Pharmacy

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Pharmacy

• 257 Drugs are in HC
• Animal, vegetable and mineral of which approx.
  80 are plant
• How many of the 257 are in modern pharmaceutical
  guides?
• 89.5

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Drugs (cont)

• Of 27 (or 10.5) not listed, 6 to 8 are foods
  (spinach, cucumber, turnip, lentil, medlar,
  cress, and, possibly, black cumin and asphodel
• 3 are animal products eggs, castorum, horn
• 1 is water
• 11 of 27 have unidentifiable names

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Drugs from resins (cont)

• 18 resin drugs in HC of which
• 8 are indigenous to American hemisphere
• 8 in HC
• 2 not are storax and cannabis, both of which
  occur in other ancient pharmaceutical works

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Drugs from alkaloids

• Of 34 alkaloid drugs in Tyler, Brady, and
  Robbers Pharmacognosy
• 18 are American or Eastern African
• 2 are microorganisms ergot and tryptophan
• 14 remaining are found in the HC

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Conclusion Of the drugs available in the ancient
Greek environment, they knew all that drugs that
we use and know to be drugs.
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Conclusions

• Diseases have a natural cause, which the
  physician must know thoroughly so as to decide
  whether the outcome will be favorable or fatal
• Diseases are caused by a disturbance in the
  composition of the bodys consistency and is
  connected with atmospheric and climatic conditions

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Cont

• Nature tries to bring these irregularites to a
  normal state, apparently by the action of innate
  heat, which concocts the crude unmixed or
  uncompounded humors (fluids) of the body
• There are critical days at fixed dates when the
  battle between nature and disease reaches a
  crisis.

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Cont

• Nature may win, in which case the morbid matters
  in the body are either evacuated or carried off
  in an apostasis or the concoction of morbid
  elements may not take place in which case the
  patient dies
• All the physician (iatrikos) can do is to give
  nature a chance to remove by regimen, drugs, or
  surgery all that may hinder nature in her
  beneficent work.

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?? ?a? pa?? f??a????p??, p??est? ?a?
f???te????.   For where there is the love
of people, there is also the love of the art of
medicine. Hippocrates. Precepts. 6