PHARMA LEC: MOD1 HISTORY Flashcards
(41 cards)
Earliest compilation of drugs, which was written by Emperor Shengnung in about 2,700 B.C.
Pen Tsao
describe penalties for malpractices of practitioner
Code of Hammurabi
oldest record of Egyptian drugs
Kahun papyrus
completion of ds. conditions and prescriptions
Ebers papyrus
assembled the library of clay tablets in Sumeria
Ashurbanipal
greatest teacher of medicine “father of medicine” student: Aristotle
Hippocrates
concept of the healing power of nature
Vis Medicatrix Naturae
formed the scientific basis of medicine
Aristotle
systemically classifies medicinal plants (80% of drugs are from plants)
Theophrastus
established the modern scientific method of naming plants of animals “Father of Taxonomy”
Carolus Linnaeus
compiled 1st Materia medica (old Pharmacology) and it is the subject drugs were from plants (extracted opium / morphine)
Dioscorides
deals with physiology and Materia medica
Galen
compiled a treatise that included prescriptions for farm animals Father of Veterinary Medicine
Publius Vegetius
Classified drugs and poison
Geber Ibn Hjar
compiled the 1st pharmacopeia (the 1st modern book)
Valerius Cordus
discovered the circulation of blood and indicated that drugs were distributed to various parts of the body by this means “Father of Angiology”
William Harvey
1630, make the 1st I.V. injection of drugs into a dog
Christopher Wren
1850, devised the 1st hypodermic needle and syringe
Alexander Wood
introduced the clinical use of opium or laudanum Also called himself Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim
isolated the narcotic substance of opium and called it morphine after Morpheus (Roman God of Dreams)
Friedrich Serturner
Discovered the first vaccine against smallpox
Edward Jenner
established the foundation for modern pharmacology (drug action, D-R. relationship, drug disposition)
Francois Magendie
observed the use of foxglove in the Tx of dropsy
William Withering