author
Torald Hermann Sollmann
1874–1965
A pioneering pharmacologist and medical educator, he helped shape the way drugs were taught and studied in the United States. His best-known textbooks became standard references for generations of students and physicians.
1 Audiobook
Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments
by Albion Walter Hewlett, William August Puckner, Torald Hermann Sollmann, Martin I. (Martin Inventius) Wilbert
About the author
Born in Germany on February 10, 1874, he moved to the United States as a teenager and worked in his brother's drugstore in Canton, Ohio while continuing his studies. He earned a pharmacist's license at a remarkably young age, then went on to study medicine at Western Reserve University, receiving his M.D. in 1896.
He built his career at Western Reserve, where he taught pharmacology and eventually became one of the field's leading American figures. Sources describe him as a major medical educator and academic leader, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1930.
As an author, he is especially remembered for influential works such as A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology and other textbooks on pharmacology and materia medica. He died on February 11, 1965, leaving behind a body of work that helped define modern pharmacology teaching.