药学(来自希腊文Φαρμα(?)ετα药物的使用)乃系探討在医学及兽医学上供治疗、預防之用的药物及制品的寻求、採集、加工、制备、檢定、确定規格、保存及發出等各門学科之总和。与药理学一起,組成关于药物科学——“药学”一詞的广义內容。药学起源于原始时期,人类在自然环境中寻找药物治疗各种疾病的时候。在很長一段时期內,医病和制备药物这兩部分沒有分开成为独立的知識,而是彼此补充共同發展,並且属于同一个專業的。以后,由于药物数量的增多和制药技术的复杂化,出現了这一方面的專家,因而产生了医生和药剂人员职能上的界限。八世紀时,由于在东方国家(巴格达)随后在欧洲出現了药房,所有有关新药的研究、制药原料的处理以及將其作成简单或复杂制剂 Pharmacy (from the Greek Φαρμα (?) Ετα drug use) is to explore the medical treatment and prophylaxis of medical and veterinary drugs and products seeking, collecting, processing, preparation, testing, to determine the specifications, save and issue And other subjects of the sum. Together with pharmacology, make up a broader definition of drug science - the term “pharmacy.” Pharmacy originated in the primitive period, the human environment in the search for drugs to treat various diseases. For a long time, the two parts of medical treatment and preparation of medicines were not separated into independent knowledge, but complement each other and developed together and belong to the same profession. Since then, experts in this field have emerged as a result of the increase in the number of medicines and the sophistication of pharmaceutical technology, thereby creating the functional boundaries between doctors and pharmacy personnel. In the eighteenth century, with the subsequent emergence of pharmacies in the East (Baghdad) in Europe, all research on new drugs, the handling of pharmaceutical raw materials, and their preparation as simple or complex formulations