He was also behind the formation of the US Food and Drug Administration, and pioneered the concept of prescriptions. The pharmaceutical manufacturing company that Eli Lilly set up in distinguished itself by having a permanent research staff, superior mass production techniques, and a strong focus on quality.
Lilly began his pharmaceutical career in when he was an apprentice chemist and pharmacist at the Good Samaritan Drug Store in Lafayette, Louisiana. He later enrolled in a pharmacology course at Indiana Asbury University, graduating after two years, and opened his own Indianapolis drugstore in He enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the Civil War in , rising to the rank of Major of Cavalry, before being captured and spending the final year of the war in a prisoner of war camp.
After a failed attempt at running a cotton plantation in Mississippi that resulted in bankruptcy, Lilly ran a succession of different drugstores with different partners. But he was more interested in pharmaceutical manufacturing than running a pharmacy and in , using capital generated from the drugstores, he opened his own laboratory. This manufacturing venture began with three employees, including his year-old son Josiah.
Following his experience with low quality medicines during the Civil War, Lilly was committed to producing only high quality prescription drugs, in contrast to the often ineffective patent medicines of the time. One of his first products, quinine, quickly became his bestselling. Slide 2 family Run Est Information on Viagra Connect! Dublin Herbalist Available Online Now! Opening Hours. Monday — Friday: am - pm Saturday- am — pm Sunday- Closed.
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