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I s s u e 9 F a l l 2 0 2 0 History of Pharmacy SIG Newsletter Pharmacy Chronicles: Past, Present, and Future Welcome Message from the Chair, History of Pharmacy Special Interest Group Welcome Readers! It has been quite a year since I’d like to take a brief mo- tice of pharmacy provides a wealth our last History of Pharmacy SIG ment to introduce myself. I’m Me- of exploration and application! newsletter, one which we will all re- gan R. Undeberg, PharmD, BCACP flect upon with historical implica- and Clinical Associate Professor at In my year with you as your tions in the future. As your time Washington State University College AACP History of Pharmacy SIG permits, take a journey over to of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical chair, I encourage each of you to A I H P ’ s https://aihp.org/ Sciences in Spokane, WA. While my explore your area of interest in phar- collections/aihp-covid19-project. main role is educating future phar- macy history. We invite all of you to There, you can reflect and record macists through the didactic curricu- submit articles, briefs, book reviews, your experiences with COVID-19 lum as well as their clinical APPE pictures, or ways you incorporate the for our future historical reference. experiences in acute care, as with history of pharmacy in your teaching Just as many have looked back to the many of you, I hold dear to my heart and practice. As we look forward to 1918-19 influenza pandemic, some- a love of history—particularly that of our future in 2021, we all will be join- day clinicians and laypeople alike will the pharmacist during WWII Re- ing the Philadelphia College of Phar- wonder what perspectives we had sistance activities and the role of the macy in their bicentennial celebration with COVID-19. Japanese-American pharmacist in the as the first college of pharmacy in US concentration camps. Our prac- our nation. 2021 will be a memora- ble year for our profession. In the spirit of historical INSIDE THIS ISSUE: adventure, enjoy reading this edition of our newsletter. Meet the Editors 2 Wilbur Scoville 7 Sincerely, Editor’s Message 2 Tadeusz Pankiewicz 8 -Megan Undeberg, SIG Officers 2 History of Pharmacy SIG Chair 9 Adverting What is It? / Announcements 3, 4 Pharmacy Through the Lens of 10 Hook’s Drug Store news article 5, 6 Hollywood II; “Handy Andy” Peer Reviewed Articles 7-17 ABOUT the SIG 18 P a g e 2 History of Pharmacy SIG Meet the Editors Editor Editor Thank you ... The Editors would like to thank the vol- unteers who performed the peer reviews and editing for this year. Rebecca Anderson David Baker Marilyn Bulloch Bob Cisneros Lee Evans Christy Harris Catherine A .Taglieri, Pharm.D. Bernie R. Olin, Pharm.D. Kirk Hevener Associate Professor of Pharmacy Associate Clinical Professor Paul Jungnickel Practice Auburn University, Harrison School Rachel Koenig MCPHS University School of of Pharmacy Jane Krause Pharmacy 362 W. Thach Concourse Wesley Lindsey 179 Longwood Avenue, 2232 Walker Building Karen Nagel-Edwards Boston, Massachusetts 02115 Auburn, AL 36849 Scott Wisneski Tel. 617.732.2835 Tel. 334.844.8334 Bradley Wright E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Message from the Editor Welcome We are pleased of presenting peer-reviewed teers to be peer reviewers; and interesting stories that to present the 9th issue of articles, “upping our game,” we appreciate your efforts help to clear away some of the History of Pharmacy so to speak. That said we and the burden is light. the obscurity of our profes- SIG Newsletter Pharmacy must give a shout-out to sional history. To further Of course, the peer- Chronicles: Past, Present, our peer reviewers who that endeavor, we encour- reviewers must have some- and Future. This is our respond quickly and with age our readers to enlist the thing to read, so we also second issue for this year, constructive comments to aid of your students to add gratefully acknowledge the so at least not everything is the authors, resulting in a to our pages. Their per- authors who have taken the bad in 2020. This also higher quality publication. spective can often provide a time to provide insightful represents our fourth year We always welcome volun- fresh look onto the past -continued on page 3 SIG OFFICERS Megan Undeberg James Culhane James A. Dasher Mike Hegener ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Chair Immediate Past Chair Chair Elect Secretary of Knowledge Management I s s u e 9 P a g eP a3 g e 3 ANNOUNCEMENTS Message from the What is It? E d i t o r , continued from Submitted by Mike p a g e 2 H e g e n e r and benefit both student and teacher. What is the item shown below, what time period was it used and what was the intended purpose Speaking of obscure, the