Module 1 Flashcards
(90 cards)
The largest class of chemicals that are most frequently encountered in poisoning cases and are responsible for environmental contamination and occupational health hazards.
Synthetic compounds
- Aconitum, Monjshood or Wolfsbane
- Flowering plant
- Used indigenous tribes around the worked as arrow poison, and was so deadly that growing it was forbidden in ancient Rome.
Aconite
Molecular mechanisms of toxicity of drugs and pollutants.
Molecular toxicology
Toxicon means
Logos means
Poison
Study
- The state poison of the Greek
- Contains coniine
- For treating muscles spasms, ulcers, and swelling but in large doses causes vomiting to seizures to respiratory failure.
Hemlock
- Study of special effect of toxicant
- Is a very complex and fascinating subject that deal with a wide variety of poisons and toxicants from a variety of sources such as chemicals, pants, fungi, and animals.
Toxicology
Arrow and dart poisons may be blank or blank
plant-based, animal-blased
Examples of ordeal poisons
Hemlock
Physogtigmine (Physostigma venenosum) (Calabar bean)
Amygdalin (Peach pits)
Is a common name for various alkaloid arrow poisons originating from plant extracts.
Curare (D-tubocurare)
Poisons used for?
- Hunting animals (And sometimes fellow human)
- Tribulations
Father of rational Medicine
- Added a number of poisons and clinical toxicology principles pertaining to bioavailability in therapy and overdosage
Hippocrates
They advocate hot oil as an antidote to poisoning and induced vomiting to prevent absorption of the poisons.
The Hippocrates School
Describes medicinal features of cumin and dill.
Materia medica
” I will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgement. I will abstain from harming or wrongdoing any man by it. I will not give a fatal draught to anyone if I am asked, nor will I suggest any such thing.”
Hippocratic Oath
From Ancient Egypt has a prescription for Cannabis sativa applied topically for inflammation.
- Contains information pertaining to many recognized poisons.
- Used in Egyptian medicine
Eber Papyrus
What book did Theophrastus contribute?
- De Historica Plantarum/Historia
- Plantarum/ Enquiry into Plants ( plant poison)
‘Who wrote the Dioscorides De Materia Medica Byzantium?
Pedanius Dioscorides
- The pupil of Aristotle
- Father of Botany
Theophrastus
Recipient of poisons as a state method
Socrates
Speaks of poison arrows
Book of Job
The first law against poisoning in Rome later became a regulatory statue directed at careless dispensers of drugs.
Lex Cornelia
Used poisons to do way with his stepbrother Brittanicus and employed his slaves as food tasters to differentiate edible mushrooms from their more poisonous kin.
Nero
He wrote on the subject of bioavailability, noting milk, butter, and cream could delay intestinal absorption.
- Treatise on Poisons and their Antidotes
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon)
Lex Cornelia was enacted by?
Lucius Cornelius Sulla