Different Fields in Pharmaceutical

Services
1. Community Pharmacy or
Retail Pharmacy
- Member of the health
team that is licensed
to dispense medicines
2. Industrial Pharmacy
- Pharmacists who are
involved in research,
production, quality
control and
distribution of drugs
a. Research
- Pharmacists play a
role in the formation
of the most suitable
dosage forms
b. Production
- Embraces activities
which are involved in
the conversion of raw
materials into finished
products
c. Quality Control
- The raw material,
intermediate and
finished products are
subjected to
quantitative and
qualitative checks for
control purposes
d. Drug Distribution or
Marketing
- Responsible primarily
for personally
contacting potential
prescribers and
pharmacists regarding
their companys
product
3. Hospital Pharmacy
- Works intimately with
physicians, nurses and

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other member of the

health team
- Compounds
prescriptions, provides
stock medication,
performs moderate
degree of scale
manufacturing
Clinical Pharmacy
- Patient-oriented
- Makes round in the
hospital with the
doctor serving as his
information source,
maintains patient
history, monitors drug
therapy and advises
the patient about drug
use, side effects and
drug interaction
Drug Wholesaling
- Providing a
mechanism whereby
the products of
hundred
manufacturers can be
obtained from a single
agency
Pharmacists in Education
- Most important ;
responsible for the
nature and quality of
pharmaceutical
education
Pharmaceutical Journalism
- Pharmacists endowed
in writing and editing
talent
Government Service
- Employment as
officers for the
enforcement of the
laws and regulations
pertaining to
pharmacy and

members of the Board

of Examiners
9. Organization Management
- Offers an opportunity
for pharmacists who
want to be officers of
national and provincial
associations
a. PAPPI- Philippine
Association of
Pharmacist in the
Pharmaceutical
Industry
b. PPA- Philippine
Association of
Pharmacist
c. PACOP- Philippine
Association of Colleges
of Pharmacy
d. PSHP- Philippine
Society of Hospital
Pharmacy
e. CPAP- Community
Pharmacist
Association of the
Philippines
10.
Medical
Communications
- Activities including
computer handling of
medical data, creation
of reference materials,
and research,
evaluate, assemble
and package
information
specifically for the end
user
PHARMACY
-The art of science of
preparing from natural and
synthetic sources, suitable and
convenient materials for

distribution and use in treatment

and prevention of diseases.
Drug
-comes from the Greek word
pharmaken
USP- United States
Pharmacopoeia
NF- National Formulary
EVOLUTION OF PHARMACY
ANTIQUITY
A. ANCIENT BABYLONIA
- Cradle of civilization
- Earliest known record
of apothecary
- Practitioners were
priest, pharmacist and
physician
- Medical texts were
record in clay tablets
B. ANCIENT CHINA
- Shen Nung
- Pen Tsao; recording
365 drugs
- Pa Kua, a
mathematical design
symbolizing creation
and life
C. ANCIENT EGYPT
- Papyrus Ebers the
most important
pharmaceutical record
*collection of 800
prescriptions
mentioning 700
drugs
D. TERRA SIGILLATA
- an early trademarked
drug
- sealed earth
- a clay tablet originating
from the Mediterranean island
of Lemnos
E. THEOPHRASTUS
- Father of botany
F. MITHRIDATES VI
- The royal toxicologist

Mithridatum
antidotal powers

MIDDLE AGES
A. PEDANIOS DIOSCORIDES
- Accompanies the
Roman armies
throughout the known
world
B. GALEN
- Experimenter in drug
compounding
C. DAMIAN AND COSMAS
- Pharmacys Patron
Saints
- Damian apothecary
- Cosmas the physician
D. THE FIRST APOTHECARY
SHOP
- Raised by the Arabs in
Bagdad
E. THE PERSIAN GALEN
- Ibn Sina called
Avicenna by the
Western World
F. SEPARATION OF PHARMACY
AND MEDICINE
- Separated by
Frederick II of
Hohenstaufe
G. THE FIRST OFFICIAL
PHARMACOPOEIA
- Nuovo Receptario,
published and became
legal standard for the
city state
- Savonarola (seated,
foreground)- gave
advice and guidance
to physician and
pharmacists
MODERN EUROPE
PARACELSUS- revolutionized
pharmacy by producing medicinally
active quintessences that lead to
the discovery of drug therapy.
ITALY- cradle of European professional
pharmacy

a. The first professional

European apothecary
shop
b. The first post-antique
antidotary
c. The first pharmacopoeia
d. The first real botanical
garden
RICETTARIO FLORENTINO- first
official pharmacopoeia of the
European World
A. THE SOCIETY OF
APOTHECARIES IN LONDON
- Francis Bacon formed
Master, Wardens and
Society of the Art and
Mystery of the
Apothecaries of the
City of London; the
first org. in the AngloSaxon World
B. APOTHECARY TO NEW
FRANCE (CANADA)
- Louis Hebert built New
Frances first
settlement, the
Habitation
C. FIRST OF THE ALKALOID
CHEMISTS
- Scheele, paved the
way for isolating
organic acids
- Friedrich Wilhelm
Adam Serturner, gave
the world opiums
chief narcotic principle
and prove the
importance of
alkaloids
D. TWO FRENCH PHARMACISTS
- Pierre-Joseph Pelletier
and Joseph-Bienaime
Caventou, isolated
emetine form
Ipecacuanha. Also
isolated strychnine
and brucine from Nux
vomica.
PHARMACY IN THE USA

