Chapter 1 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Apothecary | Latin term for pharmacist; also a place were drugs are sold |
| Bloodletting | The practice of draining blood ; believed to release illness |
| Caduceus | Often confused as the symbol of the medical field; is a staff with two entwined snakes and two wings on top |
| Dogma | A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true |
| Hippocratic Oath | An oath taken by physicians concerning the ethics and practice of medicine |
| Inpatient pharmacies | Pharmacies in a hospital or institutional setting |
| Laudanum | A mixture of opium and alcohol used to treat dozens of illnesses through the 1800s |
| Leeches | A type of segmented worm with suckers that attaches to the skin of a host and engorges itself on the host's blood |
| Maggots | Fly larvae that feed on dead tissue; used in medicine to clean wounds not responding to routine antibiotics |
| Medicine | The science and art dealing with the maintenance of health and the 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 with food and other drugs |
| Pharmacy | A place were drugs are sold |
| Pharmacy clerk | Person who assists the Pharmacist at the front counter of the pharmacy; the person who accepts payment for medications |
| Pharmacy Technician | Person who assists a Pharmacist by filling prescrriptions and performing other nondiscretionary tasks |
| PTCB | Pharmacy Technician Certification Board- Issues a national exam for Pharmacy Technicians 1995 |
| Shaman | A person who holds a high place of honor in a tribe as a healer and spiritual mediator |
| Staff of Asclepius | The 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, 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. |
| Asclepius | Greek god of healing and medicine |
| Roger Bacon | English scientist responsible for scientific methods |
| Francis Crick | Co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, the double helix |
| 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 |
| Alexander Fleming | Scottish physicisian and bacteriologist. Discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic. contaminated a plate of bacteria w mold 1928. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Gregor Mendel | Scientist and monk, known as the father of genetics pea plants. |
| 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 |
| Paracelsus | Swiss physician, philosopher, and scinetist. Introduce laudanum used to deaden pain. parachute Treat patients with one medication at a time. |
| Louis Pasteur | Fench scientist, discovered several vaccines and invented pasteurization. anthrax vaccine. |
| James Watson | Co-discoverer of molecular structure of DNA, the double helix |
| ASHP | Created compencies for organized health care settings in1977 |
| Division between physicians and pharmacists began after which war? | Civil division of states because of war |
| ASHP created accreditation standards in | 1982 |
| vaccines did not deleop until | 1796 (1776 independance plus 20 yers) |
| prohibited pharmacists from making cocaine dranks b/c of what act in what year? | Harrison Drug Narcotic Act 1914 |
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