Early Pharmaceutical Industry

Question 1

Who patented Asprin?

Answer 1

Bayer.

Question 2

What kind of dosage form did Asprin popularize?

Answer 2

Tablets.

Question 3

What was the Trading with the Enemy Act that came from WW1?

Answer 3

Seized all patents in Germans and gave them to bidders.

Question 4

Around what year did states begin requiring Pharmacy school rather than apprenticeships?

Answer 4

1920s.

Question 5

What did the 1905 New York Pharmacy Act require?

Answer 5

A diploma from an accredited school to take the board test to get licensed.

Question 6

What was the 1906 Food and Drugs Act? (3)

Answer 6

1. Mainly concerned with food. 2. Labeling law: Made USP or NF standards required for labels that said the drugs were standard. Required sellers to put whats in the drug on the label. 3. Did not stop therapeutic claims.

Question 7

What did Samuel Hopkins Adams do? (2)

Answer 7

1. Wrote “Great American Fraud” exposing Patent medicines as inert or toxic. 2. Exposed “red clauses.”

Question 8

What did the 1914 Harrison Narcotics Tax Act essentially do?

Answer 8

Made being an addict a crime. Start of the drug war. Stopped medical treatments of addicts.

Question 9

When did Prohibition begin?

Answer 9

1919.

Question 10

When was a 4 year BS required to practice pharmacy?

Answer 10

1932

Question 11

What did Prohibition do to Pharmacy?

Answer 11

Made alcohol only available via prescription.

Question 12

Does compounding continue to decline during WWI?

Answer 12

Yes.

Question 13

What did the Great Depression do to Pharmacy? (2)

Answer 13

1. Put reforms on hold. 2. Fierce competition.

Question 14

When was prohibition repealed?

Answer 14

1933.

Question 15

What was the result of prohibition on pharmacy?

Answer 15

Little competition at start for selling alcohol as a result of already having a stock, having licenses, and being responsible.

Question 16

What resulted in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938? What did it do? (2)

Answer 16

1. The Elixir of Sulfanilamide Disaster (1937). 2. Required safety testing on animals or be generally recognized as safe. 3. Clearly defined what a drug was.

Question 17

What were fair trade laws?

Answer 17

Laws meant to maintain price of drugs and cosmetics.

Question 18

What was the Elixir of Sulfanilamide Disaster (1937)? (3)

Answer 18

1. Wasn’t able to be patented, so a company began to sell it with a sweet taste. 2. Was poisonous and killed 100 people, mostly children. 3. Removed because it was incorrectly labeled an elixir.

Question 19

What is an Elixir of Sulfanilamide for?

Answer 19

To fight bacteria. Really a anti-microbial.

Question 20

What products were developed before WWII? (3)

Answer 20

1. Penicillin. 2. Syrettes. 3. Blood products.

Question 21

Did pharmacists salute nurses during WWII? Why?

Answer 21

Yes. Because nurses had to be attracted since they could not be drafted. They were given instant safety from being touched by any enlisted person by being given an officer’s position.

Question 22

How did industrialization expand during WWII? (2)

Answer 22

1. Basically ended compounding via making only end-dosage forms. 2. Penicillin development.