A Career in Pharmacy
A Career in Pharmacy
Thomas Peterson
English 12 Schaff
12 March 2014
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Thomas Peterson
English 12 Schaff
12 March 2014
A Career in Pharmacy Pharmacy careers have always been some of the most favorable and rewarding in the medical industry. Different kinds of pharmacists have been around for hundreds of years, as there always has been and will be a need for medicine in our society. Becoming a Doctor of
Pharmacy is very demanding schooling wise. Completing the schooling requirement can sometimes take up to eight years. The profession offers many different fields of work and all of them are equally rewarding. The practice of pharmacy started with the first humans to walk the Earth. When the first person extracted juice from a plant to apply to a wound, the art of pharmacy was already being practiced ("History"). In Greek legend, Asclepius, the god of the healing art, granted
Hygieia the duty of compounding his remedies ("History"). She was his apothecary or what is now called a pharmacist. The physician-priests of Egypt were divided into two classes: those who visited the sick and those who remained in the temple and prepared remedies for the patients ("History").
In ancient Greece and Rome and also during the Middle Ages in Europe, the practice of pharmacy recognized a separation between the duties of the physician and those of the herbalist, which supplied the physician with the raw materials from which to formulate
Peterson 2 medicines ("History"). The Arabian influence in Europe during the eighth century A.D. brought about the practice of separate duties for the pharmacists and physicians ("History").
Specialization was later reinforced by a law enacted by the city council of Bruges in 1683, which forbid physicians to prepare medications for their patients ("History of"). In America, Benjamin
Franklin had a large part in keeping the two professions separate
Thomas Peterson
English 12 Schaff
12 March 2014
Peterson 1
Thomas Peterson
English 12 Schaff
12 March 2014
A Career in Pharmacy Pharmacy careers have always been some of the most favorable and rewarding in the medical industry. Different kinds of pharmacists have been around for hundreds of years, as there always has been and will be a need for medicine in our society. Becoming a Doctor of
Pharmacy is very demanding schooling wise. Completing the schooling requirement can sometimes take up to eight years. The profession offers many different fields of work and all of them are equally rewarding. The practice of pharmacy started with the first humans to walk the Earth. When the first person extracted juice from a plant to apply to a wound, the art of pharmacy was already being practiced ("History"). In Greek legend, Asclepius, the god of the healing art, granted
Hygieia the duty of compounding his remedies ("History"). She was his apothecary or what is now called a pharmacist. The physician-priests of Egypt were divided into two classes: those who visited the sick and those who remained in the temple and prepared remedies for the patients ("History").
In ancient Greece and Rome and also during the Middle Ages in Europe, the practice of pharmacy recognized a separation between the duties of the physician and those of the herbalist, which supplied the physician with the raw materials from which to formulate
Peterson 2 medicines ("History"). The Arabian influence in Europe during the eighth century A.D. brought about the practice of separate duties for the pharmacists and physicians ("History").
Specialization was later reinforced by a law enacted by the city council of Bruges in 1683, which forbid physicians to prepare medications for their patients ("History of"). In America, Benjamin
Franklin had a large part in keeping the two professions separate
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