Heritage of Pharmacology Flashcards
Ebers papyrus
1550 BC (list of 800 mixtures for therapeutics)
List of 800 Therapeutics made in 1550 BC
Ebers papyrus
Poison Hemlock leads to
paralysis and Respiratory arrest
Who ate hemlock in 350 BC
socrates
Socrates ate what?
poison hemlock 350 BC
Materia Medica
was a listing of ingredients to make drug products wrote by dioscorides 1st AD
What was the listing of ingredients made in 1st AD called and who wrote it
Materia medica and Dioscorides
Galen Believe in what theory
Humoral
Who believe in the humoral theory
Galen
What was the humoral theory
4 humors are in balance when a person is healthy. All diseases and disabilities supposedly resulted from an excess or deficit of one of these four humors.
What inhibited the investigation of better treatments
the humoral treatment -it was the long-standing and elaborately developed dogma that pervaded all thinking on the subject. Like the one on the earth as the center of the universe. Or belief about the creation of the world rather than evolution.
John Jones performed the first…
case study of dose dependent effects
the first case study of dose dependent effects was performed by
john Jone
Sir James lin performed the first
clinical trial which developed a cure for scruvy
who developed the cure for scruvy
Sir James Lin
What’s the Solidist theory
Flow = disease (movement of fluid is relevant to disease states