- When Sr. Albert B.Prescott launched the pharmacy courcy at the university of Michigan in 1868, critical attention was aroused because he abandoned the traditional requirement of pre-graduation apprenticeship.
- At the 1871 convention of the American pharmaceutical association, he was denied credentials and ostracized.
- However, the Michigan course pioneered other major changes : laboratory pharmacy, a definite curriculum that included basic sciences, and a program that demanded students 'full -time attention.
- During the next thirty years, Dr.Prescott had the satisfaction of seeing his once revolutionary innovations generally adopted by pharmaceutical faculties.