PHA 306 EXAM 1|103 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2025/2026
Babylon in 2000 BC and Chinese herbal medicine guru Shen Nung - CORRECT
ANSWER Pre-US pharmacy practice dates back to...*
True - CORRECT ANSWER T/F: Early practitioners were
pharmacist/physician/priest-all in one*
Ebers Papyrus (1900-1100 BC) - CORRECT ANSWER First well known
pharmaceutical record from Egyptian priests containing about 800 Rxs using 700
drugs*
Theophrastus (300 BC) - CORRECT ANSWER Greek botanist who documented the
medicinal qualities of herbs*
Galen (130-200 AD) - CORRECT ANSWER Roman who developed principles of
preparing and compounding medicinal agents from natural resources*
Pedanius Dioscorides - CORRECT ANSWER Credited with the scientific foundation
of pharmacy "De Materia Medica" consisting of colchicum, opium, & aloes*
Paracelsus - CORRECT ANSWER Father of toxicology- Swiss born physician,
believed chemical treatment of disease rather than botanical*
,Cosmas (physician) and Damian (apothecary) - CORRECT ANSWER Credited for
first DIFFERENTIATION between pharmacists and physicians*
German Emperor Frederick II - CORRECT ANSWER Credited for first LEGAL
separation of pharmacy and medicine, degree called "Magna Carta of the
profession"*
-Profession should be separated from the medical profession
-Should be supervised officially
-Pharmacists should take an oath - CORRECT ANSWER 3 key elements of "Magna
Carta of the profession"
Bagdad - CORRECT ANSWER First official pharmacy (apothecary shop) was started
in _____*
First official pharmacy organization - CORRECT ANSWER A charter granted by King
James I as the "Society of Apothecaries of London"*
First official compendium of drugs (pharmacopoeia) - CORRECT ANSWER
Compiled by the Guild of Apothecaries and the medical society in Florence, Italy*
patent; nostrum (secret cure) makers - CORRECT ANSWER Early practice in the US
was dominated by _____ medicine or _____
-Dispensing physician
-Apothecary shop
, -General shop
-Wholesale druggist - CORRECT ANSWER 4 types of pharmacies during early US
practice
Pinkham; Lydia Pinkham (1876) - CORRECT ANSWER Introduced the _____
Vegetable Compound for female weaknesses - all diseases of the kidneys
Microbe Killer by William Radam - CORRECT ANSWER Discovery of bacteriology by
Pasteur and Koch led to a patent drug called...
Red wine, hydrochloric and sulphuric acid - CORRECT ANSWER Microbe Killer
contents
Upton Sinclair - CORRECT ANSWER Came out with the novel "The Jungle" about
adulteration of meat packaging which led to The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
(first federal regulation of pharmacy)*
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - CORRECT ANSWER First college of pharmacy
William Proctor Jr - CORRECT ANSWER Considered the father of American
Pharmacy
Edward Parrish - CORRECT ANSWER Credited for the transition of the name
"pharmacist" from "apothecary"
ANSWERS 2025/2026
Babylon in 2000 BC and Chinese herbal medicine guru Shen Nung - CORRECT
ANSWER Pre-US pharmacy practice dates back to...*
True - CORRECT ANSWER T/F: Early practitioners were
pharmacist/physician/priest-all in one*
Ebers Papyrus (1900-1100 BC) - CORRECT ANSWER First well known
pharmaceutical record from Egyptian priests containing about 800 Rxs using 700
drugs*
Theophrastus (300 BC) - CORRECT ANSWER Greek botanist who documented the
medicinal qualities of herbs*
Galen (130-200 AD) - CORRECT ANSWER Roman who developed principles of
preparing and compounding medicinal agents from natural resources*
Pedanius Dioscorides - CORRECT ANSWER Credited with the scientific foundation
of pharmacy "De Materia Medica" consisting of colchicum, opium, & aloes*
Paracelsus - CORRECT ANSWER Father of toxicology- Swiss born physician,
believed chemical treatment of disease rather than botanical*
,Cosmas (physician) and Damian (apothecary) - CORRECT ANSWER Credited for
first DIFFERENTIATION between pharmacists and physicians*
German Emperor Frederick II - CORRECT ANSWER Credited for first LEGAL
separation of pharmacy and medicine, degree called "Magna Carta of the
profession"*
-Profession should be separated from the medical profession
-Should be supervised officially
-Pharmacists should take an oath - CORRECT ANSWER 3 key elements of "Magna
Carta of the profession"
Bagdad - CORRECT ANSWER First official pharmacy (apothecary shop) was started
in _____*
First official pharmacy organization - CORRECT ANSWER A charter granted by King
James I as the "Society of Apothecaries of London"*
First official compendium of drugs (pharmacopoeia) - CORRECT ANSWER
Compiled by the Guild of Apothecaries and the medical society in Florence, Italy*
patent; nostrum (secret cure) makers - CORRECT ANSWER Early practice in the US
was dominated by _____ medicine or _____
-Dispensing physician
-Apothecary shop
, -General shop
-Wholesale druggist - CORRECT ANSWER 4 types of pharmacies during early US
practice
Pinkham; Lydia Pinkham (1876) - CORRECT ANSWER Introduced the _____
Vegetable Compound for female weaknesses - all diseases of the kidneys
Microbe Killer by William Radam - CORRECT ANSWER Discovery of bacteriology by
Pasteur and Koch led to a patent drug called...
Red wine, hydrochloric and sulphuric acid - CORRECT ANSWER Microbe Killer
contents
Upton Sinclair - CORRECT ANSWER Came out with the novel "The Jungle" about
adulteration of meat packaging which led to The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
(first federal regulation of pharmacy)*
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - CORRECT ANSWER First college of pharmacy
William Proctor Jr - CORRECT ANSWER Considered the father of American
Pharmacy
Edward Parrish - CORRECT ANSWER Credited for the transition of the name
"pharmacist" from "apothecary"
