M1: Lesson 1 Flashcards
art and science of preparing drugs
Pharmacy
a person considered as medication
or drug expert.
Pharmacist
A legally granted responsibility to handle drugs
and to know all about those drugs
Pharmacist
Ancient Through Early Modern Era
Human
prehistory to AD 1500
Five Historical Periods in Pharmacy
- Ancient through early modern era
- Empiric Era
- Industrialization Era
- Patient-Care Era
- Biotechnology and genetic engineering
Empiric Era
1600 to 1940
Patient care era
1970 to present
Biotechnology and genetic engineering
The new horizon
Decides based on Instincts and help of nature
Ancient through early modern era (Before the dawn of history)
Decides based on the belief that people got sick: victim of evil forces,
God’s anger and punishment
Before the Dawn of History (Ancient through early modern era
**Ancient man
Provided the
earliest practice apothecary.
Pharmacy in Ancient Babylonia
One who prepares and sells drugs or
compounds for medicinal purposes
Apothecary
Medical texts on clay tablets
record the symptoms of illness,
prescription and directions for
compounding, and invocation to
the gods
Pharmacy in Ancient babylonia
2 Types of Medical care in Babylonia
Ashipu/asipu & Asu
Magical healer or
Sorcerer/exorcist
Ashipu or Asipu
Rely on spells and magical
stones
Ashipu or asipu
• Empirical healer or
physician
Asu
Make use of plant
materials for healing
Asu
written the Pen Tsao
that contains 350 different herbal
drugs and tested many of them on
himself (podophyllum, rhubarb,
ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon
bark, ephedra and ma huang).
Shen nung
Discovery of Pen Tsao
that contains 350 different herbal
drugs and tested many of them on
himself (podophyllum, rhubarb,
ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon
bark, ephedra and ma huang).
Pharmacy in Ancient China
Papyrus Ebers:
Pharmacy in Ancient Egypt
the best known and most important
pharmaceutical record that contains 800
prescriptions, mentioning 700 drugs.
Papyrus Ebers
Discovered enemas, infusions, inhalations, lotions,
acacia, onions, aloe, castor oil and opium
Papyrus Ebers
Symbol of Pharmacy
Bowl of Hygeia
record the symptoms of illness,
prescription and directions for
compounding, and invocation to
the gods.
Clay tablets
ancient Greek symbol of
medicine
Rod of Asclepius
(God of the healing art) was believed to
impact healing by touching one with his staff or serpent.
Asclepius
the international symbol of the
pharmacy profession
Bowl of Hygeia
the goddess of health, cleanliness and
sanitation)
Hygeia
Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
Introduction of scientific
pharmacy and medicine
Hippocrates
Classification of illnesses:
• Acute or Chronic
• Endemic or Epidemic
Hippocrates
Hippocratic Oath or Oath of
Hippocrates
Greek medical text
Father of Botany
Theophrastus
Greek Physician and
Botanist
Pedanius Dioscorides
excellent rules for
collection of drugs, their storage and use.
De Materia Medica
Published De Materia Medica
Pedanius Dioscorides
The Royal Toxicologist
Mithridates VI
He believed that constant exposure would build in
him an immunity to being poisoned by his enemies.
Mithridates VI
one of the best known
antidotes which is believed to be a universal
antidote in ancient time.
Mithridate
He invented Mithridate
Mithridates VI
Experimenter in Drug Compounding
Claudius Galen
Galenical formulations or galenicals
Claudius Galen
He invented the first cosmetic cream
Claudius Galen
Cosmetic cream
Cold cream
An early “trademarked” drug
Terra sigillata
Clay was formed into pastilles and impressed with
an official seal by priestesses, then sun-dried.
Terra sigillata
the apothecary (Pharmacy)
Damian
the physician (Medicine)
Cosmas
They both embraced Christianity and practiced
medicine and surgery without a fee
Damian & cosmas
The monks gathered herbs in
the field, raised them in their
own herb gardens.
Monastic pharmacy
Manuscripts from many
islands were translated or
copied for monastery libraries
Monastic Pharmacy
Pharmacy in Arabian history
The Arabs separated the
arts of apothecary and
physician
First privately owned drug
stores
Pharmacy in Arabian Era
The first apothecary shops
Pharmacy in Arabian Era
Persian
Galen
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
intended
to “cure” or “heal” ignorance of
the soul
The book of healing
presents an overview of the
contemporary medical
knowledge of the medieval
Islamic world.
The Canon of Medicine
2 books of Ibn Sina (Avicenna
- The book of healing
- The Canon of Medicine
Magna Carta of
Pharmacy
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen