HOSA PHARMACY SCIENCE STUDY GUIDE FOR TEST 2025
UPDATE/PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS (complete solutions) ASSURED
SUCCESS/GRADED A+!!!
In what year was the pharmacy school conformed to have a certain criteria to be
achieved while in school to graduate - CORRECT ANSWER-1932
Pharmacy practice in 1950s was about what? - CORRECT ANSWER-Safety of the
drug product
Very drug centered model
At the _________ pharmacists to see themselves as practitioners of a clinical
profession - CORRECT ANSWER-1985 Hilton Head Conference
Pharmaceutical Care in 1990-1995 - CORRECT ANSWER-professional
relationship must be established and maintained
Present Model
Apothecary - CORRECT ANSWER-Latin term for pharmacist, also used as a
general term to refer to the early practice of pharmacy
,Compounding - CORRECT ANSWER-producing, mixing, or preparing a drug by
combining two or more ingredients
Pharmacy - CORRECT ANSWER-the art and science of preparing and dispensing
medication
The Age of Antiquity - CORRECT ANSWER-time of ancient human and the great
ancient empires. 5000 BCE (BC) up through CE (AD) 499
Ancient Humans - CORRECT ANSWER-Studied birds and animals - to use water,
leaves dirt, mud, etc for first soothing remedies. Learned by trial and error
Ancient Mesopotamia - CORRECT ANSWER-Babylon, cradle of civilization,
earliest known record of apothecary practice
Healers - CORRECT ANSWER-Priest, pharmacists, and physicians all in one
(around 2600 BCE)
Pen T-Sao - CORRECT ANSWER-native herbal recording of 365 drugs, written by
Emperor Shen Nung
Shen Nung - CORRECT ANSWER-Father of chinese medicine who tasted herbs to
determine their toxic effects and died of an overdose. Write Pen T-Sao
,Echelons - CORRECT ANSWER-Gathers and preparers of drugs, similar to the
modern-day pharmacy technician
Pharmacy Practice History - CORRECT ANSWER-...
German Emperor Frederick II - CORRECT ANSWER-First person to separate
medical profession from pharmaceutical
16th century swiss physician Paracelsus - CORRECT ANSWER-Stressed the need
for treatment that would be specific for a particular disease and advocated that
alchemists should prepare medicine and not gold or silver
In the 1600s-1700s, what was the educational process for pharmacists -
CORRECT ANSWER-Apprenticeships
Pass rigid examinations
Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER-Made the small pox vaccines
Paul Ehrich - CORRECT ANSWER-Started chemical treatment of disease
Robert Koch - CORRECT ANSWER-Started the understanding of infectious
diseases
, First United States Pharmacopoeia was in what year? Who wrote it? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Not pharmacists
What was the first pharmacy school to open and when did it open - CORRECT
ANSWER-The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries;
1821
Who was the first to have state regulation of pharmacy? When? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Territory of Orleans (Louisiana);
1808
Chiefs of Fabrication - CORRECT ANSWER-Head pharmacist
Papyrus Ebers - CORRECT ANSWER-ancient and important pharmaceutical
record in ancient Egypt, a collection of 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs.
written in 1500 BCE
Charaka Samhita - CORRECT ANSWER-recorded approximately 2,000 drugs, is
the most important pharmaceutical record for ancient India, means compendium
of wandering physicians
Terra Sigilata - CORRECT ANSWER-first therapeutic agent to bear a trademark
meaning "sealed earth", small clay tablet about the size of a aspirin
UPDATE/PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED
ANSWERS (complete solutions) ASSURED
SUCCESS/GRADED A+!!!
In what year was the pharmacy school conformed to have a certain criteria to be
achieved while in school to graduate - CORRECT ANSWER-1932
Pharmacy practice in 1950s was about what? - CORRECT ANSWER-Safety of the
drug product
Very drug centered model
At the _________ pharmacists to see themselves as practitioners of a clinical
profession - CORRECT ANSWER-1985 Hilton Head Conference
Pharmaceutical Care in 1990-1995 - CORRECT ANSWER-professional
relationship must be established and maintained
Present Model
Apothecary - CORRECT ANSWER-Latin term for pharmacist, also used as a
general term to refer to the early practice of pharmacy
,Compounding - CORRECT ANSWER-producing, mixing, or preparing a drug by
combining two or more ingredients
Pharmacy - CORRECT ANSWER-the art and science of preparing and dispensing
medication
The Age of Antiquity - CORRECT ANSWER-time of ancient human and the great
ancient empires. 5000 BCE (BC) up through CE (AD) 499
Ancient Humans - CORRECT ANSWER-Studied birds and animals - to use water,
leaves dirt, mud, etc for first soothing remedies. Learned by trial and error
Ancient Mesopotamia - CORRECT ANSWER-Babylon, cradle of civilization,
earliest known record of apothecary practice
Healers - CORRECT ANSWER-Priest, pharmacists, and physicians all in one
(around 2600 BCE)
Pen T-Sao - CORRECT ANSWER-native herbal recording of 365 drugs, written by
Emperor Shen Nung
Shen Nung - CORRECT ANSWER-Father of chinese medicine who tasted herbs to
determine their toxic effects and died of an overdose. Write Pen T-Sao
,Echelons - CORRECT ANSWER-Gathers and preparers of drugs, similar to the
modern-day pharmacy technician
Pharmacy Practice History - CORRECT ANSWER-...
German Emperor Frederick II - CORRECT ANSWER-First person to separate
medical profession from pharmaceutical
16th century swiss physician Paracelsus - CORRECT ANSWER-Stressed the need
for treatment that would be specific for a particular disease and advocated that
alchemists should prepare medicine and not gold or silver
In the 1600s-1700s, what was the educational process for pharmacists -
CORRECT ANSWER-Apprenticeships
Pass rigid examinations
Edward Jenner - CORRECT ANSWER-Made the small pox vaccines
Paul Ehrich - CORRECT ANSWER-Started chemical treatment of disease
Robert Koch - CORRECT ANSWER-Started the understanding of infectious
diseases
, First United States Pharmacopoeia was in what year? Who wrote it? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Not pharmacists
What was the first pharmacy school to open and when did it open - CORRECT
ANSWER-The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries;
1821
Who was the first to have state regulation of pharmacy? When? - CORRECT
ANSWER-Territory of Orleans (Louisiana);
1808
Chiefs of Fabrication - CORRECT ANSWER-Head pharmacist
Papyrus Ebers - CORRECT ANSWER-ancient and important pharmaceutical
record in ancient Egypt, a collection of 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs.
written in 1500 BCE
Charaka Samhita - CORRECT ANSWER-recorded approximately 2,000 drugs, is
the most important pharmaceutical record for ancient India, means compendium
of wandering physicians
Terra Sigilata - CORRECT ANSWER-first therapeutic agent to bear a trademark
meaning "sealed earth", small clay tablet about the size of a aspirin
