The New International Encyclopædia/Bache, Franklin

BACHE, Franklin (1702-1804). An American physician and chemist, bom at Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated, in 1810, at the University of Pennsylvania; in 1814, at the medical department of the same university. In the latter year he was appointed a surgeon in the United States Army. From 1814 until his death, he was professor of chemistry at the Jefferson Medical College, and in 1854-55 was president of the American Philosophical Society. He published a System of Chemistry (1810); Introductory Lectures on Chemistry (1841-52), and other works: and, with G. Wood, prepared a Pharmacopœia (1830), which was the basis of the present-day United States Pharmacopcria and United States Dispensatory.