Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-03-13

lis true that in the past half cen
tury women have considerably en-.
largcd their usefulness, and people
have ceased to wonder at women doc.
tors, lawyers, preachers aud probes
sors, but the registered woman drug
/ gist is still novelty. Ten years ago
the woman druggist was unheard of in
/ Massachus ctts-at least We find no
| mention of her in chief Wadhu's sta
tistics Of a decade ago. The labor
census is taken once in ten years, and
/ in the one to be issued next summer
shall be recorded the debut of women
in the pharmaceutical profession.
There is now law which makes it
necessary tor every druggist to have
certificate, for winch he or she must
be examined at the board of registra.
ton IN pharmacy, whose Office IS in the
state house annex.
The professor Of pharmacy has
most interesting history. The early
settlers in New England retained for
many years the customs of their IN.
/ tive countries, and it Is found in Bos-
ton and other places that tue surgeon
was very often Il barber and the apoth
ecary grocer. Perhaps they were
not the less skIIful In administering
to the health of the colonies because
of the varied and homogeneous avoca-
tons, but we of tue present day would
not care TO have our grocer prepare
our medicines, nor our barber repair
our broken limbs and heal our wounds.
However, as the colonies increased in
wealth and population, division Of
these branches of business occurred,
and, therefor, in the first edition of
of the Boston directory, pub
lished in 1889, we find that
there are IL names put down
as apothecaries and druggists, one
only as an upOthecary and grocer, and
one rs an apothccary and physician.
The names OF these ID mem beers OF the
trade, profession, or what You will,
are worth recalling. They are: Will
liam Clark, npothecary, Marlboro
street; Daniel Greenleaf, apothecary
aud druggist, 81 Cornhill; John Has
kins DR., apothrcary, Orange street !;
Jonathan P. Hall, apothecary and
druggist, Fish street John Joe, apoth-
ecary and druggist, 2 Cornhill; John
Lorlng, apothecary IL COrnhilI Ella
kim Morse, apOthecary and grocer II
Dock square; Nathaniel Philips,
apothecary, SO Orange street; John
Page, apothecury, Union street Oliver
Smith, apothecary and druggist, shop
Cornhill, house Milk street; William
Scolluy, apothecnry and druggist, 6
Cornhill; Amos Windship, physician
and apothecary, Hanover street, near
the mill bridge; Radford Webster,
druggist, three doors below the draw
bridge, Ann street.
These early directories are small and
curious publications. In this first one
Of 1889 there are several names whose
only occupation is that of gentlemen,
but in the directory published in 1900
no gentlemen appear as such. One
result of the war of the revolution
was to destroy all such distinction, at
least as far rs the directories pub
lished since the beginning of the pres
ent century are concerned. In the
directory of 1900 the name of Jane
Loring is given as an apothecary, at
Al Cornhill. To the latter is proba-
bly, due the fame OF being the first
woman apothecary in Boston. While
there has been rapid growth in
the practical side of pharmacy, and
during the lust half of the century
some ample fortunes have been ac.
cumulatcd in its practice, perhaps fal
greater efforts have been given
toward the development of the scien
titic than the purely CONNER.
cial branches of the profes.
sion. In 1928, the Massachusett.
college of pharmacy was instituted
and was Incorporated in 1852, the same
! year in which the American pharma.
cautical association was organized
, In November 1892, F. H. Butler O.
Lowell, secretary of the Massachusetts.
board registration in pharmacy made
careful investigation of the records
and found that from 1885 when the law
5 of registration went into effect, up tC
1892, about 40 women had been regis
tered. Many of these had certificates
granted them from being in the bust
ness at this time, but of course it il
impossible to ascertain definitely i
! they are still engaged in the practice
Since 1892 only eight women hay,
passed the examination and been dull,
, registered by the board.
! And yet the only thing
That really allied