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The history of pharmacy as a modern and independent science dates back to the first third of the 19th century. Before then, pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine . Before the advent of pharmacists, there existed apothecaries that worked alongside priests and physicians in regard to patient care.
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located about 14 miles (23 km) north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge and 52 miles (84 km) from Napa Valley. The population was 14,231 at the 2020 census. Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of Richardson Bay, and the eastern slopes of Mount ...
The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.
Shay No. 8 under steam amidst a redwood grove on the line Mill Valley and Mt Tamalpais Scenic Railway advertisement of 1906. Louis L. Janes was the initial impetus behind creating a railroad at Mount Tamalpais. [12] Janes was the resident director of the Tamalpais Land & Water Co. and first town clerk of Mill Valley. [13]
The Mill Valley station is a former railway station and historic depot located on Throckmorton Avenue in Mill Valley, California. Passenger railway services ran in Mill Valley between 1889 and 1940. The current station building was built in 1929 and served as a freight depot into the 1950s.
Mill Creek Valley became one of the largest African American communities in the first half of the 20th century. [9] Black businesses and organizations thrived. [7] Mill Creek Valley, spanning 465 acres, [4] was the home to hundreds of businesses and organizations, 5,600 residential buildings, and 43 historic churches in the 1950s.
Ketner was born in Rimertown, North Carolina, on September 20, 1920, to parents George Robert Ketner and Effie Yost Ketner. [1] [2] [3] Ketner grew up selling newspapers and almanacs, all while learning what he called "street smarts". [3] At a young age, Ketner had an apparent aptitude for arithmetic, claiming he could "out add any adding machine."
Plumb's Drugs, Rexall in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Rexall was a chain of American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products.The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1903, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across the United States from 1920 to 1977.