Physician and chemist, son of Benjamin Franklin Bache; born in Philadelphia on the 25th of October 1792; died there on the 19th of March 1864. He received his medical diploma from the University of Pennsylvania in 1814, and was appointed surgeon in the army. In 1816 he began the practice of his profession in his native city; from 1826 to 1832 he was professor of chemistry in Franklin Institute; from 1831 to 1841, professor of chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and from 1841 to 1864 was professor of chemistry in Jefferson Medical College. He was president of the American Philosophical Society in 1854 and 1855, and of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum Corporation at the time of his death. He was the author, compiler and editor of a number of standard works on chemistry and cognate subjects, and a large contributor to scientific journals. In conjunction with Dr. George Wood he prepared a Pharmacopœia, the basis of the present United States Dispensatory.
