Pharmacy Time Capsules

2007

1982—Twenty-five years ago:

  • The term AIDS ("acquired immune deficiency syndrome") is used for the first time.
  • Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties begins certification  in Nuclear Pharmacy
  • Heptavax B (Merck Sharpe & Dohme) approved.  First vaccine licensed in the US made directly from human blood.
  • Between September 29 and October 1, 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol that was poisoned with cyanide.
  • In 1982, Swedish professor Bengt Samuelsson discovered 'leukotrienes,' compounds found in white blood cells which are involved in asthma and in the anaphylactic shock that may follow exposure to foreign substances, like bee stings.
  • American Druggist , editor-in-chief Stanley Siegelman, leads a year long campaign to make violent crimes against pharmacists a federal crime.  Led by US Senator  Roger W. Jepsen (Iowa).
  • APhA Executive Director (1959-1983) William Apple announces his decision to retire but dies before the effective date

1957—Fifty years ago

  • Sputnik is launched setting off the space race between the United States and Russia
  • Pharmacist Carl T. Durham elected chair of the Atomic Energy Commission in the 85th U.S. Congress.
  • Orinase marketed
  • Influenza pandemic on 1957.  There were seven U.S. manufactures of vaccine—Eli Lilly, Pitman-Moore, Lederle, National Drug Company, MSD, Parke Davis and Abbott 
  • APhA Secretary and general manager (1944-1959) Robert Fischelis announces his decision to retire.

1932—Seventy-five year ago

  • Samford College of Pharmacy established as Howard College
  • American Council on Pharmaceutical Education formed
  • First clinical use of penicillin by Fleming      
  • Nevada Pharmacists Association formed
  • Four-year course required to take state boards for registration         
  • German patent filed for Prontosil, a red-dye that contained a sulfonamide group which was effective in treating bacterial infections.  This introduced the first “miracle drug”.
  • Edward H. Land invented polarizing film leading to Polaroid-Land cameras and films in 1947

1907—One hundred years ago

  • Oklahoma State Pharmacists Association formed
  • California publishes the first state association journal
  • In 1907, Alois Alzheimer characterized the senile degeneration , to which he loaned his name, by the 'senile plaques' and 'neurofibrillary tangles' which he found in an autopsied brain.
  • Montana College of Pharmacy formed
  • American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties (now the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy) establish the two year curriculum as minimum for colleges of pharmacy.
  • In 1907, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius published Immunochemistry: The Application of the Principles of Physical Chemistry to the Study of Biological Antibodies, thereby coining the term 'immunochemistry.'  Arrhenius won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1903.
  •  Mary Mallon (“Typhoid Mary") becomes the first American typhoid carrier to be traced and identified

1882—One hundred and twenty-five years ago

  • Pasteur announces his work on rabies

 

 

By: Dennis B. Worthen  Lloyd Scholar, Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, OH

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