Pharmacy as a profession and as a health care discipline has gone through phenomenal changes and development during the last few decades, at global as well as regional levels.

2. HISTORY OF
PHARMACY
PROFESSION

3. INTRODUCTION
Pharmacy as a profession and as a health care discipline has
gone through phenomenal changes and development during
the last few decades, at global as well as regional levels.
In the past, Pharmacists were known by names like alchemists,
apothecaries and compounders.
Modern pharmacists are professionally qualified, scientifically
trained and technically competent health care professionals
knowing the secrets and facts of drugs and medicines.

4. DEFINITION
the original
Greek roots
from pharmakos
poison.
 The word pharmacy is derived
from its root word pharma used
since the 15th–17th centuries.

5. HISTORY
Wherever civilisation
arises; we find pharmacy,
because it fulfils one of
man's basic needs.
This effort to grasp from nature for
whatever might shield us from danger
It was earlier a service before it came
to be known as a profession.
. Fossils from plants with
medicinal properties have
been found with the
remains of Neanderthals
Early man used these
plants as drugs
around 50,000 BC

6. EGYPT
 The ancient Egyptians and their writings tell us that they could
supply infusions, decoctions, macerations, inhalations, gargles,
poultices, and in fact practically the same type of preparations the
older pharmacists of today, would still recognise.

7. CHINA
Pharmaceutical
knowledge at
that period was
not confined to
the Egyptians.
The Chinese had
their book called
Pun Tsao or
Great Herbal,
manuscript.
Some of the
remedies
described in this
book are toad's
eyelids for colds,
and earthworms
rolled in honey
for gastritis.

8. Belief in divine powers of the oracles and priests to
treat illness
GREEK
 Socrates, Plato and Aristotle began to escape from the power of the
supernatural, which allowed the development of Western science.
They look for natural causes
and effects in producing
disease
They produced the first
clearly recognisable
descriptions of diseases and
epidemics

9. GERMANY
In 1240, the
German
Emperor
Frederick II
separated the
practice of
medicine and
pharmacy,
giving rise to the
professional
pharmacy.
After almost 200
years of
argument,
came with the
passing of the
Apothecaries
Act of 1815.
Prior to this,
many
apothecaries
practiced
medicine, but
they weren't
charge for their
advice, but only
for the drugs
they supplied.
The outcome of
the new
Apothecaries
Act was a
clearer
definition of the
two streams of
practice
involving,
medicine and
pharmacy.

10.  Very soon the discovery of the Sulphonamide group
of drugs saved many lives in the Second World War,
before Penicillin became freely available.
 Many technological improvements during the 19th
century ranging from the
 stethoscope to X-rays
 identification of many of the bacteria responsible for
infectious diseases,
put clinical observation and treatment on a much
firmer empirical basis.

11. 19TH CENTURY
In 19th century,
pharmacy
began a
transformation
from an ART to
a SCIENCE.
Scientists began
exploring the
structure of drugs,
linking it to the
activity of
compounds, and
they began to
synthesise
compounds with
similar structures.
The mass
production of
drug products
had started in
industry.
New standards
and new
knowledge
meant new
opportunities for
precision in
prescribing
compounding
and dosing;

12. 20TH CENTURY
The 20th century
will be forever
remembered for its
remarkable
advances in
chemistry,
medicine and
pharmacy.
Countless new
drugs were
discovered and
manufacturers
were literally at
war to stay ahead
with new patents.

13. EDUCATION
Later in 1803 six
schools of
pharmacy were
started in France. Private pharmacy
educational institutions
arose in Bavaria, the south
east state in Germany in
1808.
Independent pharmacies were first established in 12th century in
Italy and then countries like France and Germany.
Pharmacy education at College/ University
level started in 1777 in France.
It was in 1821 the first American Pharmacy College - Philadelphia
College of Pharmacy admitted the first batch of pharmacy
students which was followed by Massachusetts College of
Pharmacy (1823) and New York College of Pharmacy (1829).

14. CONCLUSION
 Although the preparation and preservation of drug
products have moved from pharmacy to the
pharmaceutical industry, the pharmacist continues
to fulfill the prescriber's intentions, by not only
dispensing a medication but also by providing a
quality product, providing advice and information,
and monitoring drug therapy
 The face of pharmacy may have changed over the
past 1000 years, but its traditional role remains the
same.