Evolution of Pharmacy Flashcards
Before the Dawn of History - Belief
- Sickness caused by evil forces
- Punishment from the gods
Before the Dawn of History - Remedies
- Offer sacrifices like food and prayers
- Use of natural resources like plants, mud, animals and minerals.
Earliest known record of practice
of the art of the apothecary
Ancient Babylon
Practitioners in Ancient Babylon
priest, pharmacist and physician, all in one
record of the symptoms of illness, the prescription and directions for compounding, then an invocation to the gods
Clay tablets of Mesopotamia (800 tablets)
Father of Chinese Pharmaceutics
Shen Nung
Book Shen Nung wrote
Pen T’sao (The Botanical Basis of Pharmacy)
A Taoist & natural philosopher
Lao Tzu
Book by Lao Tzu
The Way
Lao Tzu’s Concept
Qi (energy) – balanced of Yin & Yang
Oldest, best known and most important pharmaceutical record
Papyrus Ebers
Papyrus Ebers
21 yards (60 ft) long, contains 800 Rx mentioning 700 drugs
creation of medicines by God
Book of Sirach
myrrh as astringent, carminative and protectant
Genesis
olibanum (frankinscence)
Exodus
One day each year clay was dug from a pit on a Lemnos hillside in the presence of governmental and religious dignitaries
Terra Sigillata (Sealed Earth)
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Father of Botany
Theophrastus
Father of Toxicology
Mithridates VI
Father of Pharmacology
De Materia Medica
Mithridates’ famed formula of alleged pan-antidotal powers
Mithridatum
First Pharmacist/Botanist
Claudius Galen
Class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means
Galenicals
The Apothecary
Damian
The physician
Cosmas