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Charles Rice was one of the most enigmatic and influential pharmacists of the late nineteenth century. While extremely reticent about his personal life, he was outspoken about the need to establish standards for items that pharmacists would compound and dispense. Identified as the creator of the modern scientific pharmacopoeia, Rice established product standards for industry, prescribers, and ...
- Dennis B. Worthen
- 2004
Each day Rice personally test-ed all of the milk that was delivered to New York hospi-tals.1 College and Association Work In 1868 John Frey proposed Charles Rice for membership in the New York City College of Pharmacy, which was pri-marily an association rather than an educational institution. Rice was elected a trustee in 1870 and immediately ...
Charles Rice (1841-1901): creator of the modern scientific pharmacopoeia and father of the National Formulary J Am Pharm Assoc (2003) . 2004 Jul-Aug;44(4):521-3. doi: 10.1331/1544345041475760.
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The first drug testing was used in horse racing. European horse trainers brought the techniques of doping horses with them to America which was soon adopted by many American horse trainers in the early 1910s. The first horseman that was suspected publicly of doping horses was John Oliver Keene, better known as Jack Keene, the developer of Keeneland...
It is now widely accepted that drug testing employees increases productivity and safetyand reduces employee turnover, but management noticed this trend long before data was collected or published about it. In the 1910s Henry Ford’s automobile business was booming. The increase in sales meant that he needed to keep approximately 15,000 workers manni...
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As drug use and on the job accidents attributed to drugs continued to rise it became a common story in news media. In 1986 Ronald Reagan used his executive powers as President to issue Executive Order 12564which required mandatory drug testing for federal employees. In response Congress passed the Drug Free Workplace Act of 1988which outlined drug ...
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Aug 20, 2024 · South Carolina had seceded from the United States just before Christmas in 1860, and in April of the following year, Confederate guns began to bombard Fort Sumter, a U.S. Army outpost located on ...
The U.S. Pharmacopeia was first officially recognized with the Drug Importation Act of 1848, enacted to stop the importation of poor-quality medicines by drug makers in Europe, who stamped the products "good enough for America." This legislation armed U.S. customs inspectors at ports of entry with tools to identify drugs that were substandard ...
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DOI: 10.1201/EBK1578086801. Considers the history of rice in Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, the United States, and Hispanic America, considering social and cultural practices and offering regional contrasts. It makes reference to modern marketing practices and plant breeding. Most of the essays refer to Asia.
