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Chapter 1
Evolution of Medical Drugs
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Pharmacology
Undergraduate 1
06/24/2012

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Pharmacolgy today is based on solid science and systematic research rather than conventional wisdom and trial and error

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True
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Under current law, the manufacturers of all new drugs musts provide proof that the drugs are ___ & ___ before they will be approved for marketing.
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effective and safe
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The concept of "drug" appears in early Greek records as the work _____, which also meant magic, spell, remedy, or poison.
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pharmakon
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The Greek physician ____ (c. 460-377 B.C.) was the first to propose that disease was caused by natural rather than supernatural causes.

 

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Hippocrates
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Hippocrates was also the first to dissect the human body to study the function of ___ ___
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specific organs
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____ scientifically described and classified 600 plants by substance rather than by the disease they were intended to treat.
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Dioscorides
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____ wrote and copied medical texts and grew herb gardens of medicinal plants.
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Monks
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The Swiss surgeon ____ (1493-1541) denounced the philosophy of humors in medicine and advocated the use of individual drugs rather than mixtures of potions.
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Paracelsus
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____ reasoned that treating diseases with individual drugs would make it easier to determine which agent helped, which made the patient worse, and how much of a drug was needed.
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Paracelsus
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Near the end of the ___ ___, the earliest official listing of medical preparations appeard in print.
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Middle Ages
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The first print of the official listings of medical preparations was the ___ ___ which was compiled by doctors in Florence, Italy, and was published in 1498.
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Nuovo Receptario
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In 1546, ___ ___ published the Dispensatoriium in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Valerius Cordis
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The dispensatorium is an official listing is soften referred to as a ____.
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pharmacopoeia
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During the ___ and ___ centuries, several advances in pharmacy and chemistry occured.
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seventeenth and eighteenth
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Some drugs mixtures introduced during 17th and 18th centuries

1.

2.

3.

Still used today

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1.  Opium

2. Cocoa

3. ipecac

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In the nineteenth century, the French physiologist ___ ___ (1813-1878) advanced the knowledge of how drugs work on the body when he demonstrated that cetain drugs have specific sites of action within the body.
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Claude Bernard
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Because of Claude Barnard's use of laboratory methods to study drugs, he is credited with founding the field of experimental ___, which is the science of drugs and their interactions with the systems of living animals.
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pharmacology
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An ___ was the forerunner of today's pharmacists in England.
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apothecary
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In 1820, the first official listing of drugs in the US, the ___ of the __ __, known today as the __ __ (___) was published by the massachusetts Medical Society, which approval from a national convention of physicians.
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Pharmacopoeia of the United States

U.S. Pharmacopia (USP)

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Practitioners who treated patients supported the frowth of the pharmaceutical profession because it relased them from the responsibility of ___ ___ and ___ a ___.
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compounding medicines

stocking a shop

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