Medicine combines the study of diseases with that of remedies. Medicaments can be simples – from the vegetable kingdom as well as from animal and mineral ones – or compounds. In the course of history, medicaments became the exclusive responsibility of pharmacists, also called apothecaries or herbalists. Pharmacy acquired the status of a separate discipline from medicine and it deals with the selection of ingredients, composing them in recipes with adequate preparation and preservation techniques and defining the professional profile of the pharmacist.

> Ingredients

> Pharmaceutical techniques

> Recipes

> Doses and measures

> Theriac

> The profession of the pharmacist