History of Pharmacy Resource Guide

Librarian
Name: Jodi Koste
Phone: (804) 828-9898
Email: jlkoste@vcu.edu

General History

• History of Pharmacy

Topics in Pharmacy History

• Alchemy
  • The Alchemy Web Site
• Cocaine
  • The History Of Cocaine
• Compounding
  • The History of Pharmaceutical Compounding
• Drug Law
  • Milestones in U.S. Food and Drug Law History
• Muslim Pharmacy
  • A History of Muslim Pharmacy
• Patent Medicine
  • An Illustrative Look at the History of Patent Medicine
  • What's an Old-Time Traveling Medicine Show?
• Pharmacopeia
  • History of the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP)
• Substance Use
  • A Chronology of Psychoactive Substance Use

Pharmacy Museums

• Pharmacy Museums compiled by Tompkins-McCaw Library
• Pharmacy Museums and Museum Pharmacies

Pharmacy Organizations, history of

• Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
• American Institute of the History of Pharmacy
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
• Association of Black Health System Pharmacists

Pharmaceutical Company Histories

• Alcon
• Bayer Corporation
• Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Eli Lilly and Company
• Hoffman-La Roche
• Johnson & Johnson
• Merck & Co.
• Norwich Pharmaceuticals
• Pfizer Inc.
• Wyeth Pharmaceuticals

Images

• A History of Pharmacy in Pictures
  Images from "Great Moments in Pharmacy" by George A. Bender that were underwritten by Parke, Davis & Company
• Medicine and Madison Avenue
  Includes images from general advertising for pharmaceutical companies, other manufacturers of health-related products and over the counter drugs.

Historical Journals

• American Journal of Pharmacy
  Full text coverage of this journal from 1881-1898 including v.53:1-12 (1881), v. 55:1-12 (1883), v. 56:1-12 (1884), v. 57:1-12 (1885), v. 59:1-12 (1887), v. 60:1-12 (1888), v. 61:1-12 (1889) and v. 70:1-6 (1898)
• American Journal of Pharmacy 1871
  Issues of the 1871 volume
• Classic Works in Herbal Medicine
  Links to 19th and 20th century texts related to herbal medicine.

History of Pharmacy Organizations

• American Institute for the History of Pharmacy
• British Society for the History of Pharmacy
• International Society for the History of Pharmacy