Portrait of Joseph P. Remington

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy

Black and white print of Joseph P. Remington, professor of Theory and Practice of Pharmacy (1874-1918) and Dean of the College (1893-1918)Joseph Price Remington (1847-1918), Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, class of 1866. In 1874, Remington became the professor of the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy, and in 1877, director of the pharmaceutical laboratory. Professor Remington was the first vice-president of the committee of revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia and supervised the preparation of several classes of compounds for the book. In 1880, the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy conferred an honorary Master in Pharmacy degree to Remington and he was elected the first president of the Council of the American Pharmaceutical Association, an office he held for six years. In 1893, Remington became the Dean of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, a position he retained until his death in 1918. Professor Remington was the author of "The Practice of Pharmacy" (1886), a book still used today by students and scholars.

1874-1918

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