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Ancient man learned from instincts and animals. Cool leaves and mud were used as the first soothing application. Caveman methods were crude but many of today's methods come from their early knowledge.
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An apothicary in Babylon is the first recorded pharmacy. Practitioners of healing were preist, pharmacist, and doctor all in one.
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Ancient chinese pharmacy had 365 recorded drugs and use words still referenced to this day.
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"Papyrus Ebers" was a collection of 800 prescriptions,
mentioning 700 drugs. Two ancient egyption healers directed all the drugs used. -
Theophrastus was an early Greek philosopher and natural
scientist called the "father of botany." He found the properties of herbs and their medical qualities and recorded them. -
Mithridates VI, King of Pontus discovered poisoning, but also preventing and counteracting poisoning. His formula, Mithridatum,"
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Dioscorides recorded things that he observed, wrote rules for collection of drugs, their storage and use. His findings were considered basic science as late as the 16th century.
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Gallen practiced and taught Pharmacy and Medicine in Rome. His discoveries were used for 1,500 years; and his name still is associated with that class of drugs - galenicals.
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Monks gathered herbs in the fields, or grew them in their own herb gardens. They prepared according to the art of
the apothecary for the benefit of the sick. Gardens such as these still may be found in monasteries in many countries. -
The first public apothecary shops were opened in Bhagdad.
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Pharmacy was separated from medicine. Pharmacy was strictly giving out the prescribed drug instead of diagnostics also.
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American pharmacy builds its foundations. 68 pharmacists signed the Constitution of the first pharmaceutical association in the United
States.