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Ancient Greece, Theophrastus


Ans: -textbook on therapeutics


-opium (codeine and morphine)


-codeine: mild pain relief


-morphine: intense pain relief




Ancient Egypt, Papyrus


Ans: -purgatives


-senna still available and used today




Ancient China

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Ans: -earliest drug experiments 2700 BC


-classified according to taste


-Mua Huang: medium drug for cough, flu, fevers


-Ephedrine from mua huang (for asthma or derivative decongestant)




Curare


Ans: -dipped arrows


-cause paralysis and death in animals


-later used by anesthetists




Ergot (what is it, what are the three things it causes?)


Ans: -fungus grows on rye, contaminated bread, killed people in Russia


-caused mental frenzy, hallucinations, convulsions


-constrict blood supply (burning sensation, limbs fall off)


-violent uterine contractions (sometimes used to speed up labour)

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What can be made from ergot? (3)


Ans: -LSD


-Ergotamine: migraine treatment if from pulsation of blood vessels(bc

constrict blood supply)


-Ergonovine: arrest uterine bleeding after childbirth




Reserpine and Chlorpromazine (what is it used for and where does it

come from)


Ans: -rauwolfia plant


-reduce tension, anxiety, lower blood pressure


-calm mentally ill patients (calmed aggressive animals)


-correct dose hard to determine




LSD (what does it stand for, where does it come from and what are

its effects?)

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Ans: -Lysergic Acid Diethylamide


-ergot


-psychedelic effects




Historical anaesthetics


Ans: -nitrous oxide


-ether




Paul Ehrlich (3)


Ans: -organoarsenicals (arsenic and organic molecules)


-selectively bind parasites


-lead to syphilis cure




Gerhard Domagk (3)