apothecary
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An apothecary is a person who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. Historically, apothecaries had limited effective treatments, with many substances primarily serving as pain relievers. The term can also refer to the place where these preparations are sold, essentially a pharmacy or drugstore. The word originates from the Latin apotheca, meaning storeroom or repository.12
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…pharmacology derives from the medieval apothecaries, who both prepared and prescribed drugs. In the early 19th century a split developed between apothecaries who treated patients and those whose interest was primarily in the preparation of medicinal compounds; the latter formed the basis of the developing specialty of pharmacology. A truly…
Read More…pharmacology derives from the medieval apothecaries, who both prepared and prescribed drugs. In the early 19th century a split developed between apothecaries who treated patients and those whose interest was primarily in the preparation of medicinal compounds; the latter formed the basis of the developing specialty of pharmacology. A truly…
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pharmaceutical industryPharmaceutical science in the 16th and 17th centuriesThe separation of apothecaries from grocers was authorized by King James I, who also mandated that only a member of the society could keep an apothecary’s shop and make or sell pharmaceutical preparations. In 1841 the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded. This society oversaw the education…
Read MoreThe separation of apothecaries from grocers was authorized by King James I, who also mandated that only a member of the society could keep an apothecary’s shop and make or sell pharmaceutical preparations. In 1841 the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was founded. This society oversaw the education…
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