PHARMA LEC

Cards (121)

  • Logy
    Greek word to study or science
  • Pharmacology
    Study of science dealing with drugs
  • First people that record how to use drugs are Chinese people called oriental medicine
  • Pen Tsao
    Earliest compilation of drugs, which was written by Emperor Shengnung of china in about 2,700 B.C.
  • Code of Hammurabi
    Describe penalties for malpractices of practitioner
  • Kahun papyrus
    Oldest record of Egyptian drugs
  • Ebers papyrus
    Compilation of diseases conditions and prescriptions
  • Hippocrates
    Greatest teacher of medicine, "father of medicine"
  • Oaths
    • Human medicine oath – Hippocratic oath
    • Vetveterinarians oath
  • Vis medicatrix nature
    Concept of the healing power of nature, Hippocrates theory
  • Aristotle
    Formed the scientific basis of medicine
  • Theophrastus
    Systemically classifies medicinal plants
  • Carolus Linnaeus
    Established the modern scientific method of naming plants and animals, father of taxonomy
  • Dioscorides
    Compiled 1st. Materia medica
  • Materia medica
    Old study of pharmacology. Extract medicine from plant then use in diseases
  • Galen
    Deals with physiology and materia medica
  • Publius Vegetius
    Compiled a treatise that included prescriptions for farm animals, father of veterinary medicine
  • Geber Ibn Hjar
    Classified drugs and poison
  • Valerius Cordus
    Compiled the 1st pharmacopeia (book with drug compilation)
  • William Harvey
    Discovered the circulation of blood and indicated that drug were distributed to various parts of the body by this means
  • Christopher Wren
    1630, make the 1st I.V. injection of drugs into a dog
  • Alexander Wood
    1850, devised the 1st hypodermic needle and syringe
  • Theoprastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim
    Introduced the clinical use of opium or laudanum (from a poppy plant), Also called himself Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
  • Fredrich Serturner
    Isolated the narcotic substance of opium and called it morphine after Morpheus
  • Edward Jenner
    Discovered the vaccine against small pox
  • Francois Magendie
    Established the foundation for modern pharmacology (drug action, D-R. relationship, drug disposition)
  • William Withering
    Observed the use of foxglove (plant) in the Tx of drops
  • Rudolph Buchheim
    Established the 1st independent laboratory devoted exclusively to the study of pharmacology, "father of Pharmacology"
  • John Abel
    "Father of Pharmacology in U.S"
  • Paul Ehrlich
    1910, reported the synthesis of arsphenamine which in an anti-syphilitic drug, anti-trypanosomal drug – for typanosoma evansi, 1st antibacterial drug possessing specificity for invading pathogens, "Father of chemotherapy"
  • Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that cause difficulty in urination with pus
  • Alexander Fleming
    1928, isolated penicillin (1st antibiotic)
  • Gerhard Domagk
    1935, isolated sulfanilamide (2nd antibiotic)
  • Doisy and Butenandt
    Isolated estrone from female urine
  • Butenandt
    Isolated aldosterone from male urine
  • Slotta
    Discovered the steroid structure of progesterone
  • Kendall
    Isolated thyroxine
  • Harrington
    Established the chemical structure of thyroxine
  • Banting & Best
    1922, isolated and purify insulin
  • John Abel
    Isolated adrenalin