articles appearing in this issue of it? The answer is on page 4. bring to our attention an accomplished pharmacist, bet- ter known in the culinary arts, a true pharmacist hero in the harshest of times and a slice of pharmacy in cinema, starring Will Rogers as the intrepid pharmacist, among other articles. We welcome a short, newsy piece of trivia or a full arti- cle for peer review (1500-2000 words). Pictures are al- ways good! To volunteer, contribute or just have a question, please feel free to contact either Cathy Taglieri or Bernie Olin. We are always happy to hear from you. —Bernie Olin, Pharm.D., Auburn University, Harrison School of Pharmacy American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Update AIHP has had a very productive year! AIHP hosted the New Social History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals Festival in September. The Festival was a five day free online streaming event. Participants and presenters came from all around the world. Videos of all 21 Festival sessions and 38 Festival presentations are now available to watch on the AIHP website or the AIHP YouTube channel. (https://aihp.org/new-social-history-festival/) In May and June, AIHP and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy sponsored the inaugural Edward Kremers Seminar in the History of Pharmacy & Drugs, a series of five online weekly lectures on topics related to the history of pharmacy and pharmaceuticals. In April 2020, AIHP also launched its Covid-19 Historical Documentation Project, which seeks to document pharmacy sto- ries and experiences during the COVID-19 global pandemic for the benefit of future historians and scholars. See the full de- tails on the next page (page 4) or follow this link. https://aihp.org/collections/aihp-covid19-project/ This summer, AIHP reached a new partnership agreement with the University of Wisconsin Press for the publication of the Institute's academic journal. In conjunction with the move to UW Press, AIHP will change the name of its journal to History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals (HoPP) from Pharmacy in History. We anticipate that the first issue under the HoPP title (vol. 63, no. 1) will be published by UW Press in the early summer of 2021. The Institute recently posted a call for papers for a special issue of HoPP that will investigate the "Colonial History of Plant- Based Pharmaceuticals": https://aihp.org/hopp-journal/cfp-colonial-histories/. During 2020, the Institute also undertook a comprehensive review of its awards program. The review produced a series of recommendations, approved in June by the Institute’s Board of Directors, that will change protocols for awarding the George Urdang Medal, the Edward Kremers Award, and the AIHP Glenn Sonnedecker Prize. We believe the changes, which take effect in 2021, will enhance the prestige of the awards and better advance the mission of the Institute. Now is an exciting time in the History of Pharmacy, and AIHP welcomes new and returning members. Please consider join- ing or renewing your membership now. https://aihp.org/join-support/individual/ P a g e 4 History of Pharmacy SIG What is It? The instructions for this pictured for- ple of how health care providers ANSWER maldehyde generator, Dr. Geo Lein- thought they were practicing cutting- Submitted by inger’s, were to close all doors and edge medicine based on the science Mike Hegener windows, spread out all clothing and known at the time. bedding, etc. so that the gas can reach and penetrate everything. It worked My favorite quote from the box that It is a Formaldehyde Generator via heating the solidified formalde- seems timely: “The hardest problem which health boards have to solve is In the late 1800’s to early 1900’s it hyde compound in the top cup via the included alcohol burner be- how to prevent the spread of infec- was thought that sterilizing the air tious diseases. No matter what cau- with formaldehyde gas would help low. This device is estimated to be from 1910 and had a labeled price of tion they may adopt in improving the treat infections and prevent others sanitary conditions of the town or from contracting them. These devices $1.00 – this is equivalent to approxi- mately $26 today. city, unless the people themselves put were promoted for “sanitizing” sick forth some effort the work of the rooms, homes, schools, theaters, and It was noted on the package that the health departments is greatly handi- other public spaces. They were formaldehyde gas was entirely harm- capped.” thought to prevent the spread of scar- less, though it may irritate the eyes – let fever, diphtheria, smallpox, mea- we now know that formaldehyde gas sles, whooping cough, and other res- exposure is not as harmless as once piratory diseases common at the time.