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What occured around 2400 B.C., Babylon of ancient Mesopotamia?

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The earliest known record of practice of the art of apothecary.

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These were clay tablets in which the first sign of sickness, the prescription, and the compounding instructions were written.

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Sumerian cuneiform

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Practitioners of healing around 2400 B.C., Babylon, of ancient Mesopotamia

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These were priests, pharmacists, and physicians

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A chinese emperor around 2000 B.C. who wrote Pen T-Sao

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Shen Nung

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Pen T-Sao

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A collection of 365 native herbs written by a chinese emperor

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Native herbs mentioned Pen T-Sao

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podophyllum, rhubarb, ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon bark, ma huang or ephedra

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A medicinal record from ancient Egypt that contains a collection of 800 prescriptions, 700 medications, and recorded formulas

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Papyrus Ebers

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Recorded formulas in a medicinal record from ancient Egypt around 1500 B.C.

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lotions, inhalations, gargles, tablets, ointments, and poultices

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It is where the earliest recorded occurrence of a compounded medication in Indian traditional medicine

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Sushrata Samhita

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An early trademarked drug around 500 B.C.

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Terra Sigillata

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A Greek philosopher in 300 B.C. and natural scientist who is referred to as The Father of Botany

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Theophrastus

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Around 300 B.C., he was referred to as The Royal Toxicologist

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Mithridates VI— King of Pontus

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The reason why Mithridates VI was called The Royal Toxicologist

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He pursued to discover the art of poisoning, avoiding poison, and treating it

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Mithridates VI’s widely recognized antidote for poisonous substances

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Mithridatum

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The contribution of monasteries in Pharmacy and Medicine from the 5th to 12th century

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Remnants of knowledge were preserved, translated, and copied in monasteries and an herbal garden was raised to benefit the sick and the injured

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The first privately owned apothecary store

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Baghdad

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An Arab physician who introduced the use of mercurial ointments and the development of apparatuses

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Abu Bakr al-Razi or Rhazes

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The apparatuses used in pharmacies until the early 20th century

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mortars, flasks, spatulas, and vials

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The first hospital in Colonial America in Philadelphia

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Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751

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The founders of Pennsylvania Hospital

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Dr. Thomas Bond & Benjamin Franklin

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America’s first Hospital Pharmacist

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Jonathan Roberts, who was hired in 1752

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Jonathan Roberts’s successor who proposed that the practices of medicine and pharmacy be separate

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John Morgan

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A German-Swedish Pharmaceutical Pharmacist who was known for discovering oxygen, chlorine, and manganese

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Carl Wilhelm Scheele, 1742–1786

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The complete list of Scheele’s discoveries

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4 gases, 6 inorganic acids, 5 organic acids, the isolation of glycerin and lactose, and the determination of composition of Prussian Blue (ferric ferrocyanide) and borax

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One of the first alkaloid chemists, a German pharmacist who discovered Morphine
Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Serturner, 1783–1841
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Opium's chief narcotic principle
Morphine
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Sertuner's discovery of new organic substances
Alkaloids
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Aided to regulate to practice of dispensing medicine and encouraged pharmacists to develop relations with physicians
American Pharmaceutical Association, 1852
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The patriarch of American Pharmacy: founder of the first College of Pharmacy in the US, the first American pharmacy journal, and the first national professional association
Daniel B. Smith, 1792–1883
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The first College of Pharmacy in the United States of America
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1821
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Smith's protégé and colleague. A practitioner, experimenter, editor, association leader and professor, and the Father of American Pharmacy
William Procter Jr., 1817–1874
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The creation of 11 physicians who met at the US Capitol in Washington DC
The first United States Pharmacopoeia, published as, "The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America", 1820
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A creation of the American Pharmaceutical Association aimed to serve as a resource and formulary for small-scale compounding of medicines
National Formulary, 1888
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It contains monographs and standards for medicines, finished drug dosage forms, active drug substances, excipients, biologics, compounded preparations, medical devices, dietary supplements, and many other therapeutics
USP-NF
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An American explorer, botanist, and pharmacist who collected 60,000 botanical specimens, described a thousand new species, and is cited as the author of 49 taxon names.
Henry Hurd Rusby, 1855–1940
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The mentioned species and alkaloid that bears Henry Hurd Rusby's name
Rusby Britton, Rusbyanthus Gilg, Rusbyella Rolfe ex Rusby, and the alkaloid Rusbyine
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A German medical scientist who published a memoir, which laid the foundation for all future work on biological standardization.
Paul Ehrlich, 1854–1915
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Ehrlich's pioneering works
contributions in hematology, immunology, chemotherapy, and the discovery of the first effective treatment for syphilis
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The start of biological products made from microorganisms
The discovery of diphtheria antitoxin
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The people who were involved in the discovery of diphtheria antitoxin
Behring and Roux, 1894
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Ehrlich's memoir
The Potency Estimation of diphtheria antiserum and its theoretical basis
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Also known as Salvarasan or compound 606, the first effective treatment for syphilis, relapsing fever, and African trypanosomiasis
Arsphenamine, circa 1910s
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A French Pharmacist who worked 30 years in Institut Pasteur in Paris and developed a spinal anesthesia
Ernest Francois Auguste Fourneau, 1872–1949
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A spinal anesthesia that contains Amylocaine
Stovaine, 1904
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The first synthetic and non-addictive local anesthetic that is present in Stovaine, 1904
Amylocaine
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It is what paved the way for the development of sulfonamide drugs and antihistamines
Fourneau's early works with bismuth and arsenic compounds
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The people involved in the isolation of hormone insulin from dogs
Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best, 1921
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The people involved in the isolation of hormone insulin from dogs
Dr. Frederick Banting and Charles Best, 1921
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The German company that was found in Darmstadt in 1668
Merck
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The person who began the transition towards an industrial and scientific concern, by manufacturing and selling alkaloids in 1827
Heinrich Emanuel Merck
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The company who was involved in the industrial production of medicine producing patents in 1842 and the first factory for producing only medicines in 1859.
Beecham
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The founders of Pfizer in 1849
Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart
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The reason why Pfizer succeeded
Pfizer was providing painkillers and antiseptics during the American Civil War
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A young cavalry commander who set up a pharmaceutical business in 1876 after his military career
Colonel Eli Lilly
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A naval doctor who supplied medicines during the Mexican-American war
Edward Robinson Squibb
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Why was Switzerland accused of being a pirate state?
They lacked patents
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Who commercialised Aspirin in the 20th century?
Bayer, 1863
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Who discovered the first antibiotic, Penicillin?
Alexander Flemming, 1928
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The first commercialized antibacterial in 1930
Prontosil, a sulfonamide
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Who commercialized Prontosil?
Gerhard Domagk
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Who commercialized and upscaled Penicillin in 1945?
Howard Florey and Ernest Boris Chain
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The Golden Era of Antibiotics
1940–1962
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The creator of De Materia Medica
Pedanius Dioscorides
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He is associated with Galenicals and cold cream and the first pharmacist to use pulse as a sign of illness
Claudius Galenus
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The twin brothers of arabian descent who were referred to as, the "silver ones"
Damian, the apothecary; and Cosmas, the physician

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