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(Chicago College of Pharmacy
1859-1896)

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CHICAGO, ILL.

VOLUME 23.

JANUARY, 1905.

NUMBER 1.

TH

HE announcement of the death of Dr. Frederick Hoffmann, the founder of this journal, and for thirteen years its able editor, has no doubt reached his friends before this.

Though born and educated in Germany, thirty of the best years of his life were spent in this country and were devoted to the advancement of pharmacy. The value of his services were fully recognized when the American Pharmaceutical Association invited him to prepare the principal address for the jubilee meeting held in Philadelphia in 1902.

He had come across the ocean at that time to read his address and to rejoice with his friends in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of our national association. Full of hope, though feeble in body, he started on his journey only to find that the climatic conditions and the excitement of seeing so many of his friends was more than his weakened constitution was able to bear. The sadness of his leaving before the opening of the sessions was a severe blow to his indomitable mind and a cause of sincere regret to all of his friends.

It is not the intention of the writer to review the life work of the deceased at the present time, nor to laud him for the conspicuous services rendered American pharmacy. The future historian and the generations to come will give him that place in the history of our calling which he deserves and which those, who view the past with a better perspective than we can see it, will gladly grant him.

Without going into the personal relations of the writer to the deceased, it may be not out of place at the present time to call attention to one of the last acts of him whose passing away we mourn.

The review of Schelenz's History of Pharmacy from the pen of Dr. Frederick Hoffmann which appeared in the December number of this journal appears to have been his last literary effort. It reveals the same philosophic bent of mind and the same tendency to grasp details that has always characterized the first editor of this journal.

That this book review would be his last editorial effort Dr. Hoffmann seemed to realize, for he wrote: "Unfortunately work of this kind affects my nerve and heart functions to such an extent that it will have to be the last review of its kind."

How serious he regarded his function as a reviewer becomes apparent from a perusal of this review. He was not satisfied with a general account of the book, but regarded it his duty to correct certain details pertaining to the history of American pharmacy. While the general part of the review appears to have been dictated, for it was not written in his characteristic handwriting, the specific criticisms and the closing paragraph were written by himself.

His short letter, dated November 8, ends with the following statement: "As a result of the overexertion caused by the perusal of the book of Schelenz and because of the unfriendly November weather, I am not feeling well these days."

With the death of Dr. Hoffmann, the vacancy which his retirement from active duties left in the ranks of pharmaceutical journalists is emphasized. From an editorial point of view the thirteen volums of the "Pharmaceutische Rundschau" are unique in pharmaceutical journalism of this country. Neither does it seem probable that this branch of pharmacy is soon to produce another figure of like prominence and power in wielding the pen.