page_title: Bristol Myers Squibb
section_title: Squibb
hierarchical_section_title: Bristol Myers Squibb / History / Squibb
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: E.R. Squibb &amp; Son, Northern Blvd., Long Island City. Abstract/medium: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection (Library of Congress) Physical description: 1 negative&#160;:
context_page_description: Bristol Myers Squibb is an American pharmaceutical company, headquartered in New York City.
  Bristol Myers Squibb manufactures prescription pharmaceuticals and biologics in several therapeutic areas, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hepatitis, rheumatoid arthritis and psychiatric disorders.
  BMS' primary R&D sites are located in Lawrence, New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, and Redwood City, California; with other sites in Devens and Cambridge, Massachusetts, East Syracuse, New York, Braine-l'Alleud, Belgium, Tokyo, Japan, Bangalore, India and Wirral, United Kingdom. BMS previously had an R&D site in Wallingford, Connecticut.
context_section_description: The Squibb corporation was founded in 1858 by Edward Robinson Squibb in Brooklyn, New York. Squibb was known as an advocate of quality control and high purity standards early within the pharmaceutical industry. He went on to self-publish an alternative to the U.S. Pharmacopeia titled Squibb's Ephemeris of Materia Medica, after failing to convince the American Medical Association to incorporate higher purity standards. Materia Medica, Squibb products, and Edward Squibb's opinion on the fundamentals of pharmacy are found in many medical papers of the late 1800s. The American Journal of Pharmacy published more than one hundred papers of Squibb's research surrounding the industry.
  Squibb Corporation served as a major supplier of medical goods to the Union Army during the American Civil War, providing portable medical kits containing morphine, surgical anesthetics, and quinine for the treatment of malaria (which was endemic in most of the eastern United States at that time).
  In 1944, Squibb opened the world's largest penicillin plant in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
caption: E.R. Squibb & Son facility in Long Island City, New York, in 1948
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