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In Service to American Pharmacy

The Professional Life of William Procter Jr.

Gregory J. Higby

University of Alabama Press, 1992

The story of the visionary pharmacist who helped build modern American pharmacy.

In Service to American Pharmacy: The Professional Life of William Procter Jr. by Gregory J. Higby is the definitive biography of William Procter Jr., widely recognized as the "Father of American Pharmacy." Through meticulous historical research, Higby chronicles Procter's extraordinary career and demonstrates how one individual's dedication helped transform pharmacy in the United States from a commercial trade into a respected healthcare profession during the nineteenth century.

The book follows Procter's contributions as a practicing pharmacist, pharmaceutical scientist, educator, editor, and organizational leader. It places his accomplishments within the broader evolution of American healthcare, tracing developments from the founding of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821 through the emergence of professional standards, drug quality controls, pharmaceutical education, and meaningful pharmacy legislation. Higby shows how Procter's commitment to scientific rigor and public service helped establish many of the principles that continue to guide pharmacy practice today.

This book offers a valuable history of nineteenth-century medicine, science, and professionalization in America. Rich in historical context and scholarly insight, it illustrates the challenges and achievements involved in creating a modern profession dedicated to public health and pharmaceutical excellence. Essential for historians of medicine, pharmacy practitioners, and scholars of American science, this work highlights the enduring legacy of one of the most influential figures in healthcare history.


 

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cover of Writing for Justice: Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

Writing for Justice

Victor Séjour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

Elèna Mortara

Dartmouth College Press, 2015

In Writing for Justice, Elèna Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Séjour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, Séjour penned La Tireuse de cartes (The Fortune-Teller, 1859), a popular play based on the famed Mortara case. In this historical incident, Pope Pius IX kidnapped Edgardo Mortara, the child of a Jewish family living in the Papal States. The details of the play’s production—and its reception on both sides of the Atlantic—are intertwined with the events of the Italian Risorgimento and of pre–Civil War America. Writing for Justice is full of surprising encounters with French and American writers and historical figures, including Hugo, Hawthorne, Twain, Napoleon III, Garibaldi, and Lincoln. As Elèna Mortara passionately argues, the enormous amount of public attention received by the case reveals an era of underappreciated transatlantic intellectual exchange, in which an African American writer used notions of emancipation in religious as well as racial terms, linking the plight of blacks in America to that of Jews in Europe, and to the larger battles for freedom and nationhood advancing across the continent. This book will appeal both to general readers and to scholars, including historians, literary critics, and specialists in African American studies, Jewish, Catholic, or religious studies, multilingual American literature, francophone literature, theatrical life, nineteenth-century European politics, and cross-cultural encounters.
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