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A Chapter 1 Reveiw
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Three things used for medication in early times? | animal, plants, minerals |
| Why is the staff of Asclepius only one snake? | cause snakes shed their skin it is believed to signify renewal of youth |
| what is the staff of Asclepius? | A wingless walking stick with a single snake wrapped around it |
| Who uses the caduceus? | many organizations still use it except the authoritative health organizations who use the true symbol of medicine |
| What were the four elements taught by Hippocrates? | dry, wet, hot, and cold |
| What are the four humors and elements they are tied to? | blood=air, phlegm=water, yellow bile=fire, and black bile=earth |
| How did Aristotle describe are organs? | by dissecting other animals and giving detailed descriptions of the organs |
| How many book did Galen write and what did he prove? | more than one hundred books and that blood flowed through arteries and veins rather than air |
| Paracelsus did what? | Believed in one medication at a time and through experimentation and documentation was able to create many medications including laudanum |
| What did civil war soldiers use to treat their wounds? | laudanum |
| What is an opioid? | a synthetic or semisynthetic opiate |
| What was the first natural and synthetic antibiotics? | penicillin in 1928(mushroom) and sulfonamide in 1938 (chemical dye) use in WWII for battle wounds |
| What vaccines did Louis Pasteur create? | rabies, chickenpox, cholera, and anthrax 1877-1887 |
| Edward Jenner created what vaccine in England? | smallpox 1796 |
| Emil Von Behring made what vaccines? | 1896 typhoid fever vaccine, 1926 pertussis vaccine for whooping cough, and six different vaccines for influenza by 1946 |
| Jonas Salk made what vaccine in America? | polio vaccines |
| What is Manuka? | A honey that keeps the wound moist, is bacteria free, and also has minerals, high sugar content, and amino acids the promotes healing: It was approved in America and Canada in 2007 as a medication |
| What was the purpose of show globes in a pharmacy? | to let travelers know the health of the town and also show the competency of the pharmacist |
| What was the popular thing in pharmacies in the late 1800s-early 1900s? | sodas mixed by the pharmacist of their own recipes with drugs mixed with certain flavors even additives such as caffeine and cocaine |
| What year was the PTCB created? | 1995 |
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