Intro to Pharmacy Practice Exam 1
questions and answers with solutions
2025
pharmacy - ANSWER the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
Greeks - ANSWER the people that were the roots of modern medicine and medical profession
Babylonians - ANSWER which group of people have magical healers and empirical healers
during early pharmacy?
Pharmakon - ANSWER refers to magic spells, remedy or poison in Homer's Odyssey (800 BC)
Bowl of Hygeia - ANSWER national symbol of pharmacy
Hippocrates - ANSWER who was the first person that believed in the 4 humors and also created
link between environment and humanity?
Blood (spring, air); phlegm (winter, water); yellow bile (summer, fire); black bile (autumn, earth)
- ANSWER what are the 4 humors?
Theophratus (ca 370 BC - 285 BC) - ANSWER who conducted the first study of plants as drugs?
Dioscorides (ca 65 AD) - ANSWER who summarized the drug lore of his time?
Dioscorides (ca 65 AD) - ANSWER who developed the Materia Medica?
, Galen (AD 131 - 201) - ANSWER This is a Roman physician who tried to balance the humors with
contrary elements to treat symptoms?
Emperor Frederick II (1241) - ANSWER Who was the first person to attempt separating
pharmacy practice and medicine during the Middle Ages?
Guilds - ANSWER What is the name of the group of pharmacy practitioners during the Middle
Ages?
Renaissance - ANSWER What is the age of experimentation, skeptical, observations and
methodology?
Printing press - ANSWER What made it possible to print and create uniform formulas?
Paracelsus - ANSWER Who advocated to prepare drugs chemically from crude plant material
and mineral substances?
Bartholomew Browne (1698) - ANSWER Who was the colonial pharmacist that wrote the
earliest known written record of the day-to-day operations of a colonial pharmacist?
Dispensing physicians and their dispensary
Apothecary shop
General store
Wholesale druggist - ANSWER What were the systems of health-care delivery?
It was the first legislation that established rates for products and services; allowed University
trained practitioners to charge 2x as much as those who only had an apprenticeship - ANSWER
What did the Virginia Act of 1736 do?
questions and answers with solutions
2025
pharmacy - ANSWER the art of preparing and dispensing drugs
Greeks - ANSWER the people that were the roots of modern medicine and medical profession
Babylonians - ANSWER which group of people have magical healers and empirical healers
during early pharmacy?
Pharmakon - ANSWER refers to magic spells, remedy or poison in Homer's Odyssey (800 BC)
Bowl of Hygeia - ANSWER national symbol of pharmacy
Hippocrates - ANSWER who was the first person that believed in the 4 humors and also created
link between environment and humanity?
Blood (spring, air); phlegm (winter, water); yellow bile (summer, fire); black bile (autumn, earth)
- ANSWER what are the 4 humors?
Theophratus (ca 370 BC - 285 BC) - ANSWER who conducted the first study of plants as drugs?
Dioscorides (ca 65 AD) - ANSWER who summarized the drug lore of his time?
Dioscorides (ca 65 AD) - ANSWER who developed the Materia Medica?
, Galen (AD 131 - 201) - ANSWER This is a Roman physician who tried to balance the humors with
contrary elements to treat symptoms?
Emperor Frederick II (1241) - ANSWER Who was the first person to attempt separating
pharmacy practice and medicine during the Middle Ages?
Guilds - ANSWER What is the name of the group of pharmacy practitioners during the Middle
Ages?
Renaissance - ANSWER What is the age of experimentation, skeptical, observations and
methodology?
Printing press - ANSWER What made it possible to print and create uniform formulas?
Paracelsus - ANSWER Who advocated to prepare drugs chemically from crude plant material
and mineral substances?
Bartholomew Browne (1698) - ANSWER Who was the colonial pharmacist that wrote the
earliest known written record of the day-to-day operations of a colonial pharmacist?
Dispensing physicians and their dispensary
Apothecary shop
General store
Wholesale druggist - ANSWER What were the systems of health-care delivery?
It was the first legislation that established rates for products and services; allowed University
trained practitioners to charge 2x as much as those who only had an apprenticeship - ANSWER
What did the Virginia Act of 1736 do?
