Historical Development Flashcards
from the Greek word “pharmakon” meaning medicine or drug. Art and Science of preparing natural and synthetic sources.
Pharmacy
People believed that diseases were caused by ________?
Evil forces or god’a anger
Cradle of civilization
Babylon
a person who prepared and sold medicines and drugs.
apothecary
manual of traditional Chinese medicine by Chang Chung Ching
Shang Hang Lun
oldest authoritative in writing Ayurveda
Charaka Samhita
“life” and “study of traditional medicine”
Ayurveda
symbolizes medicine (1 snake)
Rod of Asclepius
symbolizes homeostasis or balance (spinal column + 2 snakes”
Caduceus
symbolizes pharmacy
Bowl of Hygeia
Greatest physician of ancient Rome. Known for his theriac and Galen’s crate or cold cream.
Galen
father of pharmacology (study of drugs)
Dioscorides
book of Dioscorides with 600 plants, 35 animal products, and 90 minerals
De Materia Medica
father of toxicology, “Poison is in everything, and no
thing is without poison. The
dosage make it either a poison or
a remedy.”
Paracelsus
He consumed various
types of poison in small
doses and made antidotes.
MITHRIDATES VI
Patron saints of pharmacy and
medicine.
Damian – Apothecary
Cosmas - Physician
oldest pharmaceutical compound
Hiera Picra
Early trademarked
drug; which is composes of minerals
and was used as antidote for
poisons.
Terra Sigillata
Prince of Physicians of
Persian Galen
AVICENNA
Notable botanist and Pharmacist. • Known for his: 1. Compendium of Simples 2. Kitab al-Jami fi al-Adwiya al-Mufrada 3. “Hindiba”
IBN AL BAITAR
Greatest Arab Physician known
for his Liber Continens
RHAZES
First Apothecary Shop
BAGHDAD
Healing power of faith and divine
intervention.
ADVENT OF
CHRISTIANITY
served as the
centers of intellectual life
including pharmaco-medical
study and practice.
Monasteric Pharmacy
Father of American
Pharmacy
WILLIAM PROCTER JR.