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1. The term "pharmacognosy" was first coined in 1811 by Johann Adam Schmidt to describe knowledge of medicines derived from natural sources. 2. In 1815, Christianus Aenotheus Seydler formally established pharmacognosy as a scientific discipline focused on developing medicines from natural products. 3. Historically, pharmacognosy involved identifying and describing medicinal plants through physical characteristics, as it predated modern analytical chemistry and was closely linked to botany. Dioscorides w

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