December 1, 2025

Dose of History – Pharmacy and the Holidays

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…

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November 11, 2025

Dose of History – Sister Pharmacists

Although Catholic Sister nurses were operating in North America since the eighteenth century, waves of immigration from regions with significant Catholic populations in the nineteenth century would dramatically increase their…

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