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WorksheetsPHARM Unit 1: Hx of Medicine
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The Greek word φάρμακον (phármakon) can mean:
Only drug
Only remedy
Only poison
Both remedy and poison
The earliest medicines primarily came from:
Synthetic chemicals
Natural sources like plants, minerals, and animal parts
Mass-produced pills
Laboratory-engineered compounds
Which ancient text lists over 700 remedies from Egypt?
The Canon of Medicine
Ebers Papyrus
The Hippocratic Corpus
Avesta
Which historical figure stated, “The dose makes the poison”?
Hippocrates
Galen
Paracelsus
Avicenna
Apothecaries first became distinct from physicians during:
Ancient Egypt
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
The 20th century
Ancient people often discovered what medicine helped with symptoms by:
Reading scientific journals
Trial and error, observing effects
Performing chemical analysis
Using X-ray imaging
Which is NOT an example of the earliest forms of medicine?
Powders
Ointments
Tinctures
Capsules
A common problem with early dosing methods was:
Overreliance on laboratory scales
Vague measurements like “a pinch” or “a handful”
Too much use of precise metric units
Using only animal-based medicines
Avicenna’s most famous contribution to medicine was:
Developing warfarin
Discovering penicillin
Writing The Canon of Medicine
Creating the apothecary profession
In the warfarin case, the pharmacist’s action:
Ignored the high dose and filled it
Caught the error and prevented harm
Increased the dose for better effect
Substituted a different drug
In the digoxin case, the pharmacist:
Missed the error and harm occurred
Adjusted the dose to be safe
Caught the mistake in time
Refused to fill the prescription
Hippocrates is best known as:
Father of American Pharmacy
King of Pontus
Father of Medicine
Developer of antibiotics
Mithridates VI is known for:
Writing The Canon of Medicine
Founding pharmacy schools
Experimenting with poisons and antidotes
Discovering aspirin
William Procter, Jr. is recognized as:
Father of Medicine
Father of American Pharmacy
First pharmacist in China
Developer of digoxin
The idea that “medicine and poison are distinguished by dosage” is most closely tied to:
Hippocrates
Galen
Paracelsus
Avicenna
