BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY

Volume 25, Number 1, 2000

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TITLE	Author	Page Number
Merck in America: the First 70 Years from Fine Chemicals to Pharmaceutical Giant	Leon Gortler Brooklyn College of the City University of New York	1
A Brief History of Pfizer Central Research	Joseph G. Lombardino	10
The Metamorphosis of Smith-Kline & French Laboratories to Smith Kline Beecham: 1925-1998	Glenn E. Ullyot, Barbara Hodsdon Ullyot, and Leo B. Slater	16
The Life Cycle of Sterling Drug, Inc.	Joseph C. Collins and John R. Gwilt	22
The Early History of Parke-Davis and Company	Milton L. Hoefle Warner Lambert-Parke Davis	28
The Hungarian Phenomenon in Israeli Science	Gábor Palló Hungarian Academy of Science	35
The Contributions of E. H. S. Bailey to the Development of Pure Food and Water Laws in Kansas	Carolyn Bailey Berneking	43
Die Edelgeborne Jungfer Alchymia. The Final Stage of European Alchemy	Vladimír Karpenko Charles University, Czech Republic	50
The First Oil Well in the World	Fathi Habashi Laval University	64
Author Saltzman Responds to "The First Oil Well in the World"		67

Book Reviews
The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Experimental Philosophy and Robert Boyle and the Limits of Reason Reviewed by Harold J. Cook	Rose-Mary Sargent 1995 Jan W. Wojcik 1997	68
Natural Dyestuffs and Industrial Culture in Europe, 1750-1880 Reviewed by Martin D. Saltzman	R. Fox and A. Niete-Galan, Eds. 1999	70

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