-Pharmacy Time Capsules

2007

1982—Twenty-five years ago:

• Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties begins certification  in Nuclear Pharmacy

1957—Fifty years ago

• 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 

1932—Seventy-five year ago

• Nevada Pharmacists Association formed
• Four-year course required to take state boards for registration         

1907—One hundred years ago

• Montana College of Pharmacy formed

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

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