Pharmacy Practice History Complete Exam Study
Guide 2026 – Actual Questions with Verified
Answers & Detailed Explanations
1. German Emperor Frederick II -answer ✅✅✅✅First person to separate medical
profession from pharmaceutical
2. 16th century swiss physician Paracelsus -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
3. In the 1600s-1700s, what was the educational process for pharmacists -answer
✅✅✅✅Apprenticeships
4. Pass rigid examinations
5. Edward Jenner -answer ✅✅✅✅Made the small pox vaccines
6. Paul Ehrich -answer ✅✅✅✅Started chemical treatment of disease
7. Robert Koch -answer ✅✅✅✅Started the understanding of infectious diseases
8. First United States Pharmacopoeia was in what year? Who wrote it? -answer
✅✅✅✅Not pharmacists
,9. What was the first pharmacy school to open and when did it open -answer ✅✅✅✅The
Philadelphia College of Apothecaries;
10. 1821
11. Who was the first to have state regulation of pharmacy? When? -answer
✅✅✅✅Territory of Orleans (Louisiana);
12. 1808
13. In what year was the pharmacy school conformed to have a certain criteria to be
achieved while in school to graduate -answer ✅✅✅✅1932
14. Pharmacy practice in 1950s was about what? -answer ✅✅✅✅Safety of the drug
product
15. Very drug centered model
16. At the _________ pharmacists to see themselves as practitioners of a clinical profession
-answer ✅✅✅✅1985 Hilton Head Conference
17. Pharmaceutical Care in 1990-1995 -answer ✅✅✅✅professional relationship must be
established and maintained
18. Present Model
19. Apothecary -answer ✅✅✅✅Latin term for pharmacist, also used as a general term to
refer to the early practice of pharmacy
20. Compounding -answer ✅✅✅✅producing, mixing, or preparing a drug by combining
two or more ingredients
21. Pharmacy -answer ✅✅✅✅the art and science of preparing and dispensing medication
, 22. The Age of Antiquity -answer ✅✅✅✅time of ancient human and the great ancient
empires. 5000 BCE (BC) up through CE (AD) 499
23. Ancient Humans -answer ✅✅✅✅Studied birds and animals - to use water, leaves dirt,
mud, etc for first soothing remedies. Learned by trial and error
24. Ancient Mesopotamia -answer ✅✅✅✅Babylon, cradle of civilization, earliest known
record of apothecary practice
25. Healers -answer ✅✅✅✅Priest, pharmacists, and physicians all in one (around 2600
BCE)
26. Pen T-Sao -answer ✅✅✅✅native herbal recording of 365 drugs, written by Emperor
Shen Nung
27. Shen Nung -answer ✅✅✅✅Father of chinese medicine who tasted herbs to determine
their toxic effects and died of an overdose. Write Pen T-Sao
28. Echelons -answer ✅✅✅✅Gathers and preparers of drugs, similar to the modern-day
pharmacy technician
29. Chiefs of Fabrication -answer ✅✅✅✅Head pharmacist
30. Papyrus Ebers -answer ✅✅✅✅ancient and important pharmaceutical record in
ancient Egypt, a collection of 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs. written in 1500
BCE
Guide 2026 – Actual Questions with Verified
Answers & Detailed Explanations
1. German Emperor Frederick II -answer ✅✅✅✅First person to separate medical
profession from pharmaceutical
2. 16th century swiss physician Paracelsus -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
3. In the 1600s-1700s, what was the educational process for pharmacists -answer
✅✅✅✅Apprenticeships
4. Pass rigid examinations
5. Edward Jenner -answer ✅✅✅✅Made the small pox vaccines
6. Paul Ehrich -answer ✅✅✅✅Started chemical treatment of disease
7. Robert Koch -answer ✅✅✅✅Started the understanding of infectious diseases
8. First United States Pharmacopoeia was in what year? Who wrote it? -answer
✅✅✅✅Not pharmacists
,9. What was the first pharmacy school to open and when did it open -answer ✅✅✅✅The
Philadelphia College of Apothecaries;
10. 1821
11. Who was the first to have state regulation of pharmacy? When? -answer
✅✅✅✅Territory of Orleans (Louisiana);
12. 1808
13. In what year was the pharmacy school conformed to have a certain criteria to be
achieved while in school to graduate -answer ✅✅✅✅1932
14. Pharmacy practice in 1950s was about what? -answer ✅✅✅✅Safety of the drug
product
15. Very drug centered model
16. At the _________ pharmacists to see themselves as practitioners of a clinical profession
-answer ✅✅✅✅1985 Hilton Head Conference
17. Pharmaceutical Care in 1990-1995 -answer ✅✅✅✅professional relationship must be
established and maintained
18. Present Model
19. Apothecary -answer ✅✅✅✅Latin term for pharmacist, also used as a general term to
refer to the early practice of pharmacy
20. Compounding -answer ✅✅✅✅producing, mixing, or preparing a drug by combining
two or more ingredients
21. Pharmacy -answer ✅✅✅✅the art and science of preparing and dispensing medication
, 22. The Age of Antiquity -answer ✅✅✅✅time of ancient human and the great ancient
empires. 5000 BCE (BC) up through CE (AD) 499
23. Ancient Humans -answer ✅✅✅✅Studied birds and animals - to use water, leaves dirt,
mud, etc for first soothing remedies. Learned by trial and error
24. Ancient Mesopotamia -answer ✅✅✅✅Babylon, cradle of civilization, earliest known
record of apothecary practice
25. Healers -answer ✅✅✅✅Priest, pharmacists, and physicians all in one (around 2600
BCE)
26. Pen T-Sao -answer ✅✅✅✅native herbal recording of 365 drugs, written by Emperor
Shen Nung
27. Shen Nung -answer ✅✅✅✅Father of chinese medicine who tasted herbs to determine
their toxic effects and died of an overdose. Write Pen T-Sao
28. Echelons -answer ✅✅✅✅Gathers and preparers of drugs, similar to the modern-day
pharmacy technician
29. Chiefs of Fabrication -answer ✅✅✅✅Head pharmacist
30. Papyrus Ebers -answer ✅✅✅✅ancient and important pharmaceutical record in
ancient Egypt, a collection of 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs. written in 1500
BCE
