Vintage pharmacy artifacts reveal history of pharmacy

Pharmacy in History

In the seventeenth century the English apothecaries, newly separated from the Grocers Company, began to practise medicine. Their action brought the wrath of the physicians down upon their heads and the ensuing quarrel is noted for the vituperative literature it engendered. In the nineteenth century when the chemists and druggists organised themselves they were particularly careful not to encroa...

Pharmacy: an illustrated history

Coleman, had trained in human surgery and made no attempts, in more than 40 years of teaching at the College, to cover subjects unconnected with horses. It was not until, as the Royal Veterinary College, the institution entered its second century under John McFadyean in the 1890s that veterinary education in Britain achieved the same academic standards as other professions at home, and similar ...

American Institute of the History of Pharmacy

The Edward Kremers Award for 1968 will be awarded to Dr. Martin Levey. This award was established by the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy to recognize distinguished writing in pharmaceutical history by an American scholar. It was established in honour of the late Edward Kremers, a distinguished figure in American Pharmaceutical Education who encouraged the study of pharmaceutical h...

The early history of pharmacy in Singapore.

[A history of pharmacy in pictures].

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