Pharmacy and Health Care
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| Panacea | a cure-all
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| Pharmacology | the study of drugs and their properties, uses, application, and effects
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| 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
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| Jesuits Powder | Treatment for Malaria
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| Coca leaves | First local anesthetic used by Carl Koller in 1884 in dentistry. Better known as cocaine and addictive
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| Foxglove Plant | Digitalis 1785 William Withering. Treats heart disease
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| Mexican Yam | 1943 Russell Marker created hormone progesterone, first reliable birth control.
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| Antibiotic | a substance that harms or kills microorganisms like bacteria and fungi
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| Synthetic | combining simpler chemicals into me complex compounds, creating a new chemical not found in nature
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| Edward Jenner | 1796 vaccine against smallpox from the cowpox disease
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| Sarsaparilla | 1500 AD used for kidney and bladder ailments. Still found today in many medicinal teas.
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| Dr. Zabdiel Boylston | 1721 AD the first person to administer a smallpox vaccine.
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| 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
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| 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
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| hormones | chemicals produced by the body that regulate body functions and processes.
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| Louis Pasteur | 1864 showed that microorganisms cause food spoilage, and heat can be used to kill them and preserve the food/
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| Alexander Fleming | 1928 discovered a fungus that produces a chemical that kills bacteria. Penicillin
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| James Watson, Francis Crick | 1951 identified the structure of DNA
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| Dr. Jonas Salk | 1955 refined injectable polio vacine
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| Albert Sabin | 1957 developed an oral polio vacine
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| Frederick Banting, Charles Best | 1921 extract of the hormone insulin lowers blood sugar in dogs.
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| James B Collip | 1921-22 biochemist insulin pure enough to on humans, proved successful.
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| data | information that is entered into and stored in a computer system
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