HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT OF VETERINARY DRUGS

Question 1

earliest written compilation of drug written by Emperor
Shenung in about 2700 BC.

Answer 1

PEN TSAO

Question 2

Veterinary and human medicine were well developed in _______during antiquity

Answer 2

Asia Minor

Question 3

oldest record of Egyptian drug codification written about 2000 BC. deals with veterinary medicine and uterine disease of women and contains a number of prescriptions.

Answer 3

Kahun Papyrus

Question 4

Greek physician (400-375 BC.) Great teacher of Medicine.
Hippocrates adapted the notion of a humoral basis for diseases

Answer 4

HIPPOCRATES

Question 5

four elements of philosophy were;

Answer 5

water, fire, air and earth.

Question 6

Combinations of these elements gave rise to four humors of the body related to a scale of life from most alive to death.

Answer 6

blood (sanguine temperament),
phlegm (phlegmatic),
yellow bile or urine ( bilious),
black bile (melancholic).

Question 7

Treatment consisted of attempting to balance these humors by:

Answer 7

replenishing of deficiencies or removing excesses.

Question 8

begun the scientific basis of medicine who made
and recorded numerous observation on animals.

Answer 8

Aristotle

Question 8

Officialy recognized books of drug preparation.

Answer 8

Pharmacopeias

Question 8

He systematically classified medicinal
plants in the basis of their individual characteristics rather than their
recommended use in treatment.

Answer 8

Theophrastus

Question 9

(702 - 765) classified drugs and poisons and recognized that the
difference between a drug and a poison was a matter of dosage. Any drug can be toxic if given in large amounts.

Answer 9

Geber Ibn Hagar

Question 9

Developed the practice of pharmacy to a high level and was the first
to distill wines and beers to obtain ethanol for preparing tinctures.
They were also the first to regulate the practice of pharmacy to
standardize the preparation of prespcriptions.

Answer 9

Muslim Culture

Question 10

his work dealing with physiology and material medica
became authoritive which were used widely for 1400 years.

Answer 10

Galen

Question 11

(1514 - 1544) compiled the first pharmacopeia and described
techniques to be employed in preparation of drugs.

Answer 11

Valerius Cordus

Question 12

(1493 - 1541) introduced the clinical use of laundanum (opium) and
a number of tinctures of various plants.

Answer 12

Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

Question 13

Drugs such as crichona (quinine), coffee, tea and cocoa
(methylxanthines), curane, digitalis, and a variety of alkaloids were
discovered.

Answer 13

17 th and 18 th Century

Question 14

(1741 - 1799) gave the most notable contribution to therapy an
account of the Foxglove and some of its medical uses. His
observation on the usage of digitals is the treatment of dropsy
(ascites due to CHF) are steel pertinent.

Answer 14

William Withering

Question 14

(1749 - 1823) discovered and established the principle of
prophylactic immunization against small pox and was the first to
describe anaphylaxis.

Answer 14

Edward Jenner

Question 14

(1578 - 1657) discovered the circulation of blood.

Answer 14

William Harvey

Question 15

(1632 - 1723) made the first intravenous injections of drugs into a
dog.

Answer 15

Christopher Wren

Question 16

(1871 - 1884) devised the first hypodermic needle and syringe.

Answer 16

Alexander Wood

Question 17

The science of pharmacology has flourished in the medical and
pharmacy schools.

Answer 17

20 th Century

Question 18

Was instrumental in shifting emphasis in the veterinary curriculum
form material medica to the Science of Veterinary pharmacology.

Answer 18

L. Meyer Jones

Question 18

Opened the first school of veterinary medicine in Lyons on February
13, 1762.

Answer 18

Claude Bourgelat

Question 19

Produces in 1932 effective against bacterial diseases which led to the significant improvement in animal welfare. This ___________ were followed by the introduction of penicillin.

Answer 19

Sulphonamides

Question 20

in 1960 was discovered for parasite therapy. The first
was thiabendazolel.

Answer 20

Benzimadazoles

Question 21

Products that have been authorized by Agricultural and health ministers.

Answer 21

Veterinary Medicines