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Hx of Medicine and Pharmacy

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Apothecary   Latin term for pharmacist; also a place were drugs are sold  
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Bloodletting   The practice of draining blood ; believed to release illness  
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Caduceus   Often confused as the symbol of the medical field; is a staff with two entwined snakes and two wings on top  
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Dogma   A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true  
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Hippocratic Oath   An oath taken by physicians concerning the ethics and practice of medicine  
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Inpatient pharmacies   Pharmacies in a hospital or institutional setting  
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Laudanum   A mixture of opium and alcohol used to treat dozens of illnesses through the 1800s  
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Leeches   A type of segmented worm with suckers that attaches to the skin of a host and engorges itself on the host's blood  
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Maggots   Fly larvae that feed on dead tissue; used in medicine to clean wounds not responding to routine antibiotics  
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Medicine   The science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease  
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Opioid   Any agent that binds to opioid receptors  
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Opium   An analgesic that is made from the Poppy plant  
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Pharmacist   Person who dispenses drugs and counsels patients on medication use and any interactions it may have with food and other drugs  
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Pharmacy   A place were drugs are sold  
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Pharmacy clerk   Person who assists the Pharmacist at the front counter of the pharmacy; the person who accepts payment for medications  
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Pharmacy Technician   Person who assists a Pharmacist by filling prescrriptions and performing other nondiscretionary tasks  
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PTCB   Pharmacy Technician Certification Board- Issues a national exam for Pharmacy Technicians 1995  
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Shaman   A person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe as a healer and spiritual mediator  
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Staff of Asclepius   The symbol of the medical profession; it is a wingless staff with one snake wrapped around it  
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Trephining   A practice of making an opening in the head to allow disease to leave the body  
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Aristotle   Greek scientist, and philosopher.responsible for many advances in biology and medicine. Experimented on animals. Described much of huan anatomy from animals he dissected.Brain heart lungs and blood vessels.  
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Asclepius   Greek god of healing and medicine  
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Roger Bacon   English scientist responsible for scientific methods  
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Francis Crick   Co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, the double helix  
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Gerhard Domagk   Devoloped sulfonamides and synthetic antibiotics. sulfanomides was discovered from a chemical dye found to inhibit bacterial growth. 3 S's Sulfanomide, soil, synthetic. 1938 WW2  
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Alexander Fleming   Scottish physicisian and bacteriologist. Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. contaminated a plate of bacteria w mold 1928.  
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Claudius Galen   Greek physician, proved that blood flows through arteries rather than air balanced diet, exercising , good hygine followed in the foot steps of Hippoctrates. wrote over 100 books 3PDA(physiology, pathology, pharmacology, diagnosis, anatomy.  
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Hippocrates   Greek physician and philosopher, considered to be the father of medicine. balancing the 4 elements was linked to good helth. Imbalancing the humors of the body resultd in illness. Wrote Corpus Hippocratium. believed in natural healing by resting, and eat  
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Gregor Mendel   Scientist and monk, known as the father of genetics pea plants.  
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Florence Nightingale   Nurse who was reponsible for improving the sanitary conditions at a British base hospital believed in clenliness and started hospital and school for nurses  
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Paracelsus   Swiss physician, philosopher, and scinetist. Introduce laudanum used to deaden pain. parachute Treat patients with one medication at a time.  
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Louis Pasteur   Fench scientist, discovered several vaccines and invented pasteurization. anthrax vaccine.  
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James Watson   Co-discoverer of molecular structure of DNA, the double helix  
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ASHP   Created compencies for organized health care settings in1977  
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Division between physicians and pharmacists began after which war?   Civil division of states because of war  
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ASHP created accreditation standards in   1982  
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vaccines did not deleop until   1796 (1776 independance plus 20 yers)  
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prohibited pharmacists from making cocaine dranks b/c of what act in what year?   Harrison Drug Narcotic Act 1914  
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