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Pharmacy In Ancient Greece And Rome Flashcards

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Refers to the estemeed medical wisdom or egypt, in odyssey

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Homer

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Father and daughter tandem

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Asklepios and hygeia

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Goddes of health, cleanliness and sanitation

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Hygeia

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4
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The science that deals with the preservation and promotion of health

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Hygiene

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5
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Symbol of Pharmacy

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Bowl of Hygeia

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6
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September 19

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Hippocrates Day

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Hippocrates’ contribution to medicine

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  1. ) because of him, healers became doctors instead of sorcerers
  2. ) father of modern medicine and the greatest physician of his time
  3. ) he moved medicine towards science and away from superstition
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8
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He named cancer……because of the creeping, clutching crab-claw appearance of cancerous tissue

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Carcinos

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What are the four humours according to hippocrates?

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Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

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10
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Too much blood

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Sanguine

Light hearted, fun loving and a people person but can sometimes be arrogant, cocky and indulgent

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Too much yellow bile

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Choleric

A doer. They are ambitious, energetic and passionate. They can dominate other temperaments, but they can be easily angered and bad tempered

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Too much phlegm

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Phlegmatic

Generally, self-content and kind. They can be good administrator and diplomats. They have manu friends, more reliable and compassionate.

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Too much black bile

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Melancholic

They can be highly creative, as in poetry and art, also be preoccupied with tragedy and cruelty. Perfectionists. Often loners and most times choose to stay alone and reflect

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14
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Magic spell, remedy or poison

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Pharmakon

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Hippocrates rational explanation of illness

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A conceptual link between the environment and humanity by connecting the four elements of earth, air, fir and water with the four governing humors of the body, black bile, blood, phlegm and yellow bile

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Method of treatment a disease

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Dietary and lifestyle adjustment over drug use

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17
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Father of Pharmacognasy and Father of Botany

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Theophrastus

18
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Experimenter in drug compounding

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Galen

19
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Tinctures, solutions, syrups, powdersand other medicinals presumably derived from vegetable sourcesand attributedto Galen

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Galenicals

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Galen’s treatment style

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He derives an elaborate system that attemptedto balance the humors of an ill individual by using drugs of a supposedly contrary nature

21
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A room of the greco

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Iatreion

22
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Roman physician for the preparation of remedies

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Greco

23
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Storeroom

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Apathetica

24
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Four remedies

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Hiera picra (holy bitter)
Tierra sigillata (sealed earth)
Thereaca (treacle)
25
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An identification mark of the product of certain specific producer or places

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Trademarking

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Advantages of trademarking (4)

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  1. ) a means of identification
  2. ) a means of gaining customers confidence
  3. ) the commercial advantage of an easily recognized mark
  4. ) a means of rotectong the rights and interests of both the buyer and the seller
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Seals (4)

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  1. ) form of a goat
  2. ) head of the goddess Diana
  3. ) head of the saviour
  4. ) turkish crescent moon
28
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Uses of terra sigillata

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  • antidote for poisons
  • treatment of dysentery
  • internal ulcers
  • hemorrhages
  • gonorrhea
  • pestilential fever
  • complaints of the kidney
  • eye infections
29
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Promoted cleanliness and recommened the washing of wounds with an antiseptic such as vinegar

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Aulus cornelius celsus

30
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Contained information on dieat, pharmacy, surgery and preparation of medical oploids

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De Medicina

31
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A scientist looks at drugs

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Dioscorides

32
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Dioscorides wrote the basis for the modern pharmacopeia

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De Materia Medica

33
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Dioscorides recorded what he observed, promulgated excellent rules for collection of drugs, their storage and use

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Materia Medica

34
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Develop the art of poisoning, and the art of preventing and counteracting poisoning

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Mithridates VI (the royal toxicologist)

35
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The one who specializes in poison and antidotes

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Toxicologist

36
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Immunity to poisons

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Mithridatic

37
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Pharmacy’s patron saints

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Cosmas and damian

38
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Damian the apothecary

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Cosmas the physician

39
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Martyrdom

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Drowned
Burnt
Fastened to a cross and arrows shot at them
Beheaded

40
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September 27

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Feast day

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