The word pharmacist.. what does it tell you? well the pharmacist is your druggist or the chemist or the person working in the drug store in your street or the town where you live.
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As of all the professions pharmacists do have a history!!!!!!
Well since the beginning of the civilization people have suffered from multiple ailments from common cold to what not! so yes people did needed a cure a survival plan against the diseases. Since the ancient eras the art and science of medicine has passed millions of nights of evolution to be what it is today.
In the earlier days your doctor or the physician and the pharmacist had been one and the same. they split in recent years. Healers have been reported from all over the world there had been royal healers to the kings.
hint : watch GOT, Merlin or Robin hood you may know what i meant!!!
So these healers were both the pharmacist and the physician.
now to bit of History.. its always good to know the origins and the roots.
The history of pharmacy as an independent science dates back to the first third of the 19th century. Before then, pharmacy evolved from antiquity as part of medicine.
Ebers papyri from Egypt is one of the oldest document reporting the pharmacological findings.
in China the Chinese manual Materia medica reports on various treatments and the herbal medicines.
Interestingly in Japan the men who fulfilled roles similar to those of modern pharmacists were highly respected!! In this highly stable hierarchy, the pharmacists—and even pharmacist assistants—were assigned status superior to all others in health-related fields such as physicians and acupuncturists.
With the years of struggling pharmacy has evolved to what it is today ........
