CHEM 183 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dracunculiasis, William Osler, Riboflavin

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

Document Summary

David noble harpp: health and medication: 40, historical highlights: 40, fda regulations, proper medications: 20% The media gives misconceptions about the good old days , i. e. the nuremburg chronicle 1493. Portrays life in the 1400s from the perspective of a medical doctor, considered the first encyclopedia/britannica. Delivers excellent insight but also non-scientific junk, as seen in the treatment of king. Charles ii 1685 (england) by his doctor sir charles scarburgh. Scarburgh led physicians into bloodletting to rid the king of disrupted humours convulsions: Head shaved, mustard plasters containing spanish fly applied. Given substance from the crushed skull of an innocent. Given extracts of animals and herbs, and stone from the stomach of a goat. *1300s: theme of angels healing in works of art, there was no real medication available. There were no clear methods of analysis in the 14th and 15th century except to examine what came out of the human body.