Pharmacy Time Capsules

2010 (Second Quarter)

1985—Twenty-five years ago:

• The Campbell University School of Pharmacy is founded in Buies Creek, NC. 

• Pharmacy Directors of Pediatric Hospitals (PDPH) formed in 1985.  Name changed to Pediatric Pharmacy Administrative Group (PPAG) in 1987.

1960—Fifty Years Ago:

• Enovid (Searle) was the first combination (norethynodrel with ethynylestradiol 3-methyl ether) oral contraceptive approved by the FDA.
• The 1960 Lilly Digest reported that the average prescription price was $$3.19.

1935—Seventy-five Years Ago:

• Property owned by the American Pharmaceutical Association in the District of Columbia where the headquarters was to be erected, was exempted from general taxes as long as it was to be used by the Association.  
• The Rockefeller Foundation developed the first vaccine for Yellow Fever, once prevalent in the southern United States.  It was tested and released the following year.

1910—One hundred Years Ago:

• The Carnegie Foundation supported Abraham Flexner’s study of the state of medical education in the United States and Canada thus changing medical education forever.  Pharmacy leaders later approached Flexner to do a similar study.  He refused noting that pharmacy was not a profession.
• Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer hypothesized that diabetes was the consequence of deficit of a pancreatic chemical which he called insulin—11 years before the discovery of Banting and Best.

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

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