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Pharmacy History Flashcards

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2600 BCE, healers were priests, pharmacists and physicians all in one where

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Babylon

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Methradaes IV developed an immunity to poisons by

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Living in the wilderness for 7 years

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Document title which means “compendium of wandering physicians” and is the work of multiple authors

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Charak Samhita

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Hippocrates was a 3rd generation physician, philosopher, and processes at which school

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Cos school of medicine

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Frederick II

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Presented the first European edict completely separating the responsibilities of pharmacy and medicine in 1240 CE

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Nuovo receptaro published in 1498 was a collaboration between the _____ and the medical society in the city of Florence

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Guilds of apothecaries

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In addition to being the fist to provide apothecary production in the us colonies, John Winthrop was also

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The first governor of the Massachusetts bay colony

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Elizabeth Marshall

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First female pharmacist and the granddaughter of Irish immigrant who established a apothecary shop in Philadelphia in 1729

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Founded the American pharmaceutical association

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Daniel b smith & william proctor jr

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“Father of American pharmacy”

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William Proctor Jr

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Founded in 1872 the American pharmaceutical association is now known as

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American pharmacists association

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Organization that pioneer the evolution of pharmacy technician originally called pharmacy specialists

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US army

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Andrew Craigie

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First apothecary general of the US

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Organization open to “all pharmacists & druggists of good character who subscribed to its constitution and its code of ethics”

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American pharmaceutical association

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Developed an injectable polio vaccine and tested on nearly 2,000,000 school children

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Jonas Salk

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Theophrastus

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The father of botany who categorized plants in 300 BCE

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Galen

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Personal physician for the Roman imperial family after attending medical school in Greece and Egypt

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Named for an ancient Roman physician the class o pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means is called

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Galenicals

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Combined their Greco-Roman medical practices with their own natural resources to develop syrups, confections, conserves, distilled water, and alcoholic liquids during the Middle Ages

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The arabs

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Papyrus Ebers

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Manuscript is a collection of 800 prescriptions, specifically mentioning 700 unique drugs, and is the most important pharmaceutical document known from ancient Egypt

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Shen Nung

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Patron god of native Chinese drug guilds, wrote the Pen T-Sao

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Pen T-Sao included how many recordings

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365 different hurbs

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Hippocrates

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Physician who lived between 460 and 377 BCE believed that health was based on harmony between 4 basic bodily fluids known as the father of medicine

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Number of drugs recorded in the Charaka Samhita

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2,000

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The Rx symbol was originally

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An invocation of the Roman god Jupiter asking for his aid in effective treatment

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Terra Sigilata “sealed earth”

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First therapeutic agent to bear a trade mark and was made of clay

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NPTA was established in (national pharmacy technician association)

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Hippocrates theory of humors bodily fluids and meanings

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Blood - happy & joyful
Bodily phlegm - lethargy
Yellow bile- irritable
Black bile - angry

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ASHP stands for

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American society of health - system pharmacists

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What year did the ASHP accredit the first pharmacy tech training program

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Developed poisons b y testing them on himself in small doses

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Mithradates

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5 volume book de material medica contained information on more then 600 plants and minerals was written by

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Discorides

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Practiced and taught both pharmacy and medicine in Rome from 130 to 200 CE

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Practiced and taught both pharmacy and medicine in Rome from 130 to 200 CE

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Idea of an official pharmacopoeia to contain a list of pharmaceutical products along with their formulae and methods of preparation first originated

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Nuovo Receptario

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Became legal standard for pharmaceuticals in the city of Florence in 1498

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First organization for pharmacists in the Anglo - Saxon world, established by a charter from king James I in 1617

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Master, wardens, and society of the art of mystery of the apothecaries of the city of London

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John winthrop

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First person to provide apothecary products in the US colonies

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The practice of pharmacy combines the advances and expectations of the previous era into an overarching philosophy called

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Pharmaceutical care

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Jonathan roberts

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First hospital pharmacist

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Successor of first hospital pharmacist, influence made important changes, supported the use of written prescriptions

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John Morgan

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De material medica

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5 volume book noting rules for collecting, storing and using drugs

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Pharmacopoeia first originated in

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ExCPT & NHA

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Exams for the certification of pharmacy technicians & national health care association

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PTCB

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Pharmacy technician certification board , certified over 425,000

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Alexander Fleming

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Discovered pencilling by accident, was not mass produced until WWII

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Federal government began regulating pharmacy practice in

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APhA

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American pharmacy association

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American pharmaceutical association was created to meet needs for better communication between pharmacists, standards for education and quality control over exported drugs by

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Daniel B smith and William proctor jr

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Christopher marshal

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Established apothecary shop in Philadelphia, became leading retail apothecary, first large scale chemical manufacturers, training school for pharmacists and supply depot

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Provided apothecary products by selling imported drugs and natural remedies with plants native to England

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John Winthrop

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Father of toxicology

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Mithradates VI after coming up with first “universal antidote”

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Pharmakon means

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Rx means

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Recipe recipe or recipe in Latin

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Gregor Mendel

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father of modern genetics, showed inheritance of traits following particular laws

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In 1821

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First pharmacy college with its own self policing board

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Benjamin franklin

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Created first established hospital in Philadelphia in 1751 with hospital pharmacy beginning in 1752 where they supported the use of writhed prescriptions

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Pharmacopoeia

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Complilation or listing of pharmaceutical products also containing formulas and methods of preparation

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Fist Angelo - Saxon organization of pharmacists

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Apothecaries finally broke away from shop keepers

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United States Pharmacopoiea created to set standards as a nation

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(USP) in 1820

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