Great moments in disorder

Great Moments in Medicine and Pharmacy: a History of Medicine and Pharmacy in Pictures

Great Moments in Medicine and Pharmacy: a History of Medicine and Pharmacy in Pictures, by G. A. BENDER and R. A. THOM, Detroit, Northwood Institute Press, for Parke, Davis & Co., 1966, 2 vols., pp. 421, 238, $12.00, $10.00. An astonishing amount of work has been put into these two colourful books by an author-artist team employed by Parke, Davis & Co. Using reproductions of oil paintings (by R...

Great moments in pharmacy: development of the Robert Thom series depicting pharmacy's history.

Moments in Pharmacy had its origins in the mind of a single pharmacist during the Great Depression. Nurtured for more than a decade, and pursued with fervor for 20 years after that, the idea led to the creation of these paintings and the accompanying stories, which for 50 years have used the tools of art and narrative to present highlights of the most important events in the ancient profession ...

Making history: lessons from the great moments series of pharmaceutical advertisements.

The authors shed light on present-day pharmaceutical advertisements by looking back to an important early chapter in pharmaceutical company-sponsored promotion: the Great Moments in Medicine and Great Moments in Pharmacy, a series of commercial paintings produced by Parke, Davis & Company between 1948 and 1964. Beginning in the early 1950s, Parke-Davis delivered reproductions of the Great Momen...

The great potential of nanomaterials in drilling & drilling fluid applications

The continuous development of global economy with decreasing in available hydrocarbon sources and increasing discovery and extraction costs due to decrease in-situ oil and gas reservoir, displays the necessity of using new techniques for the improve rate of penetration and productivity in well. Nanotechnology has already contributed significantly to technological advances in the energy industri...

Moments in time.