Pharmacy practice chapter 1 Questions
and Answers
Early civilizations thought sickness and disease were caused by? - Answer-Demons and evil
spirits
Clay tablets listing hundreds of medicinal preparations were recovered where? - Answer-
Modern day Iraq and Iran
The Father of Modern medicine? -...
Which group became the storehouses of knowledge due the lack of printing presses and
healthcare systems? - Answer✔✔-Arabic Muslim communities.
Who acted as the pharmacist or chemist in the 11th and 12th centuries? - Answer✔✔-
Apothecaries
What is an apothecary? - Answer✔✔-A shop where medicines are gathered, stored, and
compounded by skilled artisans using herbs and other natural ingredients.
What is a guild? - Answer✔✔-A cross between a trade union and a professional organization.
The concept of turning something ordinary into something supernatural or supervaluable?
(Turing iron into silver) - Answer✔✔-Alchemy
Native Americans used what as treatment of illnesses and diseases? - Answer✔✔-Herbal
medicine
The first college of pharmacy? - Answer✔✔-Philadelphia college of Pharmacy and science.
Up until this point, how did most pharmacists receive training? - Answer✔✔-By doctors and
apothecaries.
What group was organized to establish professional practice standards and encouraged the
governments to regulate pharmacy profession by requiring the passing of a formal certification
exam for pharmacists? - Answer✔✔-American Pharmacists Association (APhA)
What is pharmacognosy? - Answer✔✔-The study of medicinal functions of natural products and
chemicals of animal, plant, and mineral origins.
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