SAS people in pharmacy

Shen Nung Shennong,

5000 years ago

- catalogued and wrote on 365 herbs

- overdosed on herbs he tasted

- first emperor of ancient china

Galen 131-201-ish

Turkey

founder of compounding "Galenic formulation"

-Greek physician, philosopher. Plague of Galen was first known pandemic (probably smallpox)

Abu Bakr al Razi

=Introduction of mercury-based medications

=one of the first to test new drugs on animals instead of patients

=developed morters, flasks, spatulas...

=Differentiated Smallpox and Measles, first documented use of honey as an antimicrobial.

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

980-1037 CE, Iran

Philosopher-scientist-physician. The Canon of Medicine Expert on renal calculi, early work on drug disposition and delivery

=Wine as wound dressing. First recorded aromatherapy

Elizabeth Greenleaf

1681-1782, Massachusetts

First female pharmacist in the US!!

=SHE opened her pharmacy, not her husband (minister/physician)

Carl Wilhelm Scheele

1742-1746 Germany/Sweden

Medicinal Chemist-- Discovered Oxygen, chlorine, manganese

=Didn't enjoy publishing Died from cyanide and arsenic because didn't use ventilation in his experiments

William Proctor Jr

1817-1874 Philadelphia

Established APhA. First pharmacy textbook and US Pharmacopoeia

= "Father of American pharmacy"

John Pemberton

1831-1888 Georgia

Pharmacist and chemist FIrst state-run facility on solvent crop chemicals The Coca Cola guy

=Soda as cure for morphine addiction (he was addicted himself)

Zada Mary Cooper

1875-1961 Iowa

"Grand and Glorious Lady of Pharmacy"

=Only female faculty at Iowa pharmacy at the time (only woman faculty at the time). Founded KE (womens pharmacy fraternity), Rho Chi, and women's section of APhA

Anna Louise James

1886-1977 Connecticut

First black woman pharmacist in the US, only woman at Brooklyn college of pharmacy

=Father escaped slavery via underground railroad One of the first women to register to vote after the 19th amendment was passed

Harvey AK Whitney

1894-1957 Michigan

UMich Chief pharmacist, established first pharmacy residency. Founder and president of ASHP

=Whitney award is one of the most prestigious awards in health system pharmacy, established by SMSHP in 1950.

Hubert Humphrey

1911-1978 Minnesota

Cosponsor of FDC act and Durham-Humphrey Was a pharmacist

=38th vice president, lost to Nixon, champion of social reform Author of civil rights act Established peace corps

Sidney Barthwell Sr

1906-2005 Michigan

Largest black-owned chain of pharmacies in the US (during the great depression)

=Politically active in social reform We have a Barthwell scholarship

Gloria Niemeyer Francke

1922-2008 Indiana/Ohio

APhA assistant director for YEARS, also ASHP First female Remington medalist and Whitney award recipient Advocate for women in pharmacy

Eugene Applebaum

1936-2017 Michigan

WSU graduate, inaugural chair of WSU foundation Founder of Arbor Drugs (purchased by CVS)

=Major philanthropist, focus on Detroit Our art is mostly from the Applebaum family collection