The Lloyd Library and its makers : an historical sketch / by Caswell A. Mayo.

  • Mayo, Caswell A., 1862-1928.
Date:
1928
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    “In 1920 he was also awarded the Joseph P. Remington Honor Medal, the highest award of merit in the field of Pharmacy, and a most distinguished company of pharmacists gathered in New York to do him honor on that occasion. Could I but rehearse here a few of the choicest eulogiums there delivered, you would be able to gain an adequate idea of the mingled respect, admiration and affection with which he is regarded by the representative pharmacists of the United States. “Professor Lloyd is a man of many titles, for many institutions have been glad to do him honor. I doubt if all of you realize that he can write after his name a whole alphabet of honorary degrees. The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the oldest teaching College of Pharmacy in the world, has made him a Master of Pharmacy, Honoris Causa. The Cincin¬ nati College of Pharmacy has made him a Doctor of Pharmacy, Wilberforce a Doctor of Law, Ohio State University a Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Cincinnati a Doctor of Science, and your own Eclectic Medical College has created a new precedent, bestowing for the first time a degree, Honoris Causa, in order to make him a Doctor of Medicine.” His early association with the simple country folk of Northern Kentucky, of whom both his wife and himself took pride in being a part, furnished the back¬ ground for a delightful series of stories through which “Red Head” and “Scrog¬ gins” came to be loved by many thousands of American readers. These stories were published in separate volumes as “Stringtown on the Pike,” “Red Head,” “Scroggins,” and “Warwick of the Knobs.” But prior to the publication of these folk lore studies, he had issued a remarkable piece of mystical fiction under the title, “Etidorhpa or The End of Earth,” which had a wide circulation as did the charming “Right Side of the Car.” Professor Lloyd has also found time to contribute at least one article to every issue of The Eclectic Medical Journal since 1870. He has also published numerous articles on technical subjects in the leading pharmaceutical journals of the United States. An index of his varied contributions, made in 1922, showed no less than 3,500 titles of articles on professional topics published in the medical and phar¬ maceutical press. This number has been materially increased since that date. Nor must we forget the technical books published by him, any one of which might serve to make a man famous. This list includes: “A Pronouncing Medical Dictionary” (1879), a book on “Elixirs,” “The Chemistry of Medicines,” “Origin and History of the Pharmacopoeial Vegetable Drugs,” as well as ten Bulletins of the Lloyd Library. Among these books should also be included the publications of which he was editor and co-editor, such as Drugs and Medicines of North America and “The American Dispensatory.” John Uri Lloyd was married to Miss Emma Rouse of Crittenden, Ken¬ tucky, in 1880. He has one son, Dr. John Thomas Lloyd, who for years an instructor in entomology, Cornell University, is now associated with him in busi¬ ness, and two daughters, Mrs. O. C. Welbourn of Los Angeles, California, and Mrs. James A. Brett, of Cincinnati. In conclusion it should be emphasized that the total schooling he received was that of primitive Kentucky until he reached the age of fourteen. Then he