December 9, 2025

Dose of History – Hot Sodas

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…

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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 23, 2025

Dose of History – Women & the Pharmaceutical Press

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…

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June 19, 2024

Digitizing Pharmacy Trade Catalogs – the Work Continues!

The American Institute of the History of Pharmacy is thrilled to announce that the latest batch of trade catalogs, digitized in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center…

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