PPC Flashcards
(107 cards)
which means drugs
PHARMAKON
which means knowledge
GNOSIS
Drugs, origin, structure, and chemical composition.
PHARMACOGNOSY
Medicinal plants and their crude products.
PHARMACOGNOSY
Medicinal values, appearances and its nature.
PHARMACOGNOSY
History, cultivation, collection, identification, selection, evaluation, preparation, distribution, commerce, prescription and use.
PHARMACOGNOSY
Plants and animal kingdom.
PHARMACOGNOSY
Study of drugs of natural origin
PHARMACOGNOSY
The study of physical, chemical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs, drug substances or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as
well as the search for new drugs from natural sources.
PHARMACOGNOSY
A medical student in Halle Saale Germany who named pharmacognosy
C.A SEYDLER (1815)
Oldest Pharmacy Practice
EARLY HISTORY / PHARMACOGNOSY
Represents the history and medicine dating back to prehistoric ages.
EARLY HISTORY
Pre-historic medicine men
EARLY HISTORY
expert in collecting, testing and using
plants for treating diseases.
MEDICINE MEN
Cultivation and gathering of over 200 different plants.
NEW STONE AGE
preparation of food and healing potions
WOMEN
compilation of remedies
MEN
Spirits as cause of disease
NEW STONE AGE
Source of evidence concerning skills of Mesopotamian physicians
LAW CODE OF HAMMURABI
Healing practitioners during Ancient Mesopotamia
PRIEST, PHARMACIST, PHYSICIAN
2600 BC
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
Is best known and most important pharmaceutical record.
PAPYRUS EBERS (1500 BC)
Papyrus Ebers has A collection of _____ prescriptions, mentioning ____ drugs
800, 700
Earliest source of Greek medical knowledge and descriptions of Ancient Greek medical practices
HOMER (ILLAD AND ODYSSEY)