Term | Definition |
Panacea | a cure-all |
Pharmacology | the study of drugs and their properties, uses, application, and effects |
Nature's Aspirin | Salicylic Acid made from white willow bark. However in 1899, acetylsalicylic acid had to be formed, because salicylic acid was difficult to take, and is known as aspirin |
Jesuits Powder | Treatment for Malaria |
Coca leaves | First local anesthetic used by Carl Koller in 1884 in dentistry. Better known as cocaine and addictive |
Foxglove Plant | Digitalis 1785 William Withering. Treats heart disease |
Mexican Yam | 1943 Russell Marker created hormone progesterone, first reliable birth control. |
Antibiotic | a substance that harms or kills microorganisms like bacteria and fungi |
Synthetic | combining simpler chemicals into me complex compounds, creating a new chemical not found in nature |
Edward Jenner | 1796 vaccine against smallpox from the cowpox disease |
Sarsaparilla | 1500 AD used for kidney and bladder ailments. Still found today in many medicinal teas. |
Dr. Zabdiel Boylston | 1721 AD the first person to administer a smallpox vaccine. |
antitoxin | a substance that acts against a toxin in the body; also, a vaccine containing antitoxins, used to fight disease. 1890 antitoxins were developed for diphtheria and tetanus |
human genome | the complete set of generic material contained in a human cell. 1988 human genome project was started to map the entire DNA sequence |
hormones | chemicals produced by the body that regulate body functions and processes. |
Louis Pasteur | 1864 showed that microorganisms cause food spoilage, and heat can be used to kill them and preserve the food/ |
Alexander Fleming | 1928 discovered a fungus that produces a chemical that kills bacteria. Penicillin |
James Watson, Francis Crick | 1951 identified the structure of DNA |
Dr. Jonas Salk | 1955 refined injectable polio vacine |
Albert Sabin | 1957 developed an oral polio vacine |
Frederick Banting, Charles Best | 1921 extract of the hormone insulin lowers blood sugar in dogs. |
James B Collip | 1921-22 biochemist insulin pure enough to on humans, proved successful. |
data | information that is entered into and stored in a computer system |