Opletal L
Katedra farmaceutické botaniky a ekologie Farmaceutické fakulty UK, Hradec Králové.
Ceska Slov Farm. 1994 Nov;43(6):271-4.
Pharmacy is one of very comprehensive and complex fields of human activity; the interrelationships of its individual principal disciplines did not always develop synergically in the course of time. At present, when the field commemorates important anniversaries and develops in the period of new social changes, it is necessary to contemplate the development of the individual fields and their balances in the principal entity for the pharmacist--the medicament. The historiography of the field unambiguously points at the cardinal position of classic pharmacognosy in this process, showing its development, separation of pharmacology, the relationship of pharmacognosy to pharmaceutical chemistry, the differences between the two disciplines and the origin of galenical pharmacy, or the not very fortunate concept of biopharmaceutics. This process takes place in the picture of the dialectical unity of the principal pharmaceutical categories: the drug--the pharmaceutical preparation--the medicament. The development of pharmacobotany as a practical complex discipline originated from pharmacognosy shows in a graphic way the development of the discipline "an sich" into the entity "für sich" and suggests the approach of the pharmacist to the phenomenon of the medicament from the historiographical viewpoint.
药学是人类活动中极为综合和复杂的领域之一；其各个主要学科之间的相互关系在历史进程中并非总是协同发展。当前，在该领域纪念重要周年并在社会新变革时期发展之际，有必要思考各个领域的发展及其在药剂师的主要实体——药物中的平衡。该领域的史学明确指出经典生药学在此过程中的核心地位，展示了其发展、药理学的分离、生药学与药物化学的关系、这两个学科的差异以及盖伦制剂学的起源，或者生物药剂学不太幸运的概念。这个过程发生在主要药学范畴的辩证统一图景中：药物——药物制剂——药剂。作为一门源于生药学的实用综合学科，药用植物学的发展以形象的方式展示了“自在”学科向“自为”实体的发展，并从史学角度暗示了药剂师对药物现象的认知方法。
