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9-3-25 Ch1 RX histry
Rx History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apothecary | Latin term for pharmacist; also, a place where drugs are sold |
| Bloodletting | The practice of draining blood; believed to release illness |
| Caduceus | confused as the symbol of the medical field" it is a staff with two snakes intertwined with wings up top |
| Dogma | A set of principles laid out by an authority as inarguably correct |
| Hippocratic Oath | An oath taken by physicians concerning the ethics and practice of medicine. |
| Impatient pharmacies | Pharmacies in a hospital or institutional setting |
| Laudanum | A mixture of opium and alcohol used to treat dozens of illnesses through 1800s |
| Leech | A type of segmented worm that sucks the blood out of the skin of the host it is attached to |
| Maggots | Fly larvae that feed on dead tissue; used in medicine to clean wounds not responding to anti-biotics |
| Medicine | The science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease |
| Opioid | Any agent that binds to opioid receptors |
| Opium | An analgesic that is made from the poppy plant |
| Pharmacist | Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients on medication use and any interactions it may have on food or other drugs |
| Pharmacy | A place where drugs are sold |
| Pharmacy Technician | Professional who works under pharmacist's supervision to provide medicine and health care services to patients |
| PTCB (Pharmacy Technician Certification Board) | Issues a national examination for pharmacy technicians |
| Shaman | A person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe as a healer and spiritual mediator |
| Staff of Asclepius | symbol of the medical profession; it is a wingless staff with one snake wrapped around it |
| Trephining | A practice of making an opening in the head to allow disease to leave the body. |
| Aristotle | Greek scientist; philosopher |
| Asclepius | Greek god of healing and medicine for scientific methods |
| Bacon, Roger | English scientist responsible for scientific methods |
| Crick, Francis | Co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, the double helix |
| Domagk, Gerhard | Developed sulfonamides and synthetic antibiotics |
| Fleming, Alexander | Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic |
| Galen, Claudius | Greek physician |
| Hippocrates | Greek philosopher and physician, considered to be the father of medicine |
| Mendel, Gregor | Scientist and monk, known as father of genetics |
| Nightingale, Florence | Nurse responsible for improving the unsanitary conditions at a British base, during Crimean War reducing death couth |
| Paracelsus, | Swiss physician, philosopher, and scientist |
| Pasteur, Louis | French scientist, discovered several vaccinations and invented pasteurization |
| Watson, James | Co-discoverer of DNA, the double helix |
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