CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Samuel Hahnemann, Fiat Tempra, Lethal Dose

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Ariel Fenster

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Birth defect was the shortening of legs and arms, but not usually all four. It was either short arm or short legs, or all four. Tony melendez=also defect+ plays the guitar with his feet. Dr. frances kelsey= from mcgill and stopped this drug from going to the united states thinking of using this drug for. 1951 they made two categories of sale over the counter and prescription. Before 1951, prescription status was only for narcotics and cocaine. A new drug takes 10-15 years of work. It cost between 2 and 3 billion dollars. Formulate= how much material are you going to be using. Around 3 dozen drugs approved per year. Calculate the shape of a molecules, because we know the atoms. If protein structure is known, you can know whether the molecule will fit in the dna and stop it from replicating( if this is what you want). Calculations are part of the fabric of making a drug.