1. Pharmacy history

2. Pharmacy in ancient times
It was practiced in prehistoric times as people used the water, plants and earth around them for soothing compresses on wounds and ailments.
Babylonian healing practitioners combined the responsibilities of priest, physician, and pharmacist
some oldest pharmacy records are found in Sumerian clay cuneiform tablets that date about 200 B.C.

3. Pharmacy in ancient times
An ancient china (circa 200 B.C)-investigation of the medical properties of hundreds of herbs
Retailers of drugs were concentrated on certain street in Babylon by 2111 B.C

4. Pharmacy in ancient times
Egyptian priest, prepared medicines. The Ebers papyrus dates from B.C . it contains 800 prescriptions using 700 drugs, of particular note in the papyrus is inclusion of quantities of substances.
Many modern dosage forms are referred to in the Ebers papyrus (gargles, snuffs, inhalations, lotions, ointments…..)

5. Pharmacy in ancient times
Ancient Greece lived the father of botany, Theophrastus (300 B.C) , his observations about the medicinal qualities of herbs have proven to be very accurate
Hippocrates surmised that disease was caused by an imbalance of bad humors

6. Pharmacy in ancient times
Ancient Rome, Galen (A.D ) .
Developed principles of preparing and compounding medicinal agents

7. Pharmacy differentiate during middle ages
Pharmaceutical knowledge and the number of drugs available grew considerably during the Middle Ages, thanks primarily to the Arabic world.
Pharmacy as a separate activity began to develop and privately owned pharmacies were established in Islamic lands.
First known apothecary shop was opened in Baghdad in the 18th century, and the Muslims carried this concept into Europe during wars and other excursions into Africa, Spain, southern France

8. Pharmacy differentiate during middle ages
Ibn Sina Canon Medicinae brought together the best knowledge of the Greeks and Arabs into a single medical text

9. Pharmacy differentiate during middle ages
German emperor Frederick II issued an edict in about 1240 that legally separated pharmacy from medicine in southern Italy and Sicily. Known as the Magna Carta of Pharmacy, the edict contained three decrees:
1- The pharmaceutical profession was to be separated from the medical profession
2- The pharmaceutical profession should be supervised officially
3- pharmacists should take an oath to prepare drugs reliably, according to skilled art, and in a uniform suitable quality.

10. The Arabian Influence
The advances made in the Middle East in botany and chemistry led medicine in medieval Islam substantially to develop pharmacology.
Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi (Rhazes) ( ), for instance, acted to promote the medical uses of chemical compounds.

11. Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi(Abulcasis) ( ) started the preparation of medicines by sublimation and distillation.
Ibn Sina too, described no less than 700 preparations, their properties, mode of action and their indications.

12. Sabur Ibn Sahl (869), was, however, the first physician to initiate pharmacopoedia, describing a large variety of drugs for diseases.
Al-Biruni( ) wrote one of the most valuable Islamic works on pharmacology entitled Kitab al-Saydalah (The Book of Drugs), where he gave detailed knowledge of the properties of drugs and summarized the role of pharmacy and the functions and duties of the pharmacist.

13. The Renaissance: Pharmacists Flourished Too
Following the middle ages, many parts of European society Re- examined the Greek and roman studies.

14. The Renaissance: Pharmacists Flourished Too
Pharmacy become separated from medicine
Pharmacy Regulation Began
University education for pharmacists was now required
Extensive Pharmaceutical Literature was created
New chemicals were introduced

15. Pharmacy in the united state: the early days
With the Increased recognition and application of the scientific method in the 1700s, modern pharmacy emerged.
Progress in organic, inorganic chemistry, immunology, and chemotherapy began to change pharmacy from empirically based profession to a knowledge based one

16. Pharmacy in the united state: the early days
Many types of pharmacist could be found in the Americas by the 18th century: the dispensing physician, the apothecary shop, the general store, and the wholesale druggist.
Dispensing physicians became less and less common, dying out around the end of the nineteenth century.

17. Pharmacy in the united state: the nineteenth century
1800s states were issuing licenses to apothecaries
1st licenses to apothecaries was south Carolina
1821 the Philadelphia college of pharmacy (PCP) was founded, 1st pharmacy organization in the united states , other schools followed quickly

18. Pharmacy in the united state: the nineteenth century
Begin manufacturing And selling chemical in the late 1700s, this was the basis of establishing pharmaceutical companies
World was changing from agriculturally based economy to an industry based one and pharmacy found itself caught in this shift.
Manufacturing of some drugs using newly discovered principles of chemistry

19. Pharmacy in the united state: the nineteenth century
In the later half of the nineteenth century, pharmacy apprentices with several years’ experience in apothecary shops would attend school for a limited amount of time before coming licensed pharmacist

20. Twentieth century pharmacy: a business or a profession
More and more products were produced ready to dispense, pharmaceutical industry become stronger

21. Twentieth century pharmacy: a business or a profession
Problems with adulteration and quackery caused the united states congress to pass the pure food and drug act in 1906.
In Germany, new discoveries in organic chemistry were making possible the increased rational design of drugs

22. Twentieth century pharmacy: a business or a profession
The technology, scientific knowledge and need were present all at once and post-world war II pharmaceutical industry began producing drugs that were much more powerful and specific than those available previously.

23. Twentieth century pharmacy
The art of compounding rapidly become less important.
The knowledge about the drugs, their mechanisms of actions, and their side effects become much more complicated.

24. Eras Ancient Era Beginning of time to 1600 AD
Empiric Era – 1600 to 1940
Industrialization Era to 1970
Patient Care Era 1970 to present

25. Patient Care Era
New problems – complications like allergic reactions , multiple drug interactions with other drugs and foods
Increased the therapeutic duties of patient care in the pharmacies and hospitals

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