Test Four Flashcards
What are some things about good witches
Mid wives
Knew local plants
Everyone went to them
What are some things about the bad witches
Used drugs on themselves
Poisoned people
What is a night flight
Put medicine on broom insert them insed themselves
Chemicals make them feel like their flying but they just fell asleep
When did the medicinal plants come about
Middle Ages
Usually oral traditions
What is doctrine of signature
Rule of signature appearance found throughout history of world common everywhere
Why did people think there were medicinal plants
God made everything
Give people clues
Look at the anatomy of plants and see gods clue
Used this way till 1500
What is the purple fox glove
Gave people a cheap high
Why were people given purple fox glove
Swelling
Congestive heart failure
Poked skin but it didn’t come back out
Who found the purple fox glove
William withering
What were some things about William
Went to medical school school and hated botany
Liked Helen and she liked botany
Writes paper in 1776
Becomes doc
Who was the local witch
Mrs Hutton and she had the recipient to cure dropsy
What is digitalas
The chemical in fox glow plant
What did van gough have that he needed digitalis for
Epilepsy
Effect sight because he took so much
Where did they get medicine for pain
Willow
Why was the willow used for pain
It grows everywhere
American Indians found it
Needed a lot of water
Was the asprin till 1900
Who was Edward stone
Reverend
He thought if the swamp was making you sick then God was putting the clue in the swamp
Taste the leaves
Takes to church and make them feel better
What was salatic
Today’s compound W
Was rough on the body
Where’d asprin come for
Bayer
When Germany lost ww1 had to give us the patan for asprin
What are the three properties of asprin
Analgesic-pain relief
Autinflamitory- swelling
Antigynet- fever reduce
Who was John vane
English researcher
Avoided heart attacks because he took asprin everyday
What did dr rye do
Rye syndrome
He found that when kids took regular asprin after chicken pox or flu certain percent died
What did fever tree treat
Malaria
What is malaria
Get fever chills
Airburn
One to two million die per year
What awesome old cures for malaria
Cut open skill and let demons out
Amputations
What is malaria caused by
Plasmodium
Little worms
Where is people more saseptable to acquire malaria
Mexico
Upper half of South America
New cure “treatment”
Quinine
Who was Juan de lugo
Shipped from Vadican
Studied fever tree for ten years
Who was Robert talbot
Thought he was a feverologist
When Charles the 2nd and king Louis get sick who do they send
Robert talbot
Does Robert cure both kings
Yes
What was king Louis deal to Robert
Give rob so much gold and rob gives the king the recipient to cure but he won’t look at it until rob dies
What happens when rob dies
King gets cure and finds out it was just quinine but it tasted better
What is happening to plasmodium after ww2
It’s getting immune to quantine
What did poppy do to people
Caused pain relief
People To go to sleep
What was used for pain caugh and dirriah
Opium
How does people get poppy
There was 20,000 poppies per acher
Has to be handled by hand
Don’t put fork to deep it will scrap off capsule
What is morphine
Found in poppy seed
Commonly used for surgery
Big in civil war time
Army men became addicted to morphine
What is in latex
Codine
What is codeine
Relief from Cough
One molecule different from. Morphine
Found in Tylenol
Raw opium doesn’t dissolve in water but dissolves in what
Alcohol
If you wanted a buzz by what
Raw opium plus alcohol
What was opium used for
Soothing syrup for babies
What was Bayer felex haughman named for
Herb
What is penicillin
Fungus
Blue cheese that was rotted
Who founded penicillin
Ernest Duchane
Who was Ernest Duchane
Invented penicillin
Had horses and saw saddle in the dark took the moldy saddle and put it on horses back to take care of it.
Not know gets tb and dies
Who was Alexander Fleming
Found penicillin by accident
Worked at hospital
Petite plate with fungus and bacteria
What is zone of inhibition
Zone where bacteria isn’t because of fungi
What is penicill IN
Drug
What is penicillium
Fungus
Who is Howard Florey
Saved two million people
Why isn’t the bacteria growing
What did Florey do with the mice
Gave them strep
Gave four antibiotic four not
Three lived
Shows it worked on mammals
When was the first human trial
1940
What happened in first human trial
Cut face on thorn and gets infected and head was rotting off.
Nothing to loose so he tried the trial
Eyes clear up
Run out of it so he dies
First saved by penicillin
Anne miller
What did Anne miller have
Uterine probs
Doc ran out of ideas
Got penicillin was saved
How do you grow penicillin
Huge incubators
By dday they had 300billion units
How did they try to find more penicillin
People sent in their mold food
What did moldy Mary send in
Moldy canalope
It was 2000x stronger than original spore
Price went down bc it was common
How does penicillin work
Bacteria grows itself to death
What are the nightshade family
Pepper
Tomatoes
Chillie
Tabaco
What is atripine
Eye test
Dialate pupil
Secretion
What is scopolamine
Decreases motion sickness
Treat heroine and coke addiction
Helped with child birth
Stopped in 50s bc it hurts babies