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The Uriach Foundation 1838 has recently acquired an issue of the newspaper La Ilustración Artística published on February 8, 1909.

This magazine was published weekly in Barcelona between 1882 and 1916 by the publishing house Montaner y Simón. At first, it gave priority to engravings over photography, but by the late 19th century, photography began to prevail on its pages.

In this issue, there is an advertisement for “Fenol Comeleran”, a product described in the ad as antiepidemic, antihemorrhagic, antiputrid, cauterizing, and insecticidal, indicated against cholera, yellow fever, typhus, smallpox, etc.

The product was exclusively distributed in Spain by J. Uriach y Cía. from its headquarters located at 20 Montcada Street, Barcelona.

In its commitment to promoting studies on the history of the Health Sciences, the Uriach Foundation 1838 has established an annual international prize, which will be awarded to the best work that, in the judgment of a jury designated for this purpose, addresses a topic related to History and the Health Sciences.

The award will be granted under the following

RULES

1. The 51st Uriach Foundation Prize “History of Medicine” for 2020 carries an award of €3,000 for the winner and a runner-up prize of €1,000, if the jury deems it appropriate.

2. The monographs submitted for the Prize must be original and unpublished. Works that, at the time of the award, have been published in whole or in part, as well as those submitted to other competitions, will not be accepted.

3. Entries must be submitted in electronic format together with a printed copy, double-spaced, with a recommended length of 80,000 characters including spaces. Bibliography or documentary references, as well as supplementary iconography, must also be included.

4. The works, written in Spanish, must be sent to the Uriach Foundation. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2020. Submissions must follow the system of motto and sealed envelope, without the name(s) of the author(s) appearing on the work itself. The author(s) identification must be included inside a sealed envelope marked with the same motto as the original work.

5. The 51st Uriach Foundation Prize “History of Medicine” will be awarded by a Jury, whose decision will be announced during November 2020.

6. Once the Prize has been awarded, the secretary of the Jury will proceed to open the sealed envelope of the winning entry and, if applicable, that of the runner-up.

7. Should the Jury deem it appropriate, the winning work, as well as other submitted works, may be published in the digital journal Pharmacy, Medicine and History, always in agreement with the authors.

8. The award-winning monographs will become the property of the Uriach Foundation 1838, which will hold the right of publication for three years following the award. If publication does not take place within this period, the publication rights will revert to the author, who may publish the work elsewhere, with the obligation to cite the Prize received. Works that are not awarded or selected for publication will be destroyed without the opening of their sealed envelopes.

9. Participation in this competition implies full acceptance of the rules of this call.

Palau-solità i Plegamans, December 2019

Correspondence related to this Call should be addressed to:

Uriach Foundation 1838
Pol. Industrial Riera de Caldes
Av. Camí Reial, 51–57
08184 Palau-solità i Plegamans (Barcelona)
fu1838@uriach.com – (+34) 93 863 02 25

The Uriach Foundation 1838 has recently acquired a collection of advertising postcards from the 1920s for the product Fidibus Zampironi Insect Repellent. These mosquito-killer tablets were produced by the laboratory Farmacia Internazionale Zampironi, headquartered in the Italian city of Venice.

On the front of the postcard one can see St. Mark’s Square and Basilica, while on the reverse side the text reads: “Do you want to sleep well? Burn one tablet at bedtime of the genuine Fidibus Zampironi insect repellent. Kills disease-carrying mosquitoes.”

The distribution of Zampironi’s Italian products was handled exclusively by Uriach Laboratories during the 1920s and 1930s.

All copies of the first edition of Santa María del Mar in Catalan have sold out. The revised second edition is now available in bookstores and in our online shop.

In addition, the English version of this book has just been published, translated and adapted by Rafael Gómez-Moriana Korn, architect, art history specialist, and professor in charge of the Term Abroad Program of the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary.

The deadline for submissions to the 50th Uriach Foundation Prize “History of Medicine” is July 1.

In its commitment to promoting studies on the history of the Health Sciences, the Uriach Foundation 1838 has established an annual international prize, which will be awarded to the best work that, in the judgment of a jury designated for this purpose, addresses a topic related to History and the Health Sciences.

Its granting will follow the following RULES:

1. The 50th Uriach Foundation Prize “History of Medicine” for 2019 carries an award of €3,000 for the winner and a runner-up prize of €1,000, if the jury deems it appropriate.

2. The monographs submitted for the Prize must be original and unpublished. Works that, at the time of the award, have been published in whole or in part, as well as those submitted to other competitions, will not be accepted.

3. Entries must be submitted as a text file in electronic format (not PDF), together with a printed copy, double-spaced, with a recommended length of 80,000 characters including spaces. Bibliography or documentary references, as well as supplementary iconography, must also be included.

4. The works, written in Spanish, must be sent to the Uriach Foundation. The deadline for submission is July 1, 2019. Submissions must follow the system of motto and sealed envelope, without the name(s) of the author(s) appearing on the work itself. The author(s) identification must be included inside a sealed envelope marked with the same motto as the original work.

5. The 50th Uriach Foundation Prize “History of Medicine” will be awarded by a Jury, whose decision will be announced in October 2019.

6. Once the Prize has been awarded, the secretary of the Jury will proceed to open the sealed envelope of the winning entry and, if applicable, that of the runner-up.

7. Should the Jury deem it appropriate, the winning work, as well as other submitted works, may be published in the journal Pharmacy, Medicine and History, always in agreement with the authors.

8. Works that are not awarded or selected for publication will be destroyed without the opening of their sealed envelopes.

9. Participation in this competition implies full acceptance of the rules of this call.

Palau-solità i Plegamans, November 2018

Correspondence related to this call should be addressed to:

Uriach Foundation 1838
Pol. Industrial Riera de Caldes
Av. Camí Reial, 51–57
08184 Palau-solità i Plegamans (Barcelona)
fu1838@uriach.com – (+34) 93 863 02 25

Today we had the pleasure of receiving the visit of Mr. Antoni Vila Casas, president of the foundation that bears his name and with a long professional career as a pharmaceutical entrepreneur.

Founded in 1986, the Vila Casas Foundation consists of three contemporary art museums and two temporary exhibition spaces dedicated to showcasing contemporary Catalan art.

Accompanied by the president of the Uriach Foundation 1838, Dr. Joan Uriach Marsal, Mr. Vila Casas visited our exhibition space Uriach Gallery, the Historical Library of Health Sciences, and our documentation center.