Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-22
DR.. JACOBS HAS
DRUGS HISTORY
INPANEL SERIES
Traditions of Kindred Professions
of Medicine and Pharmacy UtiI-
lied in Decoration of Stores.

Traditions Of the kindred profess
sions Of medicine and pharmacy will
be crystallized by DR.. Joseph Jacobs
in a number Of decorative panels
which are being PAINTED for installa-
ton in his drug stores in Atlanta. The
history Of the two vocations from
the day Of mythical Aesculapius to
the present will be revealed in the
paintings.
There is no reason why the walls
OF drug stores should be posted with
signs Of bitters and liver pills and
other patent medicines when there is
so much Of real significance in the
professions exploited by such estab-
lishments," he said yesterday.
Panels Already Installed.
Already a number of the panels
have been installed in the Marietta
Street store-the thoughtful eyes Of
Hippocrates peering down. the quaint
figure of a pharmacist of another CEN
tury, and, most priced of all, a repro
duction Of the medallion which re-
cords the tribute paid by the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania to DR.. Crawford
w. Long, Of Athens, Ca, as the first
to use ether as an anesthetic.
And then there viii be Old Tom, or,
at least, the best likeness Of Old Tom
that q painter can reproduce. Old
Tom stands for much in the profess
sion Of pharmacy in Georgia. He is
wooden man, the figure OF a negro
carved from a solid log In his hands
he holds a mortar and pestle, and he
stood for years before the pharmacy
of Long, Long & Billups in Athens.
Old Tom stood there in the days
when DR.. Jacobs was an apprentice.
All Athens knew him and loved him,
before the war and for years after
business men, girls, college boys. DR..
Jacobs relates that visitors from Ath-
ems, seeing the hallowed figure Of Old
Tom in his office, have put their arms
about It and candidly cried
Old Tom Disappeared.
Old Tom has a history, besides his
unique interest as the embodiment of
traditions Of the classic university
town.
After standing for years before the
shop of Crawford Long, he OF the
anesthesia fame; his brother, Henry
R. J. Long, and DR.. Hal Billups, it
disappeared.
Years after, DR.. Jacobs found it in
a junk pile in the clubhouse OF an
Athens residence. Tom was battered
and torn, but Charles oliver, the
wood carver who had made the figure
in the years before the war still lived
and was a Methodist preacher in At
lanta.
DR.. Jacobs took Tom to him, and the
old negro was restored to his pristine
glory and given a treasured station
in the private office OF the Atlanta
pharmacist. Pictures of the figure
will be made for a place in the his
torical panels.
A number Of the panels will be re-
produced from antique statues and
wood cuts that DR.. Jacobs has picked
up in the course Of his travels, all OF
which have a historical value. The
most fruitful source Of the paintings
will be a quaint volume, the "Picto-
rial History Of Ancient Pharmacy and
Medicine" in which are reproductions
Of very old drawings.
Interested as Antiquary.
Dr. Jacobs is interested in his pro-
fession as an antiquary as we'll as
practitioner, and has written several
articles and papers concerning the in
teresting features viewed from that
angle.
There will be much of romance in
the series Of panels, treating respec-
lively the subjects Of the old fathers
Of the two professions, the advance OF
the professions through the centuries,
the old medical superstitiOns, the an
cient part of pharmacy in the art OF
love. and the fascinating lore of the