history of pharma

what times in historry of pharmacology where A series of scattered facts exists that speak of the

early history of humankind's efforts to harness the

healing properties of natural compounds. However,

what we know for certain is that ancient peoples

made ext ensi ve use of pl ant , ani mal and mi neral

sour ces for this purpose.

(a)  

digitalis purpurea is also known as

(a)  

From the (a)   of this plant (purple focglove) was isolated the

car d i ac gl ycosi d e d i gi t al i s, a drug still used today

to treat heart failure.

For example, the purple foxglove, D i gi t al i s

pur pur ea, was one of twenty herbs used in a folk remedy to treat ___ in ___ century England.

(a)  

Over time, as a more sophisticated view of illness

evolved, an increasingly scientific approach to the

isolation of drugs from natural products was taken.

In the early (a)   century,

From the leaves of this plant was isolated the

(a)   , a drug still used today to treat heart failure.

written in Egypt in the 16th

century, B.C., lists the extensive pharmacopeias of

that civilizatio

(a)  

was the first to introduce the

knowledge about health and disease.

(a)  

Nightingale was the first to introduce the

knowledge about health and disease.

• true

• false

From anci ent C h i na comes evidence of that

culture's extensive efforts to heal through the use

of natural products. The (a)   , or G r eat H erb al ,

comprised 40 volumes describing several

thousands of prescriptions.