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30 Cards in this Set
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Sir Charles Scarburgh |
Doctor that treated King Charles II in 1685 to rid him of convulsions. Eventually went into a coma and died. -Shaved his head -Placed mustard plasters withirritants containing the Spanish fly -Fed a substance from a crushed skull of an‘innocent man’ -Given extracts of all theherbs and animals of the kingdom -Lastly, given a stone from the stomach of agoat. |
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Misao Okawa |
Oldest women alive in the world: - 116 - from Japan |
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Marie-Louise Meilleur |
Oldest women in Canada ever: -117 - from Kamouraska, Quebec |
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Jeanne Calment |
Oldest women of all time: - 122 - Died in 1997 - Smoked until she was 100 - Ate chocolateevery day. |
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Dr. Harpps Father |
Survived the Flu Epidemic of 1911. - Recorded the death of 5 people in a diary. - 14yrs old at the time. - Kemps Balsam was the 'cure'. |
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Sir William Osler |
"Father of Medicine" - Founded McGill Faculty of Medicine in 1874. - Helped found Johns Hopkins Faculty of Medicine. |
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Sumerians |
2 200 B.C had 16 beer recipes. |
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Friedrich Serturner |
First person to extract morphine pure. |
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Hippocrates |
Focused on excluding superstition. ex. - solution for baldness - rub the fat of a snake on your head - solution for 'night blindness' - eating of liver. - solution for child birth pain - bark of willow. |
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Dioscorides |
Documented plants that hold true today for medical purposes: - Wormwood - absinthe - Saffron - diuretic |
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Paracelcus |
"A poison can be a potion, depending on the concentration" - All drugs are poisons and only the right dosage makes it stop being a poison. Blood - Air Phlegm - Water Black Bile - Earth Yellow Bile - Fire |
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Jakob Bohme |
Shoemaker in Germany " Signature of all things" - God marked everything with a sign, that gives an indication for their purpose. ex. - Walnuts look like a brain - good for brain. - Willow trees grow in marshy areas - extract is for wound inflammation and pain. |
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William Withering |
Discovered the solution to dropsy (congestive heart failure) - Foxglove |
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Pelletier and Caventou |
First purified Quinine, derived from Cinchona plant to cure Malaria. |
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Joseph Lister |
- Discovered Phenol as an antibacterial agent and sprayed it on women to survive birth better. - 1950s used for dandruff control, bad breath and deoderant. Led to thymol in mouthwash - Listerine. |
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Thomas Roddick |
Discovered antisepsis. - McGill's Roddick Gates. |
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Paul Ehrlich |
Discovered Salversan. - Remedy for syphilis. - Nobel Prize winner in 1908. |
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Dr. Frances Kelsey |
- Didn't allow Thalidomide into the USA. - It then caused birth defects. - Received her Ph.D from McGill. - Died at 101 last month. - Discovered connection between sulphonamide and diethylene glycol using rats. |
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Durham Humphrey |
Added in 1951 to the 1938 FDA Act, 2 sets of categories- OTC and Prescription Drugs. - Before, the only prescription drugs were narcotics and cocaine. |
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Julian Adams |
Helped put Velcade on the market to treat multiple myeloma. (Bone marrow cancer) - Dr. Harpp's student at McGill. |
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Henry Leroux |
1829 first extracted Salicin from willow bark. - impure substance |
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Rafaelle Piria |
Purified Salicin to make Salicylic Adic. -Side effects: Bitter, and severe stomach pain. |
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Felix Hoffman |
Chemist at Bayer that decided to add the acetyl group to make Acetyl Salicylic Acid (ASA). - Easier on the stomach. - To treat his father's arthritis pain. |
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Duisberg |
Directer of Hoffman's lab - first person to promote use of Aspirin. |
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Sir Walter Raleigh |
Evaluated darts used in the "Three Tree Poison" - Discovered curare a substance from vines of a tree. (chondodendron tomentosum) |
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Sir Charles Waterton |
Discovered that curare can be used to cause muscle relaxation without causing death. - Led to Claude Bernard's discovery. |
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Claude Bernard |
Discovered that curare blocks nerve impulses that connected the central nervous system to the muscles. - Curare can cause paralysation. - Active ingredient = Tubocurarine |
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Harold Griffith |
First to apply curare into surgery in 1942. - At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on an appendectomy. - Major breakthrough in physiology because surgeons can now perform surgeries without muscles moving. - "Preand Post-Griffith eras" |
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Dr. Harold Watkins |
Turned sulfanimide (pill form) into an elixir for the southern USA. - Drug dissolved in diethylene glycol not water or alcohol. - Interactions were fatal and led to over 100 deaths. Point: Similarly structured molecules can have dramatic differences. ***Caused 1938 FDA act for drug testing. |
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Harvey W. Wiley |
Organized "Poison Squad" - 12 individuals fed "gourmet meals" although gelatine capsules with substances were added into random foods. - Caused acute symptoms (nausea, vomiting...) Result: Many foods were taken off the market. - Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. |
