In earliest times medicine was based in magic and religion.  Sumerians living around 4,000 BC believed that demons were the cause of ill...

The Earliest known record of the art of apothecary (the former of the pharmacist) is in Mesopotamia at about 2600 BC. Babylonia heali...

In ancient china (2000 BC) legend tells that emperor scen nung investigated the medical properties of hundreds of herbs. He recorded 36...

One of the earliest known records written around 1500 BC was the ebers. It is the best known and most important pharmaceutical record f...

Around 600 B.C the Greeks integrated science into mythological thinking. The began thinking Logically about disease rather than believi...

His Observations about the medicinal qualities of herbs have proven uncannily accurate. Theophrastus covered most aspects of botany: de...

He was a philosopher, physician and pharmacist. He liberated medicine from the mythical "Bad Spirits". Established the the...

He was a Greek physician and botanist. Wrote the first standard text/manual or Drugs called De materia medica, also called Pharmacopoei...

Pharmacology :  The study of drugs ( from Greek pharmakon means Drug). Pharmacognosy : The Study of physical, chemical, biochemical a...

Galen (A.D 130 - 200) was a prominent roman (of Greek ethnicity) Physician, urgeon, and Philosopher. Developed Principles of preparing ...

Whats's more from the Roman era came the twin brothers Damian and cosmas. they were christians of arabian descent. Damian was the apot...

Pharmacopeia : Marker of remedies. Pharmacotritae : Drug Grinders. Unguentarii : Markers of Ointments. Pigmentarii : Marker o...

Major advances in this era. Formularies : The continuation of documentation of drug information. They also had different drug forms ...

The first pharmacy shop in the world was in baghdad about 792 A.D. They Preserved much of the Greco - Roman wisdom, added to it, develo...

Ibn sina (980 - 1037 A.D) - Avicenna - intellectual giant, he was a physician, poet philosopher, diplomat. His canon medicine brought t...

The middle ages :  Pharmacy differentiates in the middle ages, pharmaceutical knowledge available began to grow considerably thanks to ...

Theophrastus phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim. Swiss born physician who believed in chemical treatment of disease rather tha...

Following the middle ages, many parts of European society -examined the Greek and Roman tenets ( (Theories, Ideology) that they had as fac...

The idea of a pharmacopoeia with official status, to be followed by all apothecaries originated in Florence. It was the result of colla...

In England, the pharmacist was under jurisdiction of guild of grocers, which monopolized the drug and spice trade. King James granted a...

pharmacopeias were used to protect public health. Roots, bark, herbs, flowers etc. were used and controlled by the government. They ...

When Sr. Albert B.Prescott launched the pharmacy courcy at the university of Michigan in 1868, critical attention was aroused because he a...

william proctor . The father of American Pharmacy. He spent most of his life to the advancement of pharmacy. He owned an apotheca...

The Average Life span in the united states increased by over twenty years in the 20th century. A major factor in the increased health a...

Monitors drugs before a drug is marketed in the united states. The United States Food and Drug Admin...

Introduction: Anatomical terms in relation to parts of the body, system and organs. Elementary knowledge of the human skeleton; Tissues o...

a) Classification of Inorganic Pharmaceuticals based on their applications, therapeutic classes with example and uses.  b) Quality...

Pharmacy profession: Pharmacy as a career, Pharmaceutical Education, Registration as a Pharmacist, Brief introduction to Evolution of...

Plant Kingdom: Definition and Classification  Plant cells: Its structure, living and non-living inclusions. Different types of pla...