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History of Pharmacy Flashcards

1
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Explain the beliefs before the dawn of history

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sickness is caused by evil forces or as a punishment from the gods

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Explain the remedies before the dawn of history

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offerings and the use of natural resources (e.g. plants, mud)

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The history of pharmacy is divided into three, what are they?

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Antiquity, Middle Ages and Modern Europe

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It is considered the jewel of mesopotamia

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Ancient babylon

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It is the cradle of civilization

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Ancient babylon

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Where the earliest known practice of the art of apothecary was shown

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Ancient babylon

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Practitioners

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priest, physician and pharmacist as one

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These are the medical texts that have the records of symptoms of illness, prescription, direction for compounding and invocation to the gods

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Clay tablets of Mesopotamia

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9
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How many of the clay tablets were formed

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800 tablets

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10
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Father of Chinese pharmaceuticals, also known as the “yellow emperor”

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Shen Nung

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11
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Explored the medicinal values of herbs

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Shen Nung

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Wrote “Pen T-Sao (The Botanical Basis of Pharmacy)”

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Shen Nung

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13
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A taoist and natural philosopher

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Lao Tzu

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14
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Author of “The Way”

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Lao Tzu

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15
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What did Lao Tzu promoted?

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concept of health and prosperity through awareness and observation of natural cosmic cycles

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16
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It is the balanced Yin and Yang

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Qi (energy)

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17
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It is the oldest, best known and most important pharmaceutical record

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Papyrus Ebers

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18
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Their preparations are ethnomedicinal and it includes gargles, suppositories, inhalations, poultices and ointments

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Ancient Egypt

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19
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How long was the papyrus ebers in yards?

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21 yards

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20
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The papyrus ebers contains ________ and mentioned ______ drugs

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800 formulas in preparing drugs, 700 drugs were mentioned

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21
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Creation of medicines by God

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Book of Sirach

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22
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Myrrh as astringent, carminative and protectant

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Genesis

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23
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Olibanum (frankinscence)

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Exodus

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24
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Father of Medicine

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Hippocrates

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25
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Sought the rationalization of treatment

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Hippocrates

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26
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Showed the fundamentals of scientific method

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Hippocrates

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27
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Father of Botany

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Theophrastus

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28
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Observations and writings dealing with medical qualities and peculiarities of herbs

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Theophrastus

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29
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King of Pontus

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Mithridates VI

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30
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Father of Toxicology (study of poison)

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Mithridates VI

31
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It is the art of poisoning and the art of preventing and counteracting poisoning

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Toxicology

32
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Famed formula during the Ancient Turkey of alleged pan-antidotal powers

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Mithridatum

33
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One of the first therapeutic agents to bear a trademark as a mean of identification of source and gaining customers’ confidence

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Terra Sigillata (Sealed Earth)

34
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Clay tablet originating on the Mediterranean island of Lemnos

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Terra Sigillata (Sealed Earth)

35
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Father of Pharmacology

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Pedanios Dioscorides

36
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Who made a book about the observation of promulgated excellent rules for collection of drugs, storage and use (The Herbal)?

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Pedanios Dioscorides

37
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Who made the “De Materia Medica” (600 plants and 90 minerals)

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Pedanios Dioscorides

38
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His texts were considered basic science as late as the 16th century

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Pedanios Dioscorides

39
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First ever pharmacist / botanist

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Claudius Galen

40
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Practiced and taught Pharmacy and Medicine in Rome

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Claudius Galen

41
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His principles of preparing and compounding medicines ruled in the Western World for 1,500 years

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Claudius Galen

42
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Class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means

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Galenicals

43
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Claudius Galen is the originator of the formula for a cold cream called?

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Galen’s cerates (cerates = cream)

44
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Similar to “dispensatories”

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Antidotaria

45
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More modest formularies

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Receptaria

46
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Twinship of health professionals

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Damian and Cosmas

47
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On the twinship, who is the apothecary and who is the physician?

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Apothecary - Damian

Physician - Cosmas

48
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These are your pharmacy’s patron saints

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Damian and Cosmas

49
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What descent are Damian and Cosmas

50
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T or F: The careers of Damian and Cosmas were cut short in the year 303 by marytrdom.

51
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Practice of pharmacy and medicine passed from lay practitioners to the clerics (people of the church)

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Monastic pharmacy

52
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Center of intellectual life

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Monasteries

53
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During the monastic pharmacy, these are the people who collected and cultivated medicinal plants

54
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Manuscript made by Abbod Odo in France

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De Viribus Herbarum (Herbs used by the People)

55
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Manuscript made by Abbess Hildegard in Germany

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Causae et Curae

56
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Separated the arts of apothecary and physician

57
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Where was the first privately owned drugstore

58
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Developed more refined and elegant way of administering drugs

59
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Known as “Avicenna”

60
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Also known as the “Persian Galen”

61
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His pharmaceutical teachings - contribution to the sciences of Pharmacy and Medicine

62
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The Magna Carta of 1240 is issued by who

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Frederick II, head of the holy roman empire

63
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T or F: According to the Magna Carta of 1240, the edict was to create pharmacy as an independent branch of public welfare service

64
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Pharmacy and medicine was separated in __?

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Sicily and Southern Italy

65
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Here are some of the implementations under the Magna Carta of 1240

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  • Limitation of the numbers of pharmacies
  • Fixed the prices of remedies
  • Required official supervision (pharmacist)
  • made the use of prescribed formulary compulsory (book, list of drugs)
66
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Revolutionized pharmacy

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Paracelsus

67
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Who discovered the medicinal active “quintessences” (bioactive ingredients) from natural resources

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Paracelsus

68
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Transformed pharmacy from botanical science to chemical science

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Paracelsus

69
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The first official pharmacopeia is named ___ and was written in ___?

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Nuovo Receptario, Italian

70
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In 1617, someone formed a separated company. What is his or her name?

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Sir Frances Bacon

71
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The first organization of pharmacists in the Anglo-Saxon World

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The Society of Apothecaries of London

72
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Cradle of European Professional Pharmacy

73
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First official pharmacopoeia of the European world

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Ricettario Florentino

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