Heritage of Pharmacy Flashcards
Refers to a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs
Apothecary
connotes a charm or a drug that can be used for
good or for evil
Pharmakon
successful treatment due to
psychologic rather than therapeutic effects
Placebo effects
successful treatment due to
psychologic rather than therapeutic effects
Placebo effects
What do you call that document that was preserved in University of Leipzig?
Ebers Papyrus
What do you call that document that was preserved in University of Leipzig?
Ebers Papyrus
This is a gum exudate that is used as an emulsifying agent in the pharmaceutical industry
acacia (gum arabic)
This is a gum exudate that is used as an emulsifying agent in the pharmaceutical industry
acacia (gum arabic)
German Egyptologist who discovered Ebers Papyrus
Georg Ebers
German Egyptologist who discovered Ebers Papyrus
Georg Ebers
• a Greek physician
• is credited with the introduction of scientific
pharmacy and medicine
• father of medicine
Hippocrates
According to ___________, the term pharmakon came to mean a purifying for good only
Hippocrates
a Greek physician and botanist, was the first to
deal with botany as an applied science of
pharmacy
Dioscorides
• considered a milestone in
the development of pharmaceutical botany and
in the study of naturally occurring medicinal
materials.
• significant work of dioscorides crate that profoundly impacted the fields of pharmacology and botany
De Materia Medica
pharmacognosy, a
term formed from two Greek words, pharmakon,
______, and gnosis, ________.
drugs
knowledge
• a Greek pharmacist– physician who attained Roman
citizenship
• aimed to create a perfect system of
physiology, pathology, and treatment
Claudius Galen
Claudius Galen originated so many preparations of vegetable
drugs by mixing or melting the individual
ingredients that the field of pharmaceutical
preparations
was once commonly referred to _________
Galenic Pharmacy
Claudius Galen originated so many preparations of vegetable
drugs by mixing or melting the individual
ingredients that the field of pharmaceutical
preparations
was once commonly referred to _________
Galenic Pharmacy
Medicinal preparation formulated by Galdn, consisting of a blend of wax, oil, and other ingredients, that was used as a base for various topical treatments
Galen’s cerate
• Swiss physician and chemist who called himself
Paracelsus.
• He influenced the transformation of pharmacy from a
profession based primarily on botanical science to
one based on chemical science.
AUREOLUS THEOPHRASTUS
BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM
• Swiss physician and chemist who called himself
Paracelsus.
• He influenced the transformation of pharmacy from a
profession based primarily on botanical science to
one based on chemical science.
AUREOLUS THEOPHRASTUS
BOMBASTUS VON HOHENHEIM
• Discoveries:
- Lactic acid (sourmilk)
- citric acid
(orange juice)
- oxalic acid (wood sorrel through
boiling and crystallization)
- tartaric acid (from
potassium hydrogen tartrate-substance deposited
when wine is stored)
- arsenic acid (Scheele’s
Green- CuHAsO3)
• Identified glycerin
• Invented new methods of preparing calomel and
benzoic acid
• Discovered oxygen a year before Priestley
Swede Karl Wilhelm Scheele
•German pharmacist
• Isolation of morphine from opium
Friedrich Serturner
• Isolated quinine and cinchonine from cinchona
and strychnine
• Isolated brucine from nux vomica
Joseph Caventou and Joseph Pelletier
• Isolated quinine and cinchonine from cinchona
and strychnine
• Isolated brucine from nux vomica
Joseph Caventou and Joseph Pelletier
Isolated caffeine
Joseph Pelletier and Pierre Robiquet
Isolated caffeine
Joseph Pelletier and Pierre Robiquet
Separated codeine from opium
Pierre Robiquet
What is the natural source of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel?
Pacific yew tree
What is the natural source of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel?
Pacific yew tree
What is the natural source for digoxin?
Digitalis lanata