Names Flashcards
(125 cards)
“Sealed Earth”
Terra Sigillata
Early trademarked drug
Terra Sigillata
One of the very first therapeutic agents
Terra Sigillata
Use as a cure for poisons and a general cure for any bodily impurities
terra Sigillata
father of Botany
Theophrastus
What did Theophrastus write
De causis plantarum (The causes of plants) and De historia plantarum (the history of plants)
Gave the first clear account of plant sexual reproduction and pollination
Theophrastus
Discussed the influence of abiotic habitat factors
Theophrastus
King of Pontus
Mithridates VI
The royal toxicologist
Mithridates VI
Found the time for the art of poisoning and the art of preventing and counteracting the poisons
Mithridates VI
The father of Pharmacy
Dioscorides
Physician travelling and would collect samples of local medicinal herbs everywhere he went
Pedanius Dioscorides
Promulgated rules for collection of drugs, their storage, and use
Pedanius Dioscorides
Experimenter in Drug Compounding
Galen
Practiced and taught both Pharmacy and medicine in Rome his principles of preparing and compounding medicines
Claudius Galen
Standard medicine preparation practices
Galenicals
Originator of the formula for cold cream
Claudius Galen
Pharmacy Patron Saints
St Damian and St Cosmas
Patron saint of apothecary
St. Damian
Patron saint of physician
St. Cosmas
Twin brothers of Arabian descent and devout Christians, they offered the solace of religion as well as the benefit of their knowledge to the sick who visited them
St. Damian and St. Cosmas
Persian Galen
Avicenna
wrote Arabic often secluded, pharmaceutical teachings were accepted in the west and dominant in the orient
IBN Sina