(Prelim) Heritage of Pharmacy Flashcards
the art of apothecary
First Apothecary
knowledge of drugs and disease meant “power”
First Apothecary
apothecary combined with priestly functions
First Apothecary
- Ebers papyrus
- Mineral
- Animal excrements
- Vehicles used
Early Drugs
- Discovered by Georg Ebers
- MT 800 formulas
- MT 700 drugs Botanical
Ebers papyrus
The Egyptians commonly used mortar, and pestles, hand mills, sieves, and balances in their compounding of suppositories, gargles, pills, inhalations, troches, lotions, ointments, plasters, and enemas
Early Drugs
father of medicine
Hippocrates
Introduction of scientific pharmacy and medicine
Hippocrates
1st to deal with botany as an applied science of pharmacy
Dioscorides
Hippocratic oath of ethical behavior for the healing professions
Hippocrates
De Materia Medica
Dioscorides
Opium, Ergot, Hyoscyamus
Dioscorides
Credited with 500 treaties on medicine & some 250 others on philosophy, law & grammar
Claudius Galen
Medical writings
Claudius Galen
descriptions of numerous drugs of natural origin with a profusion of drug formulas and methods of compounding
Medical writings