HOSA PHARMACY SCIENCE STUDY GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST 2025-
2026 UPDATE
The Age of Antiquity - Answer-time of ancient human and the great
ancient empires. 5000 BCE (BC) up through CE (AD) 499
Ancient Humans - Answer-Studied birds and animals - to use water,
leaves dirt, mud, etc for first soothing remedies. Learned by trial and
error
Ancient Mesopotamia - Answer-Babylon, cradle of civilization, earliest
known record of apothecary practice
Healers - Answer-Priest, pharmacists, and physicians all in one (around
2600 BCE)
Pen T-Sao - Answer-native herbal recording of 365 drugs, written by
Emperor Shen Nung
Shen Nung - Answer-Father of chinese medicine who tasted herbs to
determine their toxic effects and died of an overdose. Write Pen T-Sao
Echelons - Answer-Gathers and preparers of drugs, similar to the
modern-day pharmacy technician
,Chiefs of Fabrication - Answer-Head pharmacist
Papyrus Ebers - Answer-ancient and important pharmaceutical record in
ancient Egypt, a collection of 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs.
written in 1500 BCE
Charaka Samhita - Answer-recorded approximately 2,000 drugs, is the
most important pharmaceutical record for ancient India, means
compendium of wandering physicians
Terra Sigilata - Answer-first therapeutic agent to bear a trademark
meaning "sealed earth", small clay tablet about the size of a aspirin
Theophrastus - Answer-One of the greatest early Greek philosophers
and natural scientist. Known as the father of botany
Hippocrates - Answer-"Founder of Medicine" Greek scientist that
believed all diseases came from natural causes. Developed the theory of
humors, wrote Corpus Hippocraticum
Corpus Hippocraticum - Answer-written by hippocrates, this text was
among the first to reject the idea that illnesses were mystical or caused
by demonic forces and proposed a more scientific view of medicine
, Humors - Answer-Four body fluids - blood, phlegm, black bile, and
yellow bile - that, according to an ancient theory related to a mood or
personality characteristic
Hippocratic Oath - Answer-An promise made new physicians to treat all
people fairly, and to seek to preserve life. Named after a ancient Greek
physician who is credited with writing it.
Mithridates VI - Answer-Known for developing and using himself and
prisoners to test poisons and antidotes
De Materia Medica - Answer-encyclopedia of remedies from plants or
roots, thought to be the first book to organize meds for what they do.
Written by Pedanios Dioscorides
Galen - Answer-Practiced and taught both pharmacy and medicine in
rome during 130-200 CE
First Apothecaries - Answer-Established by Arabs in the late eighteenth
century separated the arts of the apothecary and physician
Pharmacopoeia - Answer-a book containing a list of drug products used
in medicine, including their descriptions and formulas
First organization of pharmacists - Answer-King James I granted a
separate company known as the Master, wardens, and society of art and
mystery of the apothecaries of the city of london
, Christopher Marshall - Answer-Established an apothecary shop in
Philadelphia the shop became a leading retail store, one of the first large
scale chemical manufactures, a training school for pharmacists and an
important supply depot during the American Revolution
Elizabeth Marshall - Answer-granddaughter of Christopher Marshall;
took over management of the family apothecary store and became the
first american female pharmacist
America's First Hospital - Answer-founded by Benjamin Franklin in
Philadelphia in 1751
Jonathan Roberts - Answer-The first hospital pharmacist in america
John Morgan - Answer-physician who advocated seperation of
pharmacy and physician practices
Andrew Craigie - Answer-A pharmacy pioneer who developed an early
pharmaceutical wholesaling and manufacturing business and was the
first pharmaceutical officer in the american army
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - Answer-Americas first educational
institution for pharmacy
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST 2025-
2026 UPDATE
The Age of Antiquity - Answer-time of ancient human and the great
ancient empires. 5000 BCE (BC) up through CE (AD) 499
Ancient Humans - Answer-Studied birds and animals - to use water,
leaves dirt, mud, etc for first soothing remedies. Learned by trial and
error
Ancient Mesopotamia - Answer-Babylon, cradle of civilization, earliest
known record of apothecary practice
Healers - Answer-Priest, pharmacists, and physicians all in one (around
2600 BCE)
Pen T-Sao - Answer-native herbal recording of 365 drugs, written by
Emperor Shen Nung
Shen Nung - Answer-Father of chinese medicine who tasted herbs to
determine their toxic effects and died of an overdose. Write Pen T-Sao
Echelons - Answer-Gathers and preparers of drugs, similar to the
modern-day pharmacy technician
,Chiefs of Fabrication - Answer-Head pharmacist
Papyrus Ebers - Answer-ancient and important pharmaceutical record in
ancient Egypt, a collection of 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs.
written in 1500 BCE
Charaka Samhita - Answer-recorded approximately 2,000 drugs, is the
most important pharmaceutical record for ancient India, means
compendium of wandering physicians
Terra Sigilata - Answer-first therapeutic agent to bear a trademark
meaning "sealed earth", small clay tablet about the size of a aspirin
Theophrastus - Answer-One of the greatest early Greek philosophers
and natural scientist. Known as the father of botany
Hippocrates - Answer-"Founder of Medicine" Greek scientist that
believed all diseases came from natural causes. Developed the theory of
humors, wrote Corpus Hippocraticum
Corpus Hippocraticum - Answer-written by hippocrates, this text was
among the first to reject the idea that illnesses were mystical or caused
by demonic forces and proposed a more scientific view of medicine
, Humors - Answer-Four body fluids - blood, phlegm, black bile, and
yellow bile - that, according to an ancient theory related to a mood or
personality characteristic
Hippocratic Oath - Answer-An promise made new physicians to treat all
people fairly, and to seek to preserve life. Named after a ancient Greek
physician who is credited with writing it.
Mithridates VI - Answer-Known for developing and using himself and
prisoners to test poisons and antidotes
De Materia Medica - Answer-encyclopedia of remedies from plants or
roots, thought to be the first book to organize meds for what they do.
Written by Pedanios Dioscorides
Galen - Answer-Practiced and taught both pharmacy and medicine in
rome during 130-200 CE
First Apothecaries - Answer-Established by Arabs in the late eighteenth
century separated the arts of the apothecary and physician
Pharmacopoeia - Answer-a book containing a list of drug products used
in medicine, including their descriptions and formulas
First organization of pharmacists - Answer-King James I granted a
separate company known as the Master, wardens, and society of art and
mystery of the apothecaries of the city of london
, Christopher Marshall - Answer-Established an apothecary shop in
Philadelphia the shop became a leading retail store, one of the first large
scale chemical manufactures, a training school for pharmacists and an
important supply depot during the American Revolution
Elizabeth Marshall - Answer-granddaughter of Christopher Marshall;
took over management of the family apothecary store and became the
first american female pharmacist
America's First Hospital - Answer-founded by Benjamin Franklin in
Philadelphia in 1751
Jonathan Roberts - Answer-The first hospital pharmacist in america
John Morgan - Answer-physician who advocated seperation of
pharmacy and physician practices
Andrew Craigie - Answer-A pharmacy pioneer who developed an early
pharmaceutical wholesaling and manufacturing business and was the
first pharmaceutical officer in the american army
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - Answer-Americas first educational
institution for pharmacy
