EEMB 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caffeine, Sister Chromatids, First Opium War
8 Feb 2018
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Throughout human history, botany and medicine have been closely linked. ), studied the flora of china and reputedly knew of 365 different plants and fungi that supposedly have medicinal value, including opium: the knowledge attributed to him, however, was not written down until several centuries after his death. Medicine that described the preparation and uses of over 700 drugs derived from plants: this book was the primary guide for medicine in western europe from the 1100"s through the 1600"s. In fact, the first teaching hospital where medical students practiced on patients under the supervision of experienced physicians was the academy of gondishapur in the. The fields of botany and medicine were closely allied. Until 1900, about 80% of our drugs came directly from plants. The edible meat of a walnut, which resembles the shape of a human brain, was used to treat diseases or maladies of the head.
