Pharmacy Time Capsules

2007

1982—Twenty-five years ago:

• The term AIDS ("acquired immune deficiency syndrome") is used for the first time.

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.

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      

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.

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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