BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mouthwash, Apophenia, Aphrodisiac

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Find some facts to fit those conclusions. Only exists in labs and biological weapons. Only a very small number of treatments actually worked. A few of these are still used today. People observed the effect of the drug. Cure arrived at by reasoning - make it up. Healing often connected with superstition, magic, religion. Low dose make it into a drug. Apophenia: seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless. Pareidolia: perceiving sounds or images as something else data. Ancients did not use experiments or statistics. Once evidence is available, hard to contradict. Many harmful remedies retained because of this. Medication and cure may not be connected. May eat a plant at same time you were getting better anyway. In north america bugs not knowingly eaten. Collect data from large number of experiments. Plants produce variable amounts of active ingredients. Cure arrived at by reasoning (make it up) Universe is made up of 4 elements.