Toxicology Flashcards
Contributed poison and clinical toxicology principles about BIOAVAILABILITY and OVERDOSAGE
HIPPOCRATES
Father of botany
THEOPHRASTUS
List poisonous plants in De Historia Plantarum
THEOPHRASTUS
Father of empirical(experience) toxicology
KING MITHRIDATES VI EUPATOR
Regularly ingested a mixture of 36 ingredients with sublethal dose
KING MITHRIDATES VI EUPATOR
Issued Lex Cornelia
(First anti-poisoing law)
LUCIUS CORNELIUS SULLA
Classify poisonous plants, animals and minerals in his book DE MATERIA MEDICA
DIOSCORIDES
Wrote TREATISE ON POISON AND THEIR ANTIDOTES
MAIMONIDES
Noted that MILK BUTTER AND CREAM can slow down intestinal absorption
MAIMONIDES
Complete name of MAIMONIDES
A. MOISES BEN MAIMON
B. MOISES BEN MAIMONIDES
C. MOISES BEN MAIMONIDE
A. MOISES BEN MAIMON
Written by Egyptian, contains information pertaining to many recognized poisons.
EBERS PAPYRUS
Discovered by GEORGE EBERS
EBERS PAPYRUS
Queen of all poison
ACONITE
State poison of the Greeks, used to execute Hippocrates
HEMLOCK
State of IMMORTALITY
OPIUM
Father of Toxicology
PARACELSUS
Introduced the dose - response concept in toxicology
PARACELSUS
States that “ the dose makes the poison”
PARACELSUS