“Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.” That is Paracelsus’s opinion on medicine. All medicines are drugs, but not all drugs are medicines. Medicines are used to cure, halt, or prevent diseases. And drugs are given to scientists following certain instructions to make drugs. Medicines have been discovered since back to fifth century B.C. Out of so many great achievements in history. I favor William Morton the most. He is the man who conquered the pain. William Morton is actually the last person on the history line who deals with anaesthesia. But he is the first one who succeed to
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The two main class are prescription drugs and over the counter drugs. Prescription drugs are prescribed by doctors and brought at a pharmacy that is specifically for that person and no one else. And over the counter drugs don’t need doctor’s prescription to get it and instead going to pharmacy you can go to a store to buy it off the shelves.There are different kinds of formats of medicines for people to use depends on what they are good for. Liquid is for easier to take or for better absorbed for the body, tablet is a round or oval shape that can be easily dissolved in water, capsules is in a plastic shell that slowly dissolve in your stomach, topically are things like creams or lotions that is directly onto the skin, suppositories is a drug in a bullet shape so it can be inserted into the rectum and go through your blood, but it cannot be swallowed, drops are used for eyes, ears and noses, inhalers is directly pressed into the lung, injection are like shots that go through your skin, implants or patches are things that you put on your skin to let it slowly absorbs, buccal are tablets that you put inside of your month close to your cheek and let it dissolve in your mouth, and sublingual are the same as buccal tablets except it is put under your
The two main class are prescription drugs and over the counter drugs. Prescription drugs are prescribed by doctors and brought at a pharmacy that is specifically for that person and no one else. And over the counter drugs don’t need doctor’s prescription to get it and instead going to pharmacy you can go to a store to buy it off the shelves.There are different kinds of formats of medicines for people to use depends on what they are good for. Liquid is for easier to take or for better absorbed for the body, tablet is a round or oval shape that can be easily dissolved in water, capsules is in a plastic shell that slowly dissolve in your stomach, topically are things like creams or lotions that is directly onto the skin, suppositories is a drug in a bullet shape so it can be inserted into the rectum and go through your blood, but it cannot be swallowed, drops are used for eyes, ears and noses, inhalers is directly pressed into the lung, injection are like shots that go through your skin, implants or patches are things that you put on your skin to let it slowly absorbs, buccal are tablets that you put inside of your month close to your cheek and let it dissolve in your mouth, and sublingual are the same as buccal tablets except it is put under your