a bit of pharmacy history

Anna Louise James was born on January 19, 1886, in Hartford. The daughter of a Virginia plantation slave who escaped to Connecticut, she grew up in Old

One of the most consequential initiatives to come out to the CPA’s annual meeting in 1920 was the establishment of a Connecticut school of pharmacy.

Between 1879 and the end of World War 1, CPA’s legislative committee was extremely busy, first proposing a Pharmacy Act in 1879 before finally getting

Amazingly, though pharmacists were tested and licensed under the Pharmacy Act in 1881, there was no similar requirement for physicians! So in 1892, the CPA

From the very start, public policy was one of primary interests of the new association and in 1876 CPA first proposed a state Pharmacy Act.

When you begin to read and review the proceedings of these early meetings, it is striking that the problems facing the profession and the Association

The association’s annual meetings quickly became a major event, attracting politicians and celebrities to hobnob with the elite of Connecticut’s pharmacy community. Indeed, no less a

And thus it was that on January 28, 1876 a general invitation was extended to Connecticut pharmacists requesting their attendance at an organizational meeting to

At the time of CPA’s founding, the usual procedure by which one became a pharmacists was for an individual to go to work for a

CPA’s story begins in 1875 on a New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad train en route from Boston to New Haven. Pharmacists John K.