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Edward was born on July 4, 1819 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, of Quaker parents, James R. Squibb and Catherine H. (Bonsal) Squibb.
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Excerpt from The American Medical Association and the Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America Dr. Squibb began by giving a brief history of the origin of the United States Pharmacopoeia, from which it appeared that it originated in this State, chiefly through the efforts of Dr. Lyman Spalding, of the N. Y. County Medical Society, in 1817, and first came into actual existence in 1820, chiefly through the efforts of Drs. Thomas T. Hewson, Franklin Bache and George B. Wood, of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This College had proposed a U. S. Pharmacopoeia as early as 1787, but a Committee, to which the subject was referred, do not appear to have accomplished anything of practical value. The Pharmacopoeia of 1820 was the authorized work of 9. Convention which met in Washington, the first of a series of decennial conventions which havé' met for the purpose of revising the Pharmacopoeia ever since that time, namely, in 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 and 1870. And a similar convention is provided for, to meet in 1880. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Edward was born on July 4, 1819 in Wilmington, Delaware, United States, of Quaker parents, James R. Squibb and Catherine H. (Bonsal) Squibb.
After his boyhood days in Wilmington, where he pursued his studies under the guidance of a tutor, he began an apprenticeship under Warder Morris, a druggist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1837 and completed it under J. H. Sprague, another Philadelphia druggist, at the end of five years. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia in 1845 with the degree of M. D.
Squibb practised medicine in Philadelphia for two years and held the positions of assistant demonstrator of anatomy, curator of the museum, and clerk of the clinic at Jefferson Medical College. On April 26, 1847, he accepted a commission as assistant surgeon in the United States navy; he spent the next four years at sea as medical officer on the Perry, the Erie, and the Cumberland in Mexican and South American waters and on the Mediterranean.
In 1851 he was assigned to duty at the naval hospital in Brooklyn, New York, where he began his career as a manufacturing pharmacist and chemist. It is believed that his experiences at sea with drugs and medicines of poor quality supplied to the navy were largely responsible for starting him on this career; it is known that he set about attempting to secure better supplies almost immediately after his arrival in Brooklyn. It was largely through his efforts that the Navy Department was authorized to establish its own laboratory, of which he became assistant director in 1852, for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and chemicals.
The equipment installed was for the most part crude, much of it having been designed and built by Squibb himself, yet the laboratory was a success from the start. Here ether was first manufactured by the use of steam heat instead of an open flame; the first Squibb still for the manufacture of anesthetic ether was built; processes were perfected for the manufacture of chloroform, fluid extracts, bismuth salts, calcium chloride, benzoic acid, aconite and ergot preparations, and methods were devised for the assay of opium, potent tinctures, and powdered extracts.
From 1853 until 1857, when the laboratory was discontinued for lack of funds, Squibb was director. Within the same year he resigned from the navy and accepted the position of manufacturing co-partner in the firm of Thomas E. Jenkins & Company of Louisville, Kentucky, known as the Louisville Chemical Works. About this time the suggestion was made to him by Dr. Richard Sherwood Satterlee, then chief medical purveyor of the army, that he start a laboratory of his own from which the army could purchase its drugs and chemicals with the assurance that they would be of high purity and strength. In 1858 he established in Brooklyn the first Squibb chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory under the name of Edward R. Squibb, M. D. Just as the work of the new establishment was getting well under way, it was completely destroyed by fire that resulted from an explosion of ether, and Squibb was severely burned. During his convalescence, however, he drafted plans for rebuilding, and a year later a new laboratory was erected.
He was a delegate to the pharmacopoeial conventions of 1860 and 1870, and served on the committee of revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia in 1880.
From 1869 to 1872 he lectured at the College of Pharmacy of the City and County of New York (later part of Columbia University).
In 1892 he admitted his two sons to copartnership and changed the name of the firm to E. R. Squibb & Sons. Shortly after his retirement in 1895, his health began to fail, and five years later he died at his home in Brooklyn, New York.
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He was born and raised in a Quaker family.
He took an active interest in the affairs of the American Pharmaceutical Association, which he served as a member of various committees.
He also held memberships in the American Medical Association, American Philosophical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, among others.
While working at the naval hospital, Squibb met Caroline Lownds Cook, Bache's sister-in-law. The two were married on October 7, 1852 and had their first child, Edward, the following year. Their second son Charles was born on June 16, 1858, followed by a daughter, Mary, in 1864. The couple had one more son in 1867, who did not survive infancy. Before the birth of their last child, Caroline Squibb was diagnosed with epilepsy. The personal tragedies of her illness and their child's death made Squibb even more passionate about his work.