cotton or cloth bandages as the paper will not absorb the glycerine.
When parafine paper is used it is not necessary to bandage as it will remain in place from 18 to 20 hours on any part of the body.
Denver Mud Compound might be called a healing ointment without grease. It is soluble in water and can easily be washed off. Being composed of potassium salts with Kaolin, Oil Peppermint, Boric Acid, Menthol, Thentol, Methyl-Salicate and other antiseptics. It does not become dry and hard when standing in the can like some of the cheapest ointments that contain very little if any glycerine.
Denver Mud Compound is always the same, soft and smooth, spreads easily, cold or hot, satisfaction is assured whenever it is used. Will not deteriorate or become ramsal and is an antiseptic antiphosphitic dressing.
Care is taken in the manufacture of Red Band Denver Mud Compound, using only high grade materials, it is put up in air light tin cans which are sealed in an attractive carton, so that it can always be relied upon, is prepared only by the Denver Mud Chemical Company, Kansas City, Mo.
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