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    The document provides an overview of the history and evolution of pharmacy. It discusses ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia where shamans and priests acted as early medical practitioners and believed diseases were caused by sins requiring spiritual purification. Symbols of pharmacy like the bowl of Hygeia and caduceus are derived from Greek and Roman gods of health. The mortar and pestle was widely used as the symbol for pharmacies. The document traces the roots of modern pharmacy back to prehistoric times when early humans buried their dead with medicinal plants, showing pharmacy has been part of daily life since the dawn of humanity.

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    The document provides an overview of the history and evolution of pharmacy. It discusses ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia where shamans and priests acted as early medical practitioners and believed diseases were caused by sins requiring spiritual purification. Symbols of pharmacy like the bowl of Hygeia and caduceus are derived from Greek and Roman gods of health. The mortar and pestle was widely used as the symbol for pharmacies. The document traces the roots of modern pharmacy back to prehistoric times when early humans buried their dead with medicinal plants, showing pharmacy has been part of daily life since the dawn of humanity.

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    The document provides an overview of the history and evolution of pharmacy. It discusses ancient civilizations like Mesopotamia where shamans and priests acted as early medical practitioners and believed diseases were caused by sins requiring spiritual purification. Symbols of pharmacy like the bowl of Hygeia and caduceus are derived from Greek and Roman gods of health. The mortar and pestle was widely used as the symbol for pharmacies. The document traces the roots of modern pharmacy back to prehistoric times when early humans buried their dead with medicinal plants, showing pharmacy has been part of daily life since the dawn of humanity.

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    Perspective in pharmacy pharmacy, hence their use as an easily

    recognizable visual motif.


    Pharmacy
    Rx Symbol
    – derived from Greek word “Pharmakon”.
    –The recipe sign sign appears at the start of
    – art of dispensing and preparing of
    prescriptions. Although University accepted
    medicines or drugs.
    as an abbreviation of “recipe” (Latin for
    – establishment and piece where drugs or
    “take thou”. It has also been suggested that
    medicines are solved.
    it is the astronomical sign of the planet
    Jupiter.
    Pharmacist
    –They are also known as druggists
    EVOLUTION OF PHARMACY
    –They are healthcare professionals who
    practice in pharmacy, the field of health
    Prehistoric Pharmacy
    sciences focusing on safe and effective
    –Since the dawn of humanity, pharmacy has
    medication use.
    been part of everyday life.

    SYMBOL OF PHARMACY
    Shanidar Cave Burial
    Bowl of Hygeia
    –50,000 years ago, Neanderthal man was
    –The bowl with a snake coiled around it is
    buried in the shanidar caves in northern
    called the bowl of Hygeia with the serpent
    Iraq with clusters of flowers and herbs.
    of Epidaurus.
    – Hygeia was Aesculapius’s daughter and a
    Shamans
    Greek Goddess of health.
    –Faith Healers
    –Her symbol was a serpent drinking from a
    –Because both disease and its treatment
    bowl.
    involves this world of spirits, they need a
    specialist who understood and could control
    Caduceus
    the spirits;
    – The symbol of two snakes on a staff is
    Oral rite
    called the Caduceus.
    Manual rite
    – The staff, depicted with wings, is that of
    Mercury (Roman) or Hermes
    Pharmacy in ancient civilizations
    (Greek),messenger of the Gods and also
    Pharmacy in antiquity
    God of commerce.
    * This debt to precedent cultures was
    particularly evident in pharmacy and
    Mortar & Pestle
    medicine. This is because the animistic-
    – it has long been used as a pharmaceutical
    religious-magical notions of disease and its
    symbol in Britain and on the European
    treatment did not disappear.
    mainland, and is still widely employed as
    the pharmacy shop sign in Scotland. The
    Mortar and Pestle are tools of traditional
    MESOPOTAMIA
    * They believe that one could avoid disease
    by leading a righteous life and worshipping
    the proper God.
    * Mesopotamians made offerings to the
    ghost of their ancestors, respected taboos,
    and even acquire magical accessories to
    keep away evil.

    3 Deities/Gods
    1. Ninazu – Lord physician
    2. Ningishrida – son of ninazu
    –carries the staff with snake around it
    3. Gula – Goddess of Death and Healing
    – Patroness of the physician
    – Great lady of physicians

    3 Main Medical Practitioners:


    1. Asu – physician priest
    2. Ashipu – exorcist and incantation priest
    3. Baru –the seer priest

    They believe that disease is a consequence


    of a SIN. Cures therefore should involved
    spiritual religious purification and cathatsis.

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