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PRESS RELEASE Contact:
Maggie Heran, Director
Lloyd Library & Museum
513-721-3707
mheran@lloydlibrary.org
For Immediate Release
Date: June 30, 2005
Lloyd Library and Museum Announces Its Summer 2005 Exhibit:
"Pharmacy Education in the Nineteenth Century"
On display July 1 through September 30, "Pharmacy Education
in the Nineteenth Century" explores the development of pharmacy
education in the United States. The exhibit focuses on local history
highlighting the founding of the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy in 1850
and its subsequent growth. Now part of the University of Cincinnati
Medical Center, Cincinnati was the sixth college of pharmacy in the
United States and the first west of the Alleghenies. Other local
history incorporated includes John Uri Lloyd's career in pharmacy from
apprentice to respected professional, as well as his establishment of
the Lloyd Library and Museum. The display features resources from the
Lloyd Library's book and archival collections. Nineteenth century
pharmacy texts and college catalogs, photographs, rare books, and
artifacts all combine to tell the story of pharmacy education in
America.
The exhibit coincides with the Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) held this year in Cincinnati
during the week of July 11. Lloyd Library and Museum is hosting a
session of the AACP Library Special Interest Group on Tuesday morning,
July 12th. Mike Flannery, Associate Director for Historical
Collections, Lister Hill Library at the University of Alabama and former
Lloyd Library Director and adjunct faculty member of UC College of
Pharmacy, will present "Botanicals as Dietary Supplements: Changing
Perspectives and Challenging Resources." Dennis Worthen, Lloyd Scholar,
adjunct faculty member of UC College of Pharmacy, and former director of
the Lloyd Library, will provide a brief introduction to the Library, its
history and resources. Maggie Heran, Lloyd Director, will serve as host
and moderator.
The Lloyd Library and Museum, located at 917 Plum Street, downtown
Cincinnati, is a local and regional cultural treasure, as well as a
world-renowned repository of historical and scientific information. The
library was developed in the nineteenth century by the Lloyd
Brothers-John Uri, Curtis Gates, and Nelson Ashley. Incorporated in
1898, its original purpose was to provide a reference and research
facility for Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists, Inc., one of the leading
pharmaceutical companies of the period. A trust was established in 1917
to guarantee that the library would continue to fulfill its mission "to
collect and maintain a library on botanical, medical, pharmaceutical,
and scientific books and periodicals and works of allied sciences" into
the future. The library is still supported by that trust and has grown
into a vital research center. Housing approximately 200,000 volumes on
the subjects of pharmacy, botany, horticulture, herbal and alternative
medicines, natural products, homeopathy, and eclectic medicine, the
Lloyd maintains a vast collection of scientific texts-from the most
current works to those that date back hundreds of years. Included in
its rare book collection is an original copy of the ten-volume Flora
Greca (1840) by John Sibthorp, an original copy of Elizabeth Blackwell's
A Curious Herbal (1739), Mesue Vulgare (a 1493 "common book" of
remedies), and an array of rare European texts from the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, as well as key texts in the development of
American materia medica. The Lloyd also houses archival collections,
including the papers of John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd, Lloyd
Brothers Pharmacists, Inc., and the Eclectic Medical College of
Cincinnati. Free parking is available behind the library building. For
more information about the Lloyd Library and Museum, please visit our
website at www.lloydlibrary.org.
Lloyd Library and Museum
917 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
513-721-3707
www.lloydlibrary.org
Open Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.;
third Saturday of the month, September through May, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00
p.m.
Maggie Heran, M.L.S.
Director
Lloyd Library and Museum
917 Plum Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Phone: 513/721-3707
Fax: 513/721-6575
email: mheran@lloydlibrary.org
www.lloydlibrary.org
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