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Rationale 3: Modern pharmacology began in the 1800s, not 1600s.
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Rationale 5: Little is known about pharmacology during the Dark Ages.
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Rationale 3: Earlypharmacology involved using plants to relieve symptoms of suffering.
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Rationale 4: The early root of pharmacology was not to understand how drugs take their effects.
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a m edical condition.
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symptoms of a medical condition. A drug is not a substance that is found in nature or that normally occurs in the
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human body; it is not any substance that is synthesized and tested in the laboratory setting, nor is it only a
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Rationale 4: The cost of drug therapy is not a principle of drug administration.
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Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
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Rationale 1: Earlyresearchers did use themselves and animals as test subjects.
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Rationale 2: Pharmacologists did begin to synthesize drugs in the laboratory in the 20th century.
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Rationale 3: Modern pharmacology began in the 1800s, not 1600s.
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Rationale 4: The first drugs included morphine and cocaine, but not penicillin.
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Rationale 5: Little is known about pharmacology during the Dark Ages.
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Global Rationale: The nurse would state that early researchers did use themselves and animals as test
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roots of pharmacology?
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Rationale 1: The early root of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering.
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Rationale 2: The earlyroot of pharmacology was not to create new drugs quickly.
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Rationale 3: Earlypharmacology involved using plants to relieve symptoms of suffering.
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Rationale 4: The early root of pharmacology was not to understand how drugs take their effects.
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Global Rationale: The early root of pharmacology was to relieve human suffering, not to create new
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Rationale 2:Adrug is not only a substance that is synthesized and tested.
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a m edical condition.
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Rationale 4:Adrug is not only a substance isolated from natural substances.
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human body; it is not any substance that is synthesized and tested in the laboratory setting, nor is it only a
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