Origins/History Flashcards
(14 cards)
wrote “De Materia Medica”
Dioscorides
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Father of Pharmacy
Galen
First to conduct animal experiments
Galen
Produced classification of drugs and organized 6 centuries of knowledge
Galen
believed illness was physical rather than spiritual.
Hippocrates
who ran the first pharmacies
physicians
where does the word pharmacy come from?
greek word “Pharmakon”, meaning drug and remedy
3 main settings of pharmacy practice
community, institutional, international
other ways people get prescription drugs
online, community health nurses, streets, samples
services pharmacies provide
consultation, automatic refill, diabetes consultation, blood pressure testing, prescription delivery
how far is prescription delivery
city wide
Who was considered to be Canada’s first apothecary?
Louis Herbert
what organization in Manitoba presently fulfills the same role as a professional apothecary’s Guild of the Middle Ages?
Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association