ENVS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pedanius Dioscorides, Scribonius Largus, Georg Ebers

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: ENVS 3040
• Professor: Rebecca Hallett

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By the end of this unit, you should be able to: Discuss the different methods by which medically important drugs are identified, tested, improved, and synthesized. Explain the modes of action of several naturally-derived medications. Relate the mode of action of these compounds to both the therapeutic limitations of these drugs and to the side effects that they produce. Discuss the development of environmentally sustainable production of naturally-derived medicines. In this section, we will examine the development of medicine, from its origins in herbal medicine, as well as the linkages and similarities between animal uses of non-food plants and their medicinal uses by humans. By the end of this section, you should be able to: Describe the use of non-food plants by animals and comment on the evidence indicating whether these are medical practices or genetically determined biological adaptations. Describe the major figures and their contributions to the development of medicine from greek and.