Emblems of pharmacy
A Who is Who
and What is What
for the filmstrip on our title page
As these images show, the pharmacist's profession is part of an ancient tradition.
Emblems
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| Asklepios, Greek god of medicine | Hygieia, daughter of Asklepios. You can see the serpent and her bowl, symbolising medicine. | |
| Asklepios ( = Asclepius, Aesculapius, Aesculap) was the son of the Greek god Apollo. Among his six daughters were Hygieia (cleanliness) and Panacea (All-Healing). Hygieia is often depicted with a bowl (the bowl of Hygieia) and with a serpent (symbol of life and resurrection). | ||
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| The serpent of Asklepios and the bowl of Hygieia | The staff of Mercury (Hermes) merged with the serpent of Asklepios | |
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| Continental Apothecary icon | Pharmacy Cross 04, animation | |
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| Pharmacy Cross 01 | Pharmacy Cross 02 | |
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People
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| Hippocrates 01 | Hippocrates 03 | |
| Hippocrates (ca 460 BC to ca 380 BC) was a Greek physician. He founded the western world's first medical school. He has been called the Father of Medicine. The principle of patient confidentiality, of taking notes so that future generations can learn from the successes and failures of their predecessors, and the priniple that it is a doctor's duty to use his skill to save life rather than to take it (contained in the Hippocratic Oath which all doctors still swear today), are rooted in his teachings. | The Hippocraqtic oath begins with the words: "I swear by Apollo the Physician and by Asclepius and by Hygieia and Panacea and by all the gods..."
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| 01Paracelsus (1493-1541) has been called "the precursor of chemical pharmacology and therapeutics and the most original medical thinker of the sixteenth century." | 02 Samuel Hahnemann, (1755-1843) was a German physician who, beginning with an article he published in a German medical journal in 1796, founded homoeopathic medicine. | |
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Pills
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| Aspirina 01 | Aspirina 02 | |
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| Aspirina 03 : Molecular model of aspirin | Aspirina 04 | |
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| Aspirina 05 : Molecular model of aspirin | Aspirina 06 : Molecular model of aspirin | |
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| Aspirina 07 | Aspirina 08 with vitamin C | |
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| 09 Aspirin advert in India | Aspirin 10 Original Aspirin bottle (Bayer) |
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| Pills 01 | Pills 02 | |
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Plants
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| Chicory | Medicinal herbs | |
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Utensils
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| 01 Ancient pharmaceutical jar, as clean as on the day it was born | 02 Pestle and mortar | |
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| 03 Ancient pharmaceutical jars | 04 Pestle and mortar | |
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| 05 Pestle and mortar | 06 Pharmacy scales | |
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