Pharmaceutical
Pharmacists are health professionals of millennial tradition, successors of apothecaries and apothecaries, experts in the use of drugs and medicines and their consequences to the human or animal organism. In general, they can work in a pharmacy, hospital, industry, clinical analysis laboratories, cosmetics, agriculture, pest prevention, distribution, transportation and drug development, among other functions and places. Experts in the development, production, manipulation, selection and dispensing of medicines, this professional, provides the pharmaceutical assistance work, and can assume technical responsibility of clinical analysis laboratories, distributors, pharmacies, etc. They can also act in the research and quality control of blood components and blood products. In the food area, they are technically responsible for analyzing, interpreting and issuing reports. With specific course is enabled to do acupuncture. In Brazil, they can practice about 71 different activities. In antiquity the pharmacist elaborated medicines from active principles present in nature.