History of Development of Veterinary Drugs Flashcards
What are the four humors of the body?
blood (sanguine temperament), phlegm (phlegmatic), yellow bile or
urine ( bilious), and black bile (melancholic)
oldest record of Egyptian drug codification written about 2000
BC. which deals with veterinary medicine and uterine disease of
women and contains a number of prescriptions
Kahun Papyrus
Great teacher of Medicine who adapted the notion of a humoral basis for diseases from philosophies in Asia Minor.
Hippocrates
begun the scientific basis of medicine who made and
recorded numerous observation on animals
Aristotle
systematically classified medicinal
plants in the basis of their individual characteristics rather than their
recommended use in treatment
Theophrastus
He compiled the first Materia Medica wherein drugs were discussed from the
standpoint of name, source, identification, tests for adulteration,
preparation of the dosage form, what it would do and what conditions
would be used
Dioscorides
Officially recognized books of drug preparation
Pharmacopeias
his work dealing with physiology and material medica
became authoritative which were used widely for 1400 years
Galen
Developed the practice of pharmacy to a high level and was the first
to distill wines and beers to obtain ethanol for preparing tinctures
Muslim Culture
True or False.
Western Culture were the first to regulate the practice of pharmacy to standardized the preparation prescriptions.
False. It was the Muslim Culture.
classified drugs and poisons and recognized that the
difference between a drug and a poison was a matter of dosage
Geber Ibn Hagar
True or False.
Drugs can never be toxic even given in large amounts.
False.
compiled the first pharmacopeia and described
techniques to be employed in preparation of drugs
Valerius Cordus
introduced the clinical use of laundanum (opium) and
a number of tinctures of various plants.
Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
True or False.
In the 20th Century, coffee, tea, cocoa and variety of alkaloids were discovered.
False. It was in the 17th and 18th Century.