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The history of pharmacy as a modern and independent science dates back to the first third of the 19th century. Before then, pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine . Before the advent of pharmacists, there existed apothecaries that worked alongside priests and physicians in regard to patient care.
The first "drugstores" in North America "appeared in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," [11] with likely proto-drugstores—for example Gysbert van Imbroch ran a "general store" that sold drugs from 1663 to 1665 in Wildwyck, New Netherland, [12] today's Kingston, New York—preceding the dedicated apothecary shops of the 1700s, and providing a model.
In Baghdad the first pharmacies, or drug stores, were established in 754, [11] under the Abbasid Caliphate during the Islamic Golden Age. By the 9th century, these pharmacies were state-regulated. [12] [unreliable source?] The advances made in the Middle East in botany and chemistry led medicine in medieval Islam substantially to develop ...
Around 529 CE St. Benedict of Nursia (480–543 CE), later a Christian saint, the founder of western monasticism and the Order of St. Benedict, today the patron saint of Europe, established the first monastery in Europe (Monte Cassino) on a hilltop between Rome and Naples, that became a model for the Western monasticism and one of the major ...
The UK is the “sick man of Europe” when it comes to spending on medicines and community pharmacies, leaders from the sector have said. ... It said the average UK pharmacy also serves more ...
Ma huang, an herb first mentioned in the book, led to the introduction of the drug ephedrine into modern medicine. [18] According to Sharif Kaf al-Ghazal, [22] and S. Hadzovic, [23] apothecary shops existed during the Middle Ages in Baghdad, [22] operated by pharmacists in 754 during the Abbasid Caliphate, or Islamic Golden Age. [23]
Sabur Ibn Sahl was a physician (d. 869) who wrote the first text on pharmacy in his book Aqrabadhin al-Kabir. Heavily influenced by Dioscorides, it is believed that his book was written after Dioscorides' Materia Medica. The acclaimed Greek herbalist Dioscorides worked alongside Greek physician Galen to categorize pharmacological agents.
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