This seems incorrect. The idea of pharmacology as a separate discipline and profession comes from the Islamic golden age[1]. Optics lead to the microscope, so t

This seems incorrect. The idea of pharmacology as a separate discipline and profession comes from the Islamic golden age[1]. Optics lead to the microscope, so that’s pretty big. The work in translating and preserving Greek medical works was mostly undertaken during the Islamic golden age. The Ottomans pioneered clean water as a source of health and the regulation of medicine as a profession. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5723183/#:~:text=In%20the%20history%20of%20medicine,the%20strong%20development%20of%20pharmacy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5723183/#:~:tex....