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West and Central Africa, identify sorcerers
physostigmine to treat glaucoma |
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Amazon arrow poison
Paralysis and death, prevents acetylcholine/muscle contraction |
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Fungus
Symptoms of poisoning: burning of limbs, constriction blood vessels, mental frenzy, hallucinations, convulstions, abortion
Modern: ergotamine treat migraine and ergonovine arrest bleeding after childbirth |
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Ma Huang medium drug for coughs, flue, fevers
Modern: ephedrine for asthma |
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| Purgatives cause bowel movements such as castor oil, figs, senna |
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| Spain, Persia and Mesopotamia |
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Colchicum treat gout
Modern: cholchicine |
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Digitalis purpurea (foxglove)
Used to improve heart muscle
Modern: digoxin to treat disordered rhythms of heart |
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| Treatment Angina pectoris |
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| Suggested use of amyl nitrite to treat angina |
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| Suggested use of nitroglycerin to treat angina, longer duration |
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| Pain in chest due to insufficient oxygen availability to heart muscle |
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From bark of Chinchona tree
Treatment of malaria and arrhythmias |
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| Reserpine and Chlorpromazine |
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Treatment mental patients
Difficult to find correct does of reserpine
Reserpine treat hypertension |
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| Based on ergot, synthesized LSD (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide) |
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| Father of chemotherapy, organoarsenicals, cure syphilis |
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| Introduced sulfa drugs synthetic drugs for treatment of bacterial disease |
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| Penicillin, treatment gram-positive bacteria |
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| Streptomycin, treatment tuberculosis and gram-negative bacteria |
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| Nitrous oxide had the ability to prevent pain |
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| Pointed out that ether had similar properties to nitrous oxide |
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| First operation under ether anaesthesia |
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| Psilocybin, psilocin, mescaline, LSD |
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| Morphine, codeine, heroin, aspirin, acetaminophen |
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| Digoxin, nitroglycerin, amyl nitrite, quinidine, reserpine |
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| Organoarsenicals, sulfa, penicillin, streptomycin |
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| Chlorpromazine, resperine |
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