Work of the American Apothecary

Question 1

Why were laxatives popular medicines?

Answer 1

People could see they worked.

Question 2

What was the number 1 tonic?

Answer 2

Iron.

Question 3

What is the existing laxative still in use?

Answer 3

Senna.

Question 4

What was the most common preparation in early American?

Answer 4

Pills.

Question 5

What are pills?

Answer 5

Hand or machine rolled spheres.

Question 6

What were often made into pills?

Answer 6

Laxatives.

Question 7

What was often used as the inactive ingredient in pills?

Answer 7

Soap.

Question 8

What was china rhubarb used for?

Answer 8

Relieving constipation.

Question 9

What are tinctures?

Answer 9

Alcoholic extractive solution of herbal drugs.

Question 10

What is a decoction?

Answer 10

When an infusion is boiled.

Question 11

What is an infusion?

Answer 11

A tea (not boiled).

Question 12

What were preparations (before 1850s) often used for?

Answer 12

As components of more complex prescriptions.

Question 13

What was paregoric used for?

Answer 13

Diarrhea and insomnia.

Question 14

Where did Rx come from?

Answer 14

Recipe.

Question 15

What changes in medicine after 1800?

Answer 15

It becomes more theory based rather than practical.

Question 16

Who was Benjamin Rush?

Answer 16

1. Founding father. 2. Depletive therapy. “Heroic therapy.”

Question 17

Who created the “Law of Similars” (like cures like)?

Answer 17

Samuel Hahnemann, father of Homeopathy.

Question 18

What did Samuel Hahnemann believe about contemporary preparations?

Answer 18

They were too strong and, thus, should be diluted.

Question 19

Who were the eclectics?

Answer 19

People who rejected all mineral/chemical drugs.

Question 20

Did the Rose Case (1703) make it ok for apothecaries to prescribe medicines?

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 21

Who was John Morgan? (2)

Answer 21

1. Second hospital pharmacist. 2. Proposed first American medical school (1765).

Question 22

Who was van Helmont? (3)

Answer 22

1. Influenced by Paracelcus. 2. Alchemist and Mystic. 3. Proposed magnetic/sympathetic remedies.

Question 23

What was the founding host of the American Pharmacological Association?

Answer 23

Philadelphia college of Medicine.

Question 24

Who was Samuel Thomson?

Answer 24

Founder of Thomsonian medicine. Taught that herbs were the key to recovery.

Question 25

Who was John Uri Lloyd?

Answer 25

American Pharmacist who was the leader of the Eclectic movement.