"JAMES CUTBUSH
"Chemist and Apothecary
"No. 25 South Fourth Street, Phila.
"where complete collections of chemical reagents are kept as usual."
Here is a hint as to the occupation of Cutbush. He was a chemist—presumably a manufacturing chemist, supplying the necessary reagents to persons desiring them for their chemical studies; and further he was a pharmacist serving the various requirements of the medical men of the City.
Thorough search through newspaper files disclosed that from the year 1811 and perhaps two years earlier, and extending up to the year 1813—various announcements were made by Cutbush as to lectures of a public nature. These help us realize the character of the individual and his work. For example—
"Dr. Cutbush's course of Evening Lectures on Chemistry will commence early in the second week in November, at the Laboratory in Videl's Court, in Second, near the Corner of Chestnut St."
and several months later the following notice was found—
"LECTURES
on
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL PHARMACY
"The subscriber, at the solicitation of several medical gentlemen, proposes to give a series of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy, accompanied with the necessary chemical elucidations.