apothecary

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In pharmacology
…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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In pharmaceutical industry: Pharmaceutical science in the 16th and 17th centuries
The 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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