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Welcome to the History of Pharmacy Research Guide where you will find a variety of library resources related to the history of the pharmaceutical trade, drugs, and other topics.

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MEDLINE/Pubmed
The History of Medicine subset in MEDLINE/Pubmed indexes secondary literature dealing with the history of pharmacy and related fields.
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Tips for locating history of pharmacy articles within MEDLINE/Pubmed:

Limit search to the publication type [pt] "Historical Article"

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Search for the Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) "Pharmacy" with the subheading "history"
IPA-International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
Database includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and health-related journals published worldwide since 1970.
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Search for the Section Heading "History" or history as a subject descriptor to find history of pharmacy articles

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