Pharmacist

By meghan3498
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Ancient Times

    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.
  • Jan 1, 1001

    2600 B.C

    An apothicary in Babylon is the first recorded pharmacy. Practitioners of healing were preist, pharmacist, and doctor all in one.
  • Jan 1, 1002

    2000 B.C

    Ancient chinese pharmacy had 365 recorded drugs and use words still referenced to this day.
  • Jan 1, 1003

    2900 BC

    "Papyrus Ebers" was a collection of 800 prescriptions,
    mentioning 700 drugs. Two ancient egyption healers directed all the drugs used.
  • Jan 1, 1004

    300 B.C

    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.
  • Jan 1, 1005

    100 B.C

    Mithridates VI, King of Pontus discovered poisoning, but also preventing and counteracting poisoning. His formula, Mithridatum,"
    was popular for over a thousand years
  • Jan 1, 1006

    First century A.D

    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.
  • Feb 17, 1007

    130-200 A.D

    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.
  • Feb 17, 1008

    5th-12th century

    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.
  • Feb 17, 1009

    8th century

    The first public apothecary shops were opened in Bhagdad.
  • Feb 17, 1010

    1240 AD

    Pharmacy was separated from medicine. Pharmacy was strictly giving out the prescribed drug instead of diagnostics also.
  • Feb 17, 1011

    1821

    American pharmacy builds its foundations. 68 pharmacists signed the Constitution of the first pharmaceutical association in the United
    States.