A Century of Caring: The Health Sciences at the University of Iowa, 1850-1950: College of Pharmacy
Measuring Up
| The 1880 edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia recommended that pharmacists begin measuring liquids by mass, using a pan balance, rather than by volume, using graduated cylinders. The arguments for this change were chiefly scientific, and were motivated by the desire to create greater consistency in the quality of drug treatments. Critics, however, believed these scientific ideas were opposed to "commonsense" thinking, and argued that the change reflected elitist "European" ideas about pharmacy rather than "American" ones. Eventually, the merit of the new system was recognized. |
66. The pharmacy at the Unversity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 1940, courtesy of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy |
67. Manufacturing pharmacy, 1943, courtesy of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy |
68. Manufacturing pharmacy, 1943, courtesy of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy |
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