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Primitive man - ANSWER ✔✔• Plants and animal parts- cathartic,
means to get rid of, get rid of evil spirits normally through diarrhea or
vomiting
• Home remedies passed down from generation to generation
Prior to the 20th century - ANSWER ✔✔-Got medications from
plants, animals, insulin from cows and pigs, some meds from snakes,
and currently get from toxic frogs and vampire bats
- Inorganic substances (like Calcium carbonate) calm down symptoms
,compounding pharmacy (Prior to the 20th century) - ANSWER
✔✔compound different types of medications to create a unique
combination
Treatment options by year (Prior to the 20th century) - ANSWER
✔✔•Bacterial infections were life threatening prior to antibiotic
•1908- Sulfa drugs were the first antibiotics
•1922- Insulin was created
• 1942- penicillin
• 1955- polio vaccine or have morbidity from polio
20th century drugs - ANSWER ✔✔
Drugs are any chemical that is capable of interacting with a living
organism to produce a biological effect. - ANSWER ✔✔Any drug that
produces one effect has other effects, All drugs have side effects
Herbs and Supplements - ANSWER ✔✔We need to know what
patients are taking, obtain during medical history, how much do you take,
interact with medications, if not asked we might not be aware of drug
interactions
, Origins of Drugs (only need to know drug classes in italics) -
ANSWER ✔✔ACE Inhibitors- Pit viper to treatment of hypertension
Botulinum toxin- Spoiled sausage potent toxin to treatment of facial
wrinkles
Wafarin0- Spoiled sweet clover, rat poison to anticoagulant, rats bleed to
death
Curare- South America arrow poison to OR muscle relaxant, comes from
frogs
Drug Regulation: FDA - ANSWER ✔✔does not do not need to know
exact dates, just the importance
FDA - ANSWER ✔✔does not invent new drugs, just regulate them
new drug acts occur because something went wrong
1906 - ANSWER ✔✔Federal Pure Food and Drug Act: up until now
all of compounding pharmacies could make whatever they wanted with
any ingredients, this legislation was to protect public from OD, fraud,
impurities
1938 - ANSWER ✔✔Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: set standards for
how compounding pharmacies could formulate meds, certain strength
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Primitive man - ANSWER ✔✔• Plants and animal parts- cathartic,
means to get rid of, get rid of evil spirits normally through diarrhea or
vomiting
• Home remedies passed down from generation to generation
Prior to the 20th century - ANSWER ✔✔-Got medications from
plants, animals, insulin from cows and pigs, some meds from snakes,
and currently get from toxic frogs and vampire bats
- Inorganic substances (like Calcium carbonate) calm down symptoms
,compounding pharmacy (Prior to the 20th century) - ANSWER
✔✔compound different types of medications to create a unique
combination
Treatment options by year (Prior to the 20th century) - ANSWER
✔✔•Bacterial infections were life threatening prior to antibiotic
•1908- Sulfa drugs were the first antibiotics
•1922- Insulin was created
• 1942- penicillin
• 1955- polio vaccine or have morbidity from polio
20th century drugs - ANSWER ✔✔
Drugs are any chemical that is capable of interacting with a living
organism to produce a biological effect. - ANSWER ✔✔Any drug that
produces one effect has other effects, All drugs have side effects
Herbs and Supplements - ANSWER ✔✔We need to know what
patients are taking, obtain during medical history, how much do you take,
interact with medications, if not asked we might not be aware of drug
interactions
, Origins of Drugs (only need to know drug classes in italics) -
ANSWER ✔✔ACE Inhibitors- Pit viper to treatment of hypertension
Botulinum toxin- Spoiled sausage potent toxin to treatment of facial
wrinkles
Wafarin0- Spoiled sweet clover, rat poison to anticoagulant, rats bleed to
death
Curare- South America arrow poison to OR muscle relaxant, comes from
frogs
Drug Regulation: FDA - ANSWER ✔✔does not do not need to know
exact dates, just the importance
FDA - ANSWER ✔✔does not invent new drugs, just regulate them
new drug acts occur because something went wrong
1906 - ANSWER ✔✔Federal Pure Food and Drug Act: up until now
all of compounding pharmacies could make whatever they wanted with
any ingredients, this legislation was to protect public from OD, fraud,
impurities
1938 - ANSWER ✔✔Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: set standards for
how compounding pharmacies could formulate meds, certain strength
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
