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Pharmacology
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Study of drugs drug properties uses application and effects
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Herbal medicine
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Ppl have used drugs derived from plants to treat illness and other physical ailments
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Bark of the white willow tree contains
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Salicylic acid, the natural forerunner of the active ingredient in aspirin
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Cocaine
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First effective local anestethic
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Quinine
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Derived from the cichona used to treat malaria
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Germ theory
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Theory that microrganisms cause food spoilage
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Polio vaccine
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Injectable made from killed polio virus and an oral polio vaccine made from aweakend form of live polio vaccine
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Insulin
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Hormone that lowers blood sugar in diabetes discovered in the twentieth century
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Penicillin
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The first antibiotic
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Average life span
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Has increased by twenty % