PHA613 PersPharm - History Flashcards
Before the dawn of history, there were 2 things that people of before used to think and do. What are those?
Beliefs and Remedies
- Sickness caused by evil forces
- punishment from the gods
Before the Dawn of History
Beliefs
- Offer sacrifices like food and prayers
- Use of natural resources like plants, mud, animals and minerals.
Before the Dawn of History
Remedies
TRUE OR FALSE
Ancient man learned from logical reasoning of animals behavior
FALSE. They learned form INSTINCT & OBSERVATION
Ancient made use of what materials to create his FIRST Soothing application. Name the 4.
cool water
mud
leaves
dirt
The History of Pharmacy has three eras/ages. Name the 3 (in order)
Antiquity
Middle Ages
Modern Europe
What was “Pharmacy” called before?
Apothecary
This place was the cradle of civilization
Babylon
This was also called the “Jewel of ancient Mesopotamia”
Babylon
The EARLIEST known record of practice of the art of the apothecary was during what time?
Ancient Babylon
During the ancient of Babylon, name the 3 practitioners of healing
priests
pharmacists
physicians
All in One
the first record of the symptomsof illness, the prescription and directions for compounding, and invocation to the gods were recorded on a ___?
* Medical texts
Clay tablets of Mesopotamia (800 tablets)
In ancient China, the practice of pharmacy originated from whom?
Shen Nung (2000 BC)
Father of Chinese Pharmaceuticals
Shen Nung
Emperor who investigated the medicinal value of herbs
Shen Nung
_____ Native herbal plants: podophyllum, rhubarb, ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon bark, ma huang or ephedra
365
Shen Nung wrote a book called ___
Pen T-Sao (The Botanical Basis of Pharmacy), or native herbals
Lists 365 native herbal plants
a Taoist & natural philosopher
Lao Tzu (500 BC)
author of “The Way”
Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu promoted concept of health and prosperity through ____ and _____ of natural cosmic cycles
awareness and observance
promoted concept of health and prosperity through awareness and observance of natural cosmic cycles
Lao Tzu
balanced of Yin & Yang
Qi (energy)
TRUE OR FALSE
Yin is unbalanced, therefore Yang tries to balance it.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
In Ancient China, people rely on the concept of energy (Qi)
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
Yin and Yang are different but they complement each other
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
Yin and Yang if imbalanced causes illness
TRUE
Papyrus Ebers is under what ancient period?
Ancient Egypt
oldest, best known and most important pharmaceutical record
Papyrus Ebers
The Papyrus Ebers is how many yards (or ft) long?
21 yards (60ft)
The Papyrus Ebers contains __ Rx mentioning ____ drugs.
800 Rx; 700 drugs
What were the COMMON DOSAGE FORMS (Egyptian preparations) of Egyptians
MEMORIZE THIS!!!
gargles
suppositories
inhalations
poultices
ointments
Name the 3 Biblical Records (1200 BC)
Book of Sirach
Genesis
Exodus
creation of medicines by God
Book of Sirach
myrrh as astringent, carminative and protectant
Genesis
olibanum (frankinscence)
Exodus
Also called “Sealed Earth”
Terra Sigillata
- One day each year clay was dug from a pit on a Lemnos hillside in the presence of governmental and religious dignitaries
- washed, refined, rolled to a mass of proper thickness
- formed in to pastilles and impressed with an official seal by priestesses, then sun-dried
- the tablets were then widely distributed commercially
Terra Sigillata (Sealed Earth)
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates(460B.C.)
Terra Sigillata is present in what period?
Ancient Mediterranean
He sought the rationalization of treatment
Hippocrates
He showed the fundamentals of scientific method
Hippocrates
He used a scientific way of diagnosis and treatment
Father of Botany
Theophrastus (300 B.C.)
Philosopher and natural scientists
Theophrastus (300 B.C.)
Who are the two renowned person in Ancient Greece?
Hippocrates
Theophrastus
observations and writings dealing with the medical qualities and peculiarities of herbs are accurate, even in the light of present knowledge
Theophrastus(300 B.C.)
In this ancient period, there was a thin line separating therapeutic and toxicology.
Ancient Turkey
King of Pontus
Mithridates VI (100 B.C.)
Father of Toxicology/Royal Toxicologist
Mithridates VI (100 B.C.)
studied the art of poisoning and the art of preventing and counteracting poisoning
Mithridates VI (100 B.C.)
- Mitridates famed formula of alleged pan-antidotal powers
- popular for over a thousand years
- antidote against all kinds of poision
Mithridatum
One of the first therapeutic agents to bear a trademark as a means of identification of source and of gaining customers’ confidence
Terra Sigillata (Sealed Earth)
- a clay tablet originating on the Mediterranean island of Lemnos before 500 B.C.
Terra Sigillata (Sealed Earth)
Father of Pharmacology
Pedanios Dioscorides (1st A.D.)
Pedanios Dioscorides (1st A.D.) wrote a compiled his records and is called ____?
De Materia Medica
De Materia Medica recorded ___ plants and ___ minerals
600 plants and 90 minerals
What period is Pedanios Dioscorides part of?
Middle Ages
He recorded what he observed, promulgated excellent rules for collection of drugs, their storage and use (The Herbal)
a. who is he?
b. what is the record called?
a. Pedanios Dioscorides (1st A.D.)
b. De Materia Medica
TRUE OR FALSE.
The texts od Dioscorides were considered** basic science **as late as the 16th century
TRUE
First Pharmacist / Botanist
Claudius Galen (130-200 A.D.)
His principles of preparing and compounding medicines ruled in the Western world for 1,500 years
Claudius Galen (130-200 A.D.)
Practiced and taught both Pharmacy and Medicine in Rome
Claudius Galen (130-200 A.D.)
EXPERIMENTER IN DRUG COMPOUNDING
Claudius Galen (130-200 A.D.)
class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means
Galenicals
Galen was the originator of the formula for a ____
cold cream (Galen’s cerates)
basis of treaties on simple drugs
Galen’s medical writings
similar to dispensatories
Antidotaria
more modest formularies
Receptaria
PHARMACY’S PATRON SAINTS
DAMIAN AND COSMAS
the apothecary
Damian
the physician
Cosmas