The Emergence of the German Dye Industry to 1925. John Joseph Beer

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1960 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-367
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Vol 69 (1) ◽  
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Theodore J. Kreps
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2021 ◽  
pp. 77-98
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Edward Shorter

The pharmaceutical industry began in 1858, with August Kekulé’s discovery of the benzene ring, which formed the basis of the dye industry that eventually turned into the pharmaceutical industry. Merck and Pfizer bought medicinal chemicals in bulk and processed them into pharmaceuticals for sale to pharmacies or directly to physicians, who dispensed them to patients. The idea of selling medicine was to displace the compounding pharmacist as the manufacturer of pharmaceuticals. The pharmaceutical industry accelerated with the introduction of a new pill-making technology: in 1900, with the aspirin, Bayer in Leverkusen became the first drug company to market a major product in tablet form. Drug manufacture transitioned into an industry that went into full swing in the 1920s.


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