Prof. Mahadeva Lal Schroff is regarded as India's founder of pharmacy. He attained this distinction as a result of his accomplishments, which included steering India's pharmaceutical sector and educational system in the proper direction.1 The history of pharmacy profession or practice in India starts with opening of chemist shop in 1811 by Scotch M Bathgate opened in Kolkata. This was probably the beginning of pharmacy practice in India. The world's oldest known prescriptions were recorded on a clay tablet in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), ca. 2400 BC. This Sumerian cuneiform document describes methods for making poultices, salves and washes.

1. INTRODUCTION OF PHARMACY &
ITS HISTORY
PRESENTED BY
MISS. PRACHI PANDEY
MR. RAHUL PAL
NIMS INSTITUTE OF PHARMACY, NIMS UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR,
RAJASTHAN, 303121, INDIA

2. PHARMACY
The pharmacy is a clinical health science that connects medical science and chemistry and is
responsible for the discovery, disposal, manufacturing, effective and safe usage, and management of
pharmaceuticals and treatments. Certain pharmacist specialties, such as clinical pharmacy, require
additional abilities, such as understanding the collection and evaluation of physical and laboratory
data.
Branches of Pharmacy can be illustrated as Pharmaceutics (based on formulation of new drugs),
Pharmacology (based on study of drug with animal models), Medicinal Chemistry (based on chemical
synthesis of drugs), Pharmacognosy (based on medical drugs derived from plants), Pharmacy Practice
(based on clinical data), Physical Pharmacy (based on application of physics and chemistry in
pharmacy) and Jurisprudence (based on regulation and guidelines of pharmacy).

3. FATHER OF PHARMACY
Prof. Mahadeva Lal Schroff was born on March 6, 1902, in the city of
Darbhanga in Bihar.
Prof. Mahadeva Lal Schroff is known as the Father of Pharmacy Education
in India because he steered the field of pharmacy in the correct direction
and inspired several generations of pharmacists. He wasn't a qualified
pharmacist, but his contributions to the industry are many, and he fostered
the field to provide opportunities for future pharmacists. Throughout his
life and profession, he faced several barriers and major problems. Prof. Mahadeva Lal
Schroff
(1902- 1971)

4. FATHER OF AMERICAN
PHARMACY
William was born in Baltimore, MD., May 3, 1817 to Issac Procter and Rebecca
Farquhar. graduation from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1837, he
opened a drugstore in 1844. He spent his time conducting new investigations,
developing new preparations and studying the formulas of the pharmacopoeia in
order to improve them. In 1846, he became a professor at the Philadelphia College
of Pharmacy. From 1850 to 1871, William led the American Journal of
Pharmacy. He is also known for writing the first textbook on pharmacy for
American students. He is also responsible for presenting the idea for a national
American pharmaceutical association to the Convention of Pharmaceutics and
Druggists in October 15 -16th, 1851 in New York. As a result of his advocacy and
drive, the association was founded a year later.
William Proctor Jr
(1817 – 1874)

5. FATHER OF MEDICINE
The ancient Greek physician who lived during Greece’s Classical period and
is traditionally regarded as the father of medicine. It is difficult to isolate the
facts of Hippocrates’ life from the later tales told about him or to assess his
medicine accurately in the face of centuries of reverence for him as the ideal
physician. About 60 medical writings have survived that bear his name, most
of which were not written by him. He has been revered for
his ethical standards in medical practice, mainly for the Hippocratic Oath,
which, it is suspected, he did not write.
Hippocrate
(460 BCE - 375 BCE)

6. PRESCRIPTION LOGO
A prescription, often abbreviated ℞ or Rx, is a formal communication
from a physician or other registered healthcare professional to a pharmacist,
authorizing them to dispense a specific prescription drug for a specific
patient. Historically, it was a physician's instruction to an apothecary listing
the materials to be compounded into a treatment—the symbol ℞ (a capital
letter R, crossed to indicate abbreviation) comes from the first word of a
medieval prescription, Latin recipere ('take thou'), that gave the list of the
materials to be compounded. It is generally written at the left upper side of
the prescription by the physicians.

7. BOWL OF HYGIEIA
The Bowl of Hygieia is the most widely recognized international symbol for
the pharmacy profession. The bowl represents a medicinal potion and the
snake represents healing.
The Bowl of Hygieia, is one of the symbols of pharmacology, and along with
the Rod of Asclepius it is one of the most ancient and important symbols
related to medicine in western countries.
The bowl represents the Hygieia (Greek goddess of health, cleanliness and
hygiene) and rod with snake twined represents the Asclepius (Greek god of
medicine).

8. ROD OF ASCLEPIUS
The Rod of Asclepius takes its name from the Greek god Asclepius, a deity associated with healing and
medicinal arts in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius' attributes, the snake and the staff,
sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol. Asclepius is the sun of Apollo and
Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone. Asclepius is the healing aspect of medical arts. He has five daughters
named as
Hygieia ( Goddess of health, hygiene, and cleanliness)
Iaso ( Goddess of healing, recovery, recuperation from illness)
Aceso (Goddess of healing process)
Aegle (Goddess of good health)
Panacea (Goddess of universal remedy)