Islamic Medicine - Pharmacy

Pharmacy

The birth of pharmacy as an independent, well-defined profession was established in the early ninth century by Muslim scholars. Al-Biruni states that "pharmacy became independent from medicine as language and syntax are separate from composition, the knowledge of prosody from poetry, and logic from philosophy, for it is an aid rather than a servant". Sabur (d. 869) wrote the first text on pharmacy.

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