PSYC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Papaver Somniferum, Ether Dome, Local Anesthetic
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Open one or more holes in person"s skull: thought that bad spirits causing pain/disease would escape. But practiced in many places in the world. Mixture of roots, leaves, flowers, fruits/seeds, gums/oil/resin, animal parts/products, mineral substances. Opium milk poppy analgesic (drank, boiled, made into a substance) We currently still use derivatives of those substances. Hard to figure out the dose for morphine: Morphine reason for the creation of pharmaceutical companies. Used to be able to watch surgeries. Until 1846, no anaesthetic: hold people down/give alcohol. 1846, massachusetts general hospital ( ether dome ): first administration of ether. Puts people to sleep without killing them. Stops movement and amnesia of pain occurring. Opiates: first opium, then morphin, and now a lot more. All opioids have the same pharmacodynamics but different pharmacokinetics. What the drug does to the body. What to body does to the drug. In the nose then dissolves in mucus and cheek.
