Module 2 Flashcards
healing based on experience
empirical healing
two classes of practitioners of the babylonians
ASIPU (magical healer)
ASU (empirical healer)
relied more heavily on spells and used of magical stones
ASIPU (magical healer)
has a large collection of drugs and that can prepared into several dosage forms
ASU (empirical healer)
close connection between supernatural and empirical healing
egyptians
best known and most important phamaceutical record
ebers papyrus
it is a collection iof 800 prescriptions mentioning 700 drugs
ebers papyrus
means magic spell, remedy or poison
pharmakon or drug
they are Greek physicians
Demiourgori
uses supernatural healing in conjunction with empiriacal remedies
demiourgori
fatehr of modern medicine
Hippocrates
responsible for the rational explanation of illness
Hippocrates
greek physician who followed hippocratic method favored dietary and lifestyle adjustments over drug use.
Iatros
he is the father of botany
Theophrastus
he wrote the Materia Medica
Pedanios Dioscorides
it is the standard encyclopedia of drugs for hundreds of years
Materia Medica
advocated the use of polypharmaceutical preparations or “shotgun preparations”
Cladius Galen
his name is associated with that class of pharmaceuticals compounded by mechanical means–Galencials
Cladius Galen
period where they believed that diseases are caused by sins
middle ages
became centers for healing, both spiritual and corporal
monasterias
patron saint of the apothecaries
Damian
patron saint of the Physicians
cosmas
he was the living link between Oriental and Occidental worlds
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen
the latin term of Apothecaries
Apotheca