Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-09
TWENTY-lWONEW DRUGGISTS
College of Pharmacy Graduates Second
Glass for the Year.
DR.. MUIRHEAD MAKES ADDRESS ON DRUGS
Eject of Medicine on the Body and
Part the PhRrmRcist Plays in
Caring for His suffering
Fellowman.

A class OF twenty-five was graduated
from the Omaha College of Pharmacy
Tuesday night, Of which twenty are young
men and two young women.
The exercises were held in the main room
OF the college at Seventeenth and Farnam
streets and were largely attended by
friends and relatives of the graduates. The
program opened with a piano duet by
the Misses Turner, which was preceded
with a short invocation by Edmund Thorpe,
dean of the college.
DR.. A. L. Muirhead of the faculty of
Creighton Medical college delivered the
address to the graduates, His address was
of a generally scientific character treat
ing of the properties Of drugs and their
effects upon living organisms. He said in
part;
Your work is the preparation of drugs
for the administering OF medicine. In the
tice the idea prevailed that medicine acted
in some mysterious way and by some
mysterious force, and was absorbed by the
prevails among many. Yet as truth there
is but little mystery in the active effects
OF drugs. The many so called blood puri-
fiers are not absorbed by the blood nor do
they ever come in contact with II, but
on the other hand pass out through the
alimentary canal The effect of the ex-
ternal application of many external prepa-
rations is to destroy the tissue. Certain
chemicals have an affinity for each other.
Choral hydrate acts upon the nerve cells;
cocaine upon the sensory nerve hbres ana
not on the motor power nerves. some
drugs have an affinity for the motor nor nerves, @ r
gans, and 1t is by a combination OF these
that certain effects are produced They
increase or decrease the normal functons
OF the organs, but cannot add to them. The
best that we can do is TO aid Mother Ma
ture, for we cannot supplant her.
Credit Due 90 others.
Some drugs have no effect whatever upon
the organs OF the body but affect certain
functions, such as quinine. Chloroform ana
ether affect the heart action, and strych-
When some new fad OF mesmerism is &C;
complished bearing upon some physlCal
| ailment it is heralded abroad as mar
! faithful work of the physician, aided by
the equally faithful mother ana nurse re-
ceives little or no recognition; .,. -
Pharmacists should educate the people In
the laws of health as do the physicians;
| Pharmacy Is a scientific occupation ana
| its yotaries should keep in closest touch
with ali modern Improvements and dts
| coveries that they may become more EN-
cient. There are rich rewards IN store tor
those who wrest from MotheT, nature her
problems that mean the welfare OF our
! feilowkind
Edward MIchal, the valedictorian OF the
class, followed DR.. Muirhead in an inter
/ esting essay, after which Dean Thorpe
| addressed the class and bestowed upon
them their diplomas. and the degree OF
| graduates in pharmacy. He gave a short
| history of the organization OF the college
showing how It had grown in four years
| from a membership of six students to
eighty during the present year.
Part of Creighton University.
The College OF Pharmacy has during the
past month become a department OF the
Creighton University, and will in future be
! Identified with and as a part OF that insti-
tuition. The faculty will remain the same.
| except that additions will be made TO II
to increase it's efficiency and widen It's
scope OF usefulness. A class OF twenty
/ two was graduated from the college In
February, and It is the aim to graduate a
! class each six months, though the course
/ Of study is for one year.
The graduates Of Tuesday evening were
| b. A. Armitage, c. 8, Baum, B. NJ Barnes
Jozines Cording. B. Dienstbier, L. E. Ew-
ing, J. H. Forrest, Albert Fricke, F. Her
mansky. Theo. Haden. NJ. o. Hamel, J. B
| Lester. o. B. Luse, John Mostl, Edward
| Michal. Henry Rathbun. oscar Ruzicka
| A. X. ROLAND, Charles Redman. Mearl
RatclifI. Estella Robinson and Paul Schulz