{"id":17494,"date":"2019-09-19T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=17494"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:45","slug":"hosting-the-congress-for-the-history-of-pharmacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2019\/09\/19\/hosting-the-congress-for-the-history-of-pharmacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosting the Congress for the History of Pharmacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Laura Hartman<\/em> ~<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>On September 5, 2019, NLM welcomed twenty attendees from the 44th International Congress for the History of Pharmacy for a tour of the Library and its historical treasures.\u00a0 The Congress was co-sponsored by the American Institute for the History of Pharmacy<\/a> and the International Society for the History of Pharmacy<\/a> and supported by the U.S. Pharmacopoeial Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rare book librarians offered the group an overview of seminal medical books and manuscripts in the NLM\u2019s Incunabula Room, including Elizabeth Blackwell\u2019s A Curious Herbal: Containing Five Hundred Cuts, of the Most Useful Plants, which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick<\/a><\/em> (London, 1737-1739), arguably the most beautiful hand-painted herbal<\/a> in the NLM collection.<\/p>\n

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Poppy in A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell, vol. 1, 1737 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Title page of A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell, vol. 1, 1737 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Digitalis in A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

The group also learned about Marshall Nirenberg\u2019s Nobel Prize and Genetic Code Chart<\/a>, the FDA Notices of Judgement database<\/a> and the variety of resources available in NLM Digital Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The highlight of the morning was a presentation by John Parascandola, PhD, Congress Program Chair, former Chief, History of Medicine Division (1983\u20131992), and author of King of Poisons: a History of Arsenic<\/em> (Potomac Books, 2012), on a selection of historical pharmaceutical materials from the collections.\u00a0 Attendees enjoyed viewing hand-colored depictions<\/a> of the male and female mandragora (mandrakes) in the Gart der Gesundheit<\/a><\/em> (Garden of Health<\/em>) (Mainz, 28 Mar. 1485), and were intrigued to see original pharmaceutical postcards<\/a>, prints, and posters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Parascandola and NLM staff also showed the group the 1st edition of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia<\/a><\/em> (Washington, DC, 1820), which will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its publication next year, and Carl Wilhelm Scheele\u2019s Chemische Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer<\/em> (Chemical Investigation of Air and Fire<\/em>) (Uppsala, 1777), which details his discovery of oxygen.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Parascandola concluded his remarks with comments on the rise of arsenic as a base for green and blue pigments in common products, such as clothing, wallpaper, and artificial flowers.\u00a0 As a representation of this chapter in the history of medicine and public health, he showed the group NLM\u2019s recently encapsulated copy of toxic wallpaper samples, Shadows from the Walls of Death<\/a><\/em> (Lansing, 1874), while NLM Contract Conservator Kristi Wright offered her perspectives on the encapsulation process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/em>NLM<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and its\u00a0<\/em>History of Medicine Division<\/em><\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>open to the public<\/em><\/a>\u00a0from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST) Monday thru Friday except for\u00a0<\/em>Federal holidays<\/em><\/a>. We warmly welcome visitors and anyone who would wish to request a tour of our collections and exhibitions. Contact us at (301) 402-8878 or at\u00a0<\/em>NLM Customer Support<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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