People Flashcards
Hippcrates
The father of medicine. He created 400 plant species.
He taught it to a group of people called Pharmacopulox.(root diggers)
Theophrastus
student of Aristotle
father of Botany. First person to write about plants, to describe them.
Aristotle
A teacher in ancient Greece
Dioscorides
the father of pharmacology
military physician
He gathered information on medicinal plants in his travels and wrote “The Materia Medica” considered one of the most extensive writing in medicinal plants. THe book of choice for the next 1500 years.
1. He gave aan accurate plant description down to its roots
2. Drawing of the plant
3. medical prepartation. How to prepare the medicine
4. The good and the bad of the drugs
Para celous
He proclaimed to Europe that God had gave him superior insight into the prevention of diseases
Wrote the book Doctrine of Signatures that said that all plants had been placed on earth by God for a specific reason. People widely accepted it.
He set Medicanal plants back a while
Jean Nicot
A Frenchman that Linneaus named the tobacco plant after.
He made his wealth by importing tobacco and selling it in the European market.
Carl Linneaus
He originated the species binomial (two words)
Sigmund Freud
He recommended morphine to treat psychoactive, depressions, alcoholism, and local anaesthetic. 1914 realised its danger
