Seperation of pharmacy and medicine
- Pharmacy differentiates in the middle ages, pharmaceutical knowledge available began to grow considerably thanks to the Arab world.
- Pharmacy as a separate activity began to develop and privately owned pharmacies were established in Islamic lands.
- Medicine and pharmacy were for the first time separated from each other.
- At the time of Fredrick II of Hohenstaufen, who was Emperor of Germany as well as king of sicily.
- This edict is known as the magna carta of pharmacy.
- The three decrees of the magna carta : * The Pharmaceutical Profession was to be seperated from the medical profession * The Pharmaceutical profession should be supervised officially. * Pharmacists should take an oath to prepare drugs reliable, according to skilled art and in a uniform suitable quality.
