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Father of Pharmacology

Pedanius Dioscorides

observed, promulgated excellent rules for collection of drugs, their storage, and use.

Contained Information on more than 600 plants and 90 minerals

De material Medica

"Dioscorides Herbal"

Father of Medicine

Hippocrates

Named Diabetes Mellitus


Discovered Effective Therapies for them


Invented Medical Devices


First to establish Diagnostic Methods

Father of Botany

Theophrastus

Enquiry into Plants


On the Cause of Plants


Patron Saints of Medicine and Pharmacy

Cosmas and Damian

One was a Physician and his twin brother practiced Pharmacy.

Father of Chinese Pharmaceuticals

Shen Nung

Propagated Chinese Pharmaceuticals


Recorded and Published The Great Herbal

Father of Toxicology

Paracelsus

Described a number of serious illnesses, including tubercolosis


Believed that there was a cure for every disease


Believed in Chemical Treatment rather than Botanical.


"The Persian Galen"

Avicenna


(Ibn Sina)

Most Significant Philosopher in Islamic Tradition and arguably the most influential philosopher of the pre-modern era

Handbook for the Apothecary Shop


The Minhaj

"Pharmacists ought to have deep religious convictions, considerations for others, especially the poor and needy, a sense of responsibility and be careful and God-Fearing"

Galen of Pergamon

Claudius Galen


"Blood Flowed through Arteries"


"Cold Cream"


"Experimenter of Drug Compounding"

Class of Pharmaceutical compounded by Mechanical means.

Galenicals

examples are syrups and ointments

Father of Ancient Medicine in India

Charaka

Renowned Author of the Oldest Surviving Text in Ayurveda

Patron Saint for Mental Disorder

St. Dymphna

The Great Herbalist

Celsus

ACC, Roman Encyclopaedist, known for De Medicina, One of the Greatest Roman Medical Writers

Believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia

De Medicina

by Celsus

German Egyptologist

George Ebers

Found the Parchment Scroll that preserved the knowledge of Early Egyptian Medicine

Collection of 800 prescriptions that specifically mentions 700 unique drugs

Papyrus Ebers

Scroll that preserved the knowledge of early egyptian Medicine.

Ebers Papyrus

Swedish German Pharmaceutical Chemist

Carl Scheele

Paved the way for isolating organic plant acids in 1742


Discovered Arsenic, Chlorine, and Glycerine

German Emperor

Emperor Frederick II of Germany

author of Magna Carta of Pharmacy

Dispensatorium Pharmacopolarum

The First Legal Pharmacopeia

from the city of nuremburg germany

German Pharmacist, Prepared Salts of Morphine, Isolated from Opium in 1803

Friedrich Saturner

Transformed Pharm Chem into a acknowledged branch of science

French Chemist


Isolated Codeine from Opium

Pierre - Jean Robiquet

Identified existence of Amino Acid Asparagune and Alizarun Dye

German Pharmacologist


Discovered Salicin in Willow Bark and Nicotine in Tobacco


Johann Buchner

German Pharmacists


Both isolated hyoscyamine


Both Discovered Atropine

Rudolph Brandes


Philip Geiger

German Physiologist


Initiated Serum Therapy


Discovered anti-toxins neutralize microbial toxins

Emil von Behring

Father of Chemotherapy


Discovered Arsphenamine (Magic Bullet Against Syphilis)

Paul Erlich

German Pathologist


Discovered a sulfa drug Protonsil to be effective against hemolytic streptococci


Discovered sulfonamides and synthetic antobiotics

Gerhard Domagk

Chinese Document freely trabsleted as "The Botanical Basis of Pharmacy"

Pen T'sao

First Pharmaceutical texts contained more than 500 remedies from plant, mineral, and other sources.

Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia

Contains a section on ethical standards for health practitioners

The Code of Hammurabi

German Physician


Discovered Serum Therapy


Discovered the Anthrax Disease Cycle and the Bacteria Responsible for TB and Cholera

Robert Koch

English Physician


Clinican and Botanist who investigated the active ingredient in a folk remedy used to cure dropsy.

William Withering

A form of Digitalis, in the foxglove plant, used widely today as a cardiotonic drug.

Digoxin

Father of Immunology


Vaccinated against smallpox with the cowpox vaccine


English Doctor


Pioneer of Smallpox

Edward Jenner

Scottish Physician


Scottish Bacteriologist who discovered penicilin

Alexander Fleming

Australian Pharmacologist


Co-Discoverer of Penicilin


First Used Penicilin for therapy in Humans in 1940

Howard Florey

French Chemist


Discovered Iodine in Marine Algae


Crediting with First Isolating Iodine and Morphine

Bernard Courtois

French Chemist


Discovered Bromine in Seawater

Antoine Balard

Discovered Quinine and Caffeine

Joseph Caventaou


ALSO discovered Quinine

Pierre Pelletier

Both Discovered Quinine


French Pharmacist / Chemist

Joseph Caventaou and Pierre Pelletier

French Chemist


Obtained Free Fluorine


Completed the Elements in the Halogen Family


Fluorine Chemistry

Henri Moissan