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William August Puckner

b. 1864

Best known for his work in pharmacy and medical reference publishing, he helped turn dense scientific material into practical guides for physicians and pharmacists. His books reflect the careful, methodical spirit of early 20th-century American medicine.

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Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary With Comments

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

William August Puckner was an American pharmaceutical writer and editor born in 1864. Surviving catalog and digitized library records link him to technical works on drugs, standards, and medical reference publishing rather than to fiction or popular literature.

He is associated with the American Medical Association's Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, where contemporary journal material identifies him as the council's secretary and also connects him with the association's chemical laboratory. His name appears on works such as Epitome of the Pharmacopeia of the United States and the National Formulary and on reviews of pharmaceutical literature, showing a career centered on organizing and evaluating drug information for professional use.

Library records also indicate that he lived from 1864 to 1932. Reliable portrait evidence was not readily available from the sources reviewed, so no author image is included here.