Parkinson and J. Gerarde- guided

the colonial cultivation and use of
medicinal plants
DRUGGGIST- man who imported
drugs, developed small scale
manufacturing, operated a dispensing
shop and distributed drugs wholesale
to physicians and to the general stores
at country crossroads
A. THE MARSHALL
APOTHECARY
- Christopher Marshall
established an
apothecary shop in
Philadelphia. He
earned the title of
The Fighting Quaker
B. FIRST HOSPITAL PHARMACY
IN COLONIAL AMERICA
- Temporarily set up in
Kinsey House
- Jonathan Roberts; first
hospital pharmacist
but it was his
successor who
practiced hospital
pharmacy, John
Morgan.
C. SCHEELE- GREATEST OF THE
PHARMACIST-CHEMISTS
- Carl William Scheele
discovered
molybdenum,
glycerin, tartaric acid,
chlorine, oxygen,
prussic acid, tungsten
etc.
D. AMERICAS FIRST
APOTHECARY GENERAL
- Andrew Craigie, first
man to hold the rank
of a commissioned
pharmaceutical officer
in an American army
E. AMERICAN PHARMACY
BUILDS ITS FOUNDATIONS
- Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy was built
- 68 pharmacists signed
the constitution of the

pharmaceutical
association in the US

F. THE SHAKERS AND

MEDICINAL HERBS
- United Society of
Believers in Christs
Second Appearing
commonly known as
the Shakers
- Cultivated 200
varieties
G. THE AMERICAN
PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION
- Daniel B. Smith; first
President
- William Procter, Jr.;
first Secretary
- Twenty delegates
launched The
American
Pharmaceutical
Association and
opened membership
to All pharmaceutists
and druggists
H. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN
PHARMACY MEET
- European and
American Pharmacy
Groups met for the
first time, at the
Second International
Congress of Pharmacy
in Paris, France in
1867
I. THE FATHER OF AMERICAN
PHARMACY
- William Procter, Jr.
J. THE PHARMACOPOEIA
COMES OF AGE
- United States
Pharmacopoeia was
the first book of drug
standards from
professional source to

have achieved a
nations acceptance
- Charles Rice chairman
of Committee on
Revision, assisted by
Joseph P. Remington,
and their indefatigable
collaborator Dr.
Edward Squibb
K. PHARMACAL INVENTOR
- Stanislas Limousin
combined scientific
knowledge with
technical skill and
inventive genius. He
introduced the
medicine dropper.
L. THE ERA OF BIOLOGICALS
- Behring and Roux
announced the
effectiveness of
diphtheria antitoxin
- Parke, Davis &
Company was among
the pioneers who put
the new discovery into
production
- Serum became
available in 1895
M. DEVELOPMENT OF
CHEMOTHERAPY
- Ernest Francois
Auguste Fourneau
headed the chemical
laboratories in the
world-renowned
Institute Pasteur, in
Paris.
- Syphilis- from bismuth
and arsenic
compounds
PHARMACY IN THE PHILIPPINES
THREE GROUPS OF NATIVE
WORKING FOR SICK:
A. The mediquillos (diminutive for
medicos)
B. The curanderos (curers)

C. The herbolarios (curers using

herbs)
FACULTATIVOS- the doctors and
pharmacists came to the Philippines to
practice their profession
GOVERNOR FRANCISCO ALCALA
DE LA TORRE- the one who gave
recognition to the Facultativos but
they were allowed only to treat the
natives
BOTIQUINES- for dispensing of
simple medicines but not to compound
prescriptions
FARMACEUTICO DE SEGUNDA
CLASE- license granted by the
government to passers of the
examination
DON LEON MA. GUERRERO- first
Filipino to study pharmacy
- Considered as the
Father of Pharmacy
DON ANACLETO DEL ROSARIO Y
SALES- another pharmacy graduate
stands out most prominently

ESCUELA DE PRACTICANTES DE
MEDICINA Y FARMACIA- was
founded to provide enough pharmacy
graduates for the needs of the people
PRACTITIONER OF PHARMACY- title
given to a person who took three
semester of drugstore practice
SPANISH PHARMACISTS are called
PENINSULARES
HOSPITAL DE SAN JUAN DE DIOS
AND HOSPITAL SE SAN LAZARO
were built by the FRANCISCANS
FATHER FERNANDO STA, MARIA
O.P. wrote MEDICINAS CASERAS
FATHER MANUEL BLANCO O.S.A
wroteFLORA DE FILIPINAS
FATHER BLAS DE LA MADRE DE
DIOS- first to make a written record of
his findings on plants