Overview

The Toxicology History Room (THR) provides extensive information on a few historical issues. The THR is a collection of posters and other resources suitable for display at scientific meetings or other gatherings. The THR was organized and presented by Steven G. Gilbert and Phil Wexler and is a project of Toxicology History Association. We greatly appreciate all those that have contributed to the THR and are always seeking additional contributions. Below you can explore the posters that make up the THR and see pictures from THR exhibits.

Submit a Toxicology History Poster

The Toxicology History Association seeks contributors to create new posters with a focus on a historical aspect of toxicology, public health or other areas of interest. Our goal is to place scientific information in the context of history, society, and culture in a way that both enlightens and inspires. See ppd call for posters

• Poster Specification
  We have adapted a portrait format as the standard that is 28 X 44 inches or 71 x 112 cm. For example see Highlights in the History of Toxicology below. Please submit the poster as a power point file or pdf file - see ppt template. Also a brief description of the topic that we can post on the web site would be appreciated.

Toxicology History Room - Exhibits

• Society of Toxicology THR exhibit meeting in Baltimore, MD., March 16-18, 2009
• [IUTOX THR exhibit] Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, July 2010
• NACCT THR Exhibit Meeting at Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO - October 7-12, 2010
• EUROTOX 2011 THR Exhibt The 47th Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology August 28-31,2011.
• NACCT THR Exhibit Meeting at Omni Shoreham Hotel, Wahington DC, September 21-26, 2011

Explore THR exhibits

• Absinthe (David Nathan-Maister and Oxygenee Ltd.)

• Alexander the Great poster by Adrienne Mayor & Antoinette Hayes

• BEAR I Report: A Challenge and Historical View of the Linear Dose Response by Edward J. Calabrese, PhD

• Bisphenol-A - Historical Perspective (Sarah Vogel)

• Brief History of Early Drug Regulation in the United States (Elizabeth Walker)

• Chronology of Events of the 1984 Bhopal Accident (Rangaprasad Sarangrajan and Brinda Mahadevan)

• Fugu - Tetrodotoxin poster by Philip Wexler, National Library of Medicine

• Highlights in the History of Toxicology (Philip Wexler, Martha Blalock, Patti Tuohy and the National Library of Medicine)

• History and Perspectives on Lead (David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz)

• Opium History (By Catie Drew from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency) (Note: Includes a related DEA Lecture is on The Modern History of Illegal Drugs in America)

• International Union of Toxicology (IUTOX) History (Dori Germolec, Ernie Hodgson, Donna Breskin, Kai Savolainen)

• Love Canal - Historical Perspective (Fred Stoss and SUNY Buffalo)

• Richard Mead poster by Steven A. Seifert, MD, FAACT, FACMT

• Mithradates the Great The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton 2010), by Adrienne Mayor

• Milestones of Toxicology (Steven G. Gilbert and Antoinette Hayes)

• Mustard Gas poster by Matthew J. Geraci, PharmD, EOD and Mahdi Balali-Mood, MD, PhD

• National Toxicology Program (NTP) History (Dori Germolec, Mary Wolfe, John Bucher and the National Toxicology Program)

• Poison - The Evolution of a Family of Fragrances (Philip Wexler and Christian Dior)

• António Joaquim Ferreira da Silva - THR by Fernando Remião, Helena Carmo, and Maria de Lourdes Bastos

• Toxic Curiosities from the National Museum of Health and Medicine (Jim Curley and the National Museum of Health and Medicine)

• Toxic Warfare and Poison Weapons in Antiquity (Adrienne Mayor and Overlook Press)

• US Society of Toxicology (SOT) History (Ernie Hodgson, Robert Scala and Gary Carlson of the Fiftieth Anniversary SOT Task Force (FAST))

• US FDA - A History Pamphlet and Poster

• Witches’ Flying Ointments Flying Ointment Ingredients - (Stacey Hail)