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PHM1000 De More1
PHM1000 Pharmacy Technician Chp 1, Pharmacy & Health Care De More
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Shen Nung | 1st practictioners or "trial and error" drug testing of herbs (365) used in health treatment. |
| Aesculapius | Greek god of medicine |
| Hippocrates | Approached the study of medicine with an approach grounded in scientific reasoning and patient observation. |
| King Mithridates of Pontos | Practiced and early form of immunization by slowly injesting various poisons to build tolerance to to them. |
| Papyrus Ebers | 1100 page scroll that dates back to 1500 BC. Includes 800 prescriptions using 700 drugs. |
| Imhotep | First physician known by name. 3000 BC. |
| Dioscorides | Wrote the De Materia Medica, five books describing over 500 plants & their healing properties. |
| Galen | Believe in Theory of Four Humours. Man needed each to be in balance to be in good health. Advocated bleeding to balance the humours. (Blood, yellow bile, black bile, phlegm) |
| Charaka | Wrote the Charaka Samhita, first bokk of Indian medicine; described 500 herbal drugs. |
| Paracelus | Credited with firmly establishing the use of chemistry to create medicinal drugs. Also created laudenaum. |
| William Withering | Published study on the use of the foxglove plant and the drug it contained (digitalis) for treatment of heart disease. |
| Frederich Serturner | German pharmacist who firts extracted morphine from opium |
| Ether | First general anesthetic used. First publicized use in Boston, 1846. |
| Louis Pasteur | Experiments showed microorganisms cause food spoilage, which proved influential on the acceptance of germ theory. Germ theory - theory that microorganisms cause disease. |
| Cocaine | First local anesthetic; used by Carl Kolle rin 1884. |
| ASA | Aspirin, acetylsalacylic acid. In 1899 developed for widespread use (instead of salycilic acid of the willow tree, which was difficult to cultivate/use/distribute) |
| Banting and Best | Instrumental in demonstrating the effective use of pork insulin in patients with diabetes (Type 1/Juvenile/Insulin dependant). Extracted from pigs and used in dogs to control blood sugar levels. |
| Alexander Fleming | Discovered a fungus which produces a chemical that kills bacteria. Named the chemical penicillin, the first antibiotic. Credited as a factor in reducing the amount of disease related deaths in World War II compared to the US Civil War and World War I |
| Watson and Crick | First identified the structure of DNA, the basic component within a cell that contains genetic code. |
| Jonas Salk | Developed a refined injectable polio vaccine, 1955. |
| Birth Control Pill | Introduced in 1960 |
| Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome | AIDS; First documented case in 1981 |
| azidothymidine | AZT; First drug approved by FDA for AIDS treatment. |
| Human Genome Project | 1988; Goal is to map the entire DNA sequence in the human genome. |
| 77.9 | As of 2007, the average human life span in the United States |
| 64% | Percentage increase in the US life span |
| 1,500% | Percentage increase in health care costs from 1970 to 2000 |
| Jesuits Powder | Quinine; used to treat malaria. |
| antibiotic | substance which harms or kills microorganisms like bacteria and fungi |
| antitoxin | substance that acts against a toxin in the body |
| data | information entered into and stored in a computer system |
| hormones | chemicals produced by the body that regulate body functions and processes |
| human genome | complete set of genetic material contained in a human cell |
| materia medica | pharmacology; drugs in use |
| panacea | a cure-all |
| pharmaceutical | of or about drugs; also, drug product |
| pharmacognosy | study of physical, chimical, biochemical and biological properties of drugs as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources |
| pharmacology | study of drug properties, uses, application and effects |
| pharmacopeia | an authoritative listing of drugs and issues related to their use |
| synthetic | combining simpler chemicals into more complex ones, creating a new chemical not found in nature |
| Computer Systems | can be used for patient profiles, billing, inventory, counseling/education, security, pricing, Dr. profiles, product selction, allergy/medication reviews; tailored to needs of pharmacy. |
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