Healing drugs the history of pharmacology
Traces the history of pharmacology, from the early days of leeches and simple plants to modern research into drugs to work against cancer.
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New York, NY
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1992
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Table of Contents:
- Simples and leeches: Drugs from plants
- Drugs from the animal kingdom
- Plants of joy and sorrow: Morphine
- Codeine
- Heroin
- Cocaine
- Bilious pills and humbub oil: Patent medicines
- Move toward science
- First laws to regulate drugs
- Magic bullet: Cure for syphilis
- Sulfa drugs: First sulfa drug
- Deadly sulfa drug
- Penicillin, the wonder drug: Discovery
- Wonder drug
- First tests on sick people
- American team
- Mail-in mold: Chloromycetin
- Aureomycin
- Streptomycin
- Terramycin
- Cyclosporine
- Banting's summer project
- Success with extract X
- More insulin
- Recombinant DNA for new drugs
- Human growth hormone
- Vaccines and viruses: First vaccinations
- Rabies vaccine
- Viruses
- Polio
- Salk's vaccine
- Sabin's vaccine
- Starting from scratch: Screening for drugs
- Animal testing
- Transgenic mice
- Computer-designed drugs
- Who says it's safe: FDA standards
- Human trials
- No-name drugs
- Orphan drugs
- Back to the future: Cancer drug in the forest
- Ancient medicine made new
- Return of diseases
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Index.