The History Of Phamaceutical Compounding

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for specific doses
and customized medications. Today, almost 43,000 compounded dosage forms
are dispensed each day. In the 1990's, even with the popularity of
compounding growing again only a few pharmacists can be known as a
compounder or apothecary, because this technique was forgotten by most.

The Evolution of the Word "Pharmacy"

It is from this evolution of a pharmacist being the maker and
compounder of medications that the word pharmacy is defined. The word
pharmacy is defined as "the art of preparing and dispensing drugs or a
place where drugs are sold; a drugstore." The word pharmacy originates from
the Greek word pharmakon or remedy. There has been some arguments
that the word pharmacy came from the Egyptian term ph-ar-maki or the
bestower of security, which the god Thoth, patron of physicians, conferred
as approbation on a ferryman who had managed a safe crossing. However, the
word pharmacy and its many cognates derived, like many of the other
scientific terms, most ...

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moving in a vacuum. Aristotle
believed that the elements formed a continuum of mass and therefore a
vacuum could not exist. Slowly, the atomic idea was lost by the Greeks, but
it was revived in the Renaissance once again.

Today, the modern pharmacist deals with more complex pharmaceutical
remedies than the elixirs, spirits, and powders described in the
Pharmacopoeia of London (1618) and the Pharmacopoeia of Paris (1639). Today,
all major medicines which are considered having the greatest therapeutic
value have to be passed by the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. The
Pharmacopoeia of the United States was first published in 1820 by a
Committee on Revision. This Committee was ...

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