Terms and Facts Flashcards
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Pharmakon
Greek word from which the word Pharmacy is derived
Plato’s Dialogues defines pharmakon as:
remedy, poison, drug, recipe, charm, medicine, substance, spell, artificial color, and paint.
pharmakopole
a person skilled with pharmakon - a highly diversified skill
shamans
witch doctors
Ancient Pharmacy
- Medicinal substances used since prehistoric times
- Magic was believed to be involved in early medicine
- No early distinction between physician or pharmacy and both classes of healers made their own medicine and treated patients.
Renaissance Pharmacy
(1300-1700 ad)
- Pharmacist and Physician began to seperate into different professions.
- Magic grew to have less of an impact in medicine
guild
- union
- association with rigid supervision
- at close of 12th centurt, Florence Italy physicians and pharmacists formed the first guild.
printing press
had a profound effect on the growth of pharmacy bc it allowed textbooks to be printed and facilitated learning at universities
apothecary shops
reniassance name for pharmacy
apothecary or apothecaries
early name for pharmacist (what the person working in the apothecary shop was called)
apprenticeship system
allowed training under a currenty pharmacist with the goal of learning the profession and opening their own apothecary shop
apothecary apprentices
can be though of as the original pharmacy students
King James I
established western societies first independent pharmacist guild in England during the early 17th century
Community Pharmacies during Renaissance
prepared and dispensed remedies while offering front-line medical advice to their customers
druggists
early designation for pharmacists who sold wholesale to apothecary shops (today: pharmaceutical manufacturers)
War of 1812
- Gave rise to the Hospital Pharmacist
- Pharmacist and Physican now seen as different professions
- Became unethical for physician to have their own pharmacy due to unscrupulus physicians making money by over-prescribing medications to gullible patients
USP
- United States Pharmacopeia
- Est. 1820
- 1st compendium of standard drugs in the U.S.
- Provides standards for both active and inactive ingredients
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Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
- Est. 1821
- 1st pharmacy college in America
APhA
- American Pharmaceutical Association
- Est. 1852
- Began to sponsor and publish the USP and also the National Formulary (NF)
NF
- National Formulary
USP & NF
- United States Pharmacopeia
- National Formulary
- Two books sponsored and published by the APhA (1852) as books of standard pharmaceutical preparations with established quality standards that ensured consistant medicines
Pure Food and Drug Act
- 1906
- Established the USP and NF as the official books of standards for American pharmaceuticals
- Prohibited transportation of adulterated or misbranded food and drugs
- Required drug manufacturers to prove to the FDA the safety and effectiveness of products before they were legally permitted to market them to the public
Edward Parrish
- Successfully proposed that members of the APhA categorize all the various pharmaceutical practitioners as Pharmacists, which formally identified the field as a profession
Pharmacists
- Term first used by Edward Parrish
- 1850’s all apothecaries formally called Pharmacists
- Made and prescribed medicines and remained community medical counselors