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phat 142 week 1 mode 6 bh
| Study Guide mode 6 week 1 |
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| Homeostasis - the attainment and retainment of equilibrium in the body through the appropriate use of drugs and diet |
| Hippocrates - is known as the "Father of Medicine" |
| The earliest examples of healing can be found in Greece |
| Pharmacognosy - is the science that deals with the medicinal ingredients in living plants |
| Theophrastus - is known as the "Father of Botony" |
| De Materia Medica contained information on more than 600 plants and 90 minerals |
| Galen is the arthor of On the Art of Healing |
| Pharmacotherapy is treatment of disease with medications |
| Streptomycin is the first antibiotic that was effective against tubercle bacillus, the infective agent in tuberculosis |
| Myrrh is used as a appetite stimulant in the book of Genesis |
| Germany presently leads in setting standards for natural remedies |
| Pharmakon is the word for drug that was used in the Hippocratic writtings |
| Salvarson was the first antibiotic used in Therapy |
| The Black Plague a disease that killed almost 1/3 of the inhabitants of Europe between 1347 and 1350 |
| Mithradates VI is known as the "Father of Toxicology" |
| Allopathy is the tx concept that was employed by the Greeks to treat symptoms and diseases with drugs that restore health by causing the opposite effect |
| Homeopathy is the tx concept that uses very dilute substances that cause the same effect as the symptom |
| Shen-Nung is the known as the "Father of Chinese Pharmaceutics" |
| Herbs are leafy plants used as a medicinal of flavoring agent |
| Phlegm viscous mucous that is secreated orally |
| William Withering discovered Digoxin |
| Johannes Buchner discovered salicin in willow bark and nicotine in tobacco |
| Abraham Lincoln est the U.S. sanitary commission, because of the wanton conditions of poor sanitation/ depressing environment and pt and staffing misery at the union hospital in Georgetown, Va described in Louisa May Alcotts book, Hospital Sketches |
| Fredrick Serturner prepared salts of morphine |
| Gerhard Domaak discovered the sulfa drug, Protonsil |
| Bernard Courtois discovered Iodine |
| Karl Scheele discovered arsenic, chlorine, and glycerine |
| Edward Jenner discovered small pox vaccine |
| Jonas Salk discovered injectable vaccine for polio |
| Albert Sabin discovered oral vaccine for polio |
| pyrogen - a substance that produces fever |
| enteral - a method of nutrient delivery in which medication is given directly into the gastrointestinal tract |
| parenteral - administration via injection |
| bolus - an initial dose |
| metathesis - a mere change in plasce of a morbid substance, without removal from the body |
| phlebitis - inflammation of a vein |
| piggyback - delivery of a secondary IV solution from an outside source into an IV line containing fluid from an existing line |
| sepsis - the presence of organisms in the blood |
| anteroom - the room located right outside the clean room; it is a low-particulate room, which means that it should not contain paper, boxes, or high particulate matter. no food/drinks allowed |
| desiccation - the act of dehydrating or removing water content |
| germicidal - describes an agent that kills pathogenic microorganisms |
| particulates small matter |
| single dose vial (SDV)a vial that cantains no preservatives, once the container is entered, contaminants may have been introduced and the container is no longer sterile |
| vial - a small bottle or container that holds products such as injectable medications |
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