Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1692

CARL FRIEDRICH MOHR (1806-1879) Practical pharmacy. Lea and Blanchard 1849 xvi [17]-576, 32 pp., 506 illus., tables. 22.9 cm.

Mohr, German pharmacist and professor of pharmacy at Bonn, was especially noted for his work in volumetric analysis. His balance for the determination of specific gravity was used in laboratories around the world and Mohr was also well known as an inventor of other pharmaceutical and chemical apparatus and techniques. In 1847 Mohr published a work entitled Lehrbuch der pharmazeutischen Technik. This work became very influential and was widely used because it was the only book then available which described in detail all the instruments and apparatus used in pharmacy and chemistry. Redwood, English pharmacist and professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the school of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, translated the book and published it at London in late 1848. It quickly became the most popular pharmaceutical textbook for England and the United States. William Procter, Jr. (1817-1874), first professor of pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, made extensive additions to Redwood's translation and published it under the present title early in 1849. This was the first textbook on pharmacy to be edited by an American pharmacist for students of pharmacy in the United States. It was not until 1856 that Edward Parrish (1822-1872) published the first truly American textbook on pharmacy.