what is the history of pharmacy?
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From beginnings as remote and simple as these came the proud profession of Pharmacy. Its development parallels that of man. Ancient man learned from instinct, from observation of birds and beasts. Cool water, a leaf, dirt, or mud was his first soothing application. By trial, he learned which served him best. Eventually, he applied his knowledge for the benefit of others. Though the cavemen's methods were crude, many of today's medicines spring from sources as simple and elementary as those which were within reach of early man.\n\nBabylon, jewel of ancient Mesopotamia, often called the cradle of civilization, provides the earliest known record of practice of the art of the apothecary. Practitioners of healing of this era (about 2600 B.C.) were priest, pharmacist and physician, all in one. Medical texts on clay tablets record first the symptoms of illness, the prescription and directions for compounding, then an invocation to the gods. Ancient Babylonian methods find counterpart in today's modern pharmaceutical, medical, and spiritual care of the sick.\n\nChinese Pharmacy, according to legend, stems from Shen Nung (about 2000 B.C.), emperor who sought out and investigated the medicinal value of several hundred herbs. He reputed to have tested many of them on himself, and to have written the first Pen T-Sao, or native herbal, recording 365 drugs. Still worshiped by native Chinese drug guilds as their patron god, Shen Nung conceivably examined many herbs, barks, and roots brought in from the fields, swamps, and woods that are still recognized in Pharmacy today. In the background is the "Pa Kua," a mathematical design symbolizing creation and life. Medicinal plants include podophyllum, rhubarb, ginseng, stramonium, cinnamon bark, and, in the boy's hand, ma huang, or Ephedra.\n\nTheophrastus (about 300 B.C.), among the greatest early Greek philosophers and natural scientists, is called the "father of botany." His observations and writings dealing with the medical qualities and peculiarities of herbs are unusually accurate, even in the light of present knowledge. He lectured to groups of students who walked about with him, learning of nature by observing her treasurers at firsthand. In his hands he holds a branch of belladonna. Behind him are pomegranate blooms, senna, and manuscript scrolls. Slabs of ivory, coated with colored beeswax, served the students as "slates." Writing was cut into the surface with a stylus.\n\nMithridates VI, King of Pontus (about 100 B.C.), though he battled Rome for a lifetime, found time to make not only the art of poisoning, but also the art of preventing and counteracting poisoning, subjects of intensive study. Unhesitatingly, he used himself as well as his prisoners as "guinea pigs" on which to test poisons and antidotes. Behind him are rhizotomists, offering fresh, flowering aconite, ginger, and gentian. At lower right is a crater - a two-piece forerunner of the champagne bucket. His famed formula of alleged panantidotal powers, "Mithridatum," was popular for over a thousand years.\n\nOf the men of ancient times whose names are known and revered among both the professions of Pharmacy and Medicine, Galen, undoubtedly, is the foremost. Galen (130-200 A.D.) practiced and taught both Pharmacy and Medicine in Rome; his principles of preparing and compounding medicines ruled in the Western world for 1,500 years; and his name still is associated with that class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means - galenicals. He was the originator of the formula for a cold cream, essentially similar to that known today. Many procedures Galen originated have their counterparts in today's modern compounding laboratories.\n\nTwinship of the health professions, Pharmacy and Medicine, is nowhere more strikingly portrayed than by Damian, the apothecary, and Cosmas, the physician. Twin brothers of Arabian descent, and devout Christians, they offere
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Check out this website http://www.pharmacychecker.com/\nAlmost 100% of reputed on-line pharmacy are registered with pharmacy checker.
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webmd. or try to google the name of your medication. You can also call your pharmacist and ask questions, they can print you out a copy of all FAQ's and info about your meds.
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www.pharmacy2u.co.uk\n\nor it may be with a .com
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The website below should give you all the pertinent information you need regarding all the aspects of a career in pharmacy in the U.S. For that matter, this website from the U.S. Department of Labor can give you a wealth of information about just about any career you can think of. Good Luck!
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I used to deliver pharmacy medications to a woman named Fanny Rash.\nNo kidding.
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don't you have a dictionary...........my hubby is a pharmaceutical engineer.........he makes legal drugs and said your question could be answered in a book...called encyclopedia....did i spell that right?\n\nget literate..........GOD!!!!   where are you kids going to school???   READ A BOOK .
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what is a detail pharmacy?
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To some extent it really has but for day to day drugs we are still dependent on brick and mortal pharmacy. People generally prefer online pharmacy to buy those drugs only which they hesitate or are embarrassed to buy from brick and mortal ones. The greatest benefit that an online pharmacy offers is that it is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. No salesmen and no cashiers. You are in complete command, just type the prescription and little details about your disease and the drug is at your doorstep.
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Pharmacy is more chemistry oriented. For medical, you will have to take it to know which medications to prescribe, but the majority of your studies will be biology and anatomy.  Try speaking with a counselor at your school, they can help alot =]
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My husband just graduated from pharmacy school in May.  School was pretty hard, he had to study A LOT.  I think in the long run its really worth it though.  The pay is pretty nice once you're finished with it all.  Just remember, being a pharmacist isn't always about working retail (Walgreens).  There are plenty of hospital jobs out there where you deal with patients on a daily basis.  My husband meets one on one with patients daily and loves everything about it.  He would never say that his job is boring.  I do have friends that work retail though and they also really like that.  They do complain though that sometimes they feel like they're not using their education fully.
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call and ask your pharmacist they can tell you ever thing
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4 years of undergraduate college. 4 years of pharmacy school aftewards. The pharmacy school is going to be harder than the undergrad in college. If you have already finished college and are looking to become a pharmacist, then you may need to go back to college and take a few courses first. Most pharmacy schools will require that certain science courses (like chemistry) are taken in college. You will also need to take a standardized test (like how the SATs were) for pharmacy school called the PCAT. whether its hard or not..... almost everyone who gets into pharmacy school, stays in for the 4 years and graduates. Its difficult to 'fail' out, b/c most everyone puts in a lot of time studying and working hard, and therefore naturally will do well. The concepts arent that hard to grasp, its just theres always a lot of information being taught in a short amount of time.  I hope you have a good memory.
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Pharmaceutical companies
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The pharmecutical industry is one of the biggest, fastest growing, most lucrative, and could make strong use of your biology background as well as your sales experience.\n\nSo there you have it: Go be a drug dealer.
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http://www.pharmer.org/node/2102
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Pharmacology is the study of how drugs work like drug interactions within the body and such. A pharmacist will learn pharmacology but also learns how to correctly dispense medicines and such.\n\nPharmacology in a degree is not limited to pharmacy it can be found in the general science degree where you can major in pharmacology\n\nJobs for a pharmacologist includes working for a pharmaceutical company to help develop a drug. Combined with other majors such as public relations can also lead you to be a drug representative for a pharmaceutical company