AIHP is pleased to announce the winners of 2025’s Board of Directors election. Dr. Nancy Alvarez, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA, CPCC, has been elected to a three-year term as Vice President,…
Eighty-five years ago today, the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy was founded at the University of Wisconsin. The institution was largely the product of a collaboration between Edward…
Throughout the decades, many pharmacists have taken the coming of a new year as a time to reflect and predict what the future holds. Many of these musings were published…
After 30 years of dedicated service, Assistant Director Beth Fisher has retired from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. Beth’s contributions have shaped AIHP in countless ways, and her…
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The pharmaceutical trade magazine What’s New, published by Abbott Laboratories, is especially eclectic. Poems, short stories, and works of art are interspersed between articles discussing newly discovered substitutes for morphine…
We are hiring! Help us shine a light on pharmacy history. Help us grow AIHP’s impact by leading fundraising, donor stewardship, and campaign communications. Who We Are Founded in 1941…
As the weather grew cold, it was common for drugstores to sell “hot-sodas”, with one pharmaceutical trade magazine from 1919 stating that “Chocolates, beef bouillon, tomato puree, [and] malted milk…
Drugstores nowadays are not generally considered the best place to do your Thanksgiving shopping. In 1929, however, one columnist writing for the trade magazine Druggist’s Circular argued otherwise: “in the…
The early twentieth century saw a considerable increase in the amount of women working in medical fields. This was the product of a number of trends, including the Women’s Suffrage…
