RENAISSANCE AND SO ON Flashcards
- firearms, gunpowder, printing press
- wiped 1/3 of the population
- bacteria of bubonic plague
renaissance: revival of learning
bubonic plague
Yersinia pertis
- father of modern toxicology
- believed in the possibility of specific medicinal agents for specific diseases
- referred to as the Luther of Medicine and sometimes called the Father of Chemical Remedies
- influenced the transformation of pharmacy from a profession based primarily on botanical science to one based on chemical science
Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
paracelsus
- renowned anatomist, “De humani corporis fabrica,” (The Fabric of the Human Body) a groundbreaking work on human anatomy
- his contributions revolutionized the understanding of the human body
- founder of modern human anatomy (did his own dissection)
andrea versalius
- german physician and botanist
- authored “Dispensatorium,” a comprehensive pharmacopoeia that became the first official pharmacopoeia
- standard for medicines
valerius cordus
first official pharmacopoeia
dispensatorium
- started surgery
pare
- establishment of the 1st botanical garden, development of the drug trade and the institution of the academic study of pharmacognosy
- Academic study of pharmacognosy was instituted
italy
- first pharmacopeia of Europe
IL NOVO recittario fiorentino
- branch of knowledge concerned with medicinal drugs obtained from plants or other natural sources
pharmacognosy
- discovery of iodine and bromine,
- introduction of percolation for extraction, study of alkaloids, and the discovery of codeine
france
French chemist
discovered iodine
bernard courtois
Introduced percolation as a means of extraction
Percolation is the process of a liquid slowly passing through a filter.
discovered quinine and the other alkaloids
Real and Boullay
Broadbent and Hammersley
French poet who attacked the high price of drugs in a play entitle, “Le Malade Imaginaire”
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Molier
Discovered alkaloids such as quinine and strychnine, colchicine, emetine, brucine
Pelletier and Caventou
Isolated Codeine from the extract of the Poppy plant, Papaver somniferum
Pierre Jean Robiquet
Father of Microbiology
Developed fermentation, pasteurization, rabies, and anthrax vaccination
Louis Pasteur
Convinced Louis Pasteur to attempt the impossible Administered 12 doses of vaccines for 10 days to the boy who was bitten 14 times by a rabid dog (1885)
Jacques Joseph Grancher
- Government regulation of pharmacy
- development of the German Apothecary Shop
- discovery of morphine
- introduction of the Mohr Balance
GErmany
isolated glucose from raisins
discovered sugar in beets through an alcohol extraction method
Andreas Marggraf
discovered morphine in opium
Friedrich Serturner
introduced Mohr Balance (Wesphal Balance)
Karl Friedrich Mohr
introduced chemotherapy and arsephenamine for the treatment of syphilis
o salvarsan or compound 606
o first modern antibiotic
Paul Ehrlich