American Pharmaceutical Association history

The early USPC was dominated by physicians who selected the best dmgs. This prevented iaclusion ia the USP of a large number of substances that were widely used, particularly elixirs, a popular dosage form ia the late nineteenth ceatury. To fill this gap, ia 1888 the American Pharmaceutical Association pubUshed the first NE, which provided standards for dmgs ia wide use but aot iacluded ia the USP. A history of the Natioaal Eormulary is also iacluded at the froat of the NF sectioa ia USP XXII—NFXUII (5). 

On the background of calomel, see J. Worth Estes, Dictionary of Protopharmacology Therapeutic Practices, 1700-1850 (Canton, MA Science History Publications, 1990), p. 34 and George Urdang, Origin of the Term Calomel, /our-nal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Practical Pharmacy Edition 9 (1948) 414-418. 

NY Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001). As part of the centennial anniversary of the Civil War, the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy featured a symposium titled Pharmacy Looks Back at the Civil War Years. Participants included George Winston Smith, Ernst Steib, J. Hampton Hoch, and Norman Franke, and three of the four papers were published in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 1(12) (1961) 763-774. More recently see a brief but informative and well-referenced article by Guy Hasegawa, Pharmacy in the American Civil War, American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 57 (2001) 475-489. This has since been reprinted as part of a special Civil War issue of Pharmacy in History 42 (2000) that also contains Michael A. Flarmery, The Life of a Hospital Steward The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall (87-97) and Maurice Albin, The Use of Anesthetics During the Civil War, 1861-1865 (99-114). 

Craig, W.A., Evenson, M.A. Ramgopal, V. (1976) The effect of uremia, cardiopulmonary bypass and bacterial infection on serum protein binding. In The Effect of Disease States on Drug Pharmacokinetics, (ed., L.Z. Benet) pp. 125-136. American Pharmaceutical Association, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences Washington DC. Dedrick, R.L., Bischoff, K.B. Zaharko, D.S. (1970) Interspecies correlation of plasma concentration history of methotrexate (NSC-740). Cancer Chemotherapy Reports, (Part 1), 54, 95-101. 

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