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Drug

Is an agent intended for use in the diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, cure or prevention of disease in humans or in other animal

Mydriatic Drug

The kind of drugs that alter or change abnormal physiologic functions

Drug (Replacement Therapy)

Drugs that are given to supplement endogenous substances that are missing or lacking in the body

Antineoplastic Drugs

Drugs that are used to inhibit the growth or kill microorganisms/cells

Dosage Unit

Are preparations designed to contain a specified quantity of medication for ease and accuracy of dosage administration

Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients(API)

Another name for active ingredients

Pharmaceutical Excipients

Another term for inactive ingredients

Pharmakon

Ancient Greek word means pharmacy

Four Failures on treatment at the time of the apothecary

•Doubtless due to impotent or inappropriate medicines


•Underdosage


•Overdosage


•Poisoning

Attributed to the success of the treatment

•Experience


•mere coincidence of appropriate drug selection


•Natural healing


•Inconsequential effect of the drug


•Placebo effects

Ebers Papyrus

Translated 800 formulas and prescription

Vehicles commonly used at the time of Papyrus Ebers

•Beer


•Wine


•Milk


•Honey

Polypharmacy

Many of the formulas employed two dozens or more medicinal agents

Hippocrates

The father of medicine and formulated the Hippocratic oath of Physician

Pharmakon

Greek word that means purifying remedy for good only

Dioscorides

Greek physician and Botanist who deal with applied science

De Materia Medica

Book that contains the description of identifying natural products, methods and storage

Drug.

What does Pharmakon means

Knowledge

What does gnosis means

Claudius Galen

He originated many preparations of vegetable drugs by mixing or melting the individual ingredients, it was called Galenicals.

Galen's Cerate

Most famous formula made by Galen which is similar to Cold Cream

Edict of Salerno

Law that first fixed separation of the Physician and apothecary

Two Sicilies

Law that regulated the practice of pharmacy within the part of his kingdom

Emperor Frederick II of Germany

The emperor who made Edict of Salerno

Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

Complete name of Paracelsus

Paracelsus

He influenced the transformation of pharmacy from a profession based primarily on botanic science to one based on chemical science

Contribution of Karl Wilhelm Scheele

•LOCTA (Lactic, Oxalic, Citric, Tartaric, Arsenic) Acid


•Identified Glycerin


•Invented new methods of preparing calomel and benzoic acid


•Discovered Oxygen a year before Priestly

Contribution of Friedrich Serturner

Isolated morphine from opium

Joseph Pelletier and Pierre Robiquet

Isolated caffeine

Pierre Robiquet

He separated codeine from opium

Cinchona

Joseph Caventou and Joseph Pelletier isolated quinine and cinchonine from...

Nux Vomica

Isolated strychnine and brucine from...

Paclitaxel (Taxol)

Used for the treatment of ovarian carcinoma

Vincaleukoblastine

Used as antineoplastic agent from vinca resea

Digoxin

From digitalis lanata as cardiac glycoside

Pelletier and Serturner

They applied the preparation of the drug products with the highest standards of purity, uniformity and efficacy

Drug Standards

As the scientific basis for drugs and drug products developed, so did the need for uniform standards to ensure quality

Pharmacopeia and formularies

Organized sets of monographs or book of standards

Monographs and Reference books

Involved in the production of drugs and pharmaceutical products

British Pharmacopeia

Pharmacopeia the replaces the three city pharmacopeias in Great Britain

Lititz Pharmacopeia

The first American pharmacopeia

Lyman Spalding

Father of United States Pharmacopeia

January 1,1820 in Washington, DC.

When and where was the first US pharmacopeia convention

1850

Year when pharmacist was awarded with full membership to USP

Decembet 15,1820

When was USP published in English and Latin

In 1840, the USP was revised every _____ years

5 years

Popular drugs and formulas denied admission to the USP

What is the content of National Formularies

NF section

Monographs of all Pharmaceutical agents

R.A 5921

(Philippine) Pharmacy Law

R.A 9257

Expanded Senior Citizen Act of 2003

R.A 8203

Special Law on Counterfeit Drugs

R.A 9502

Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quantity Medicines Act of 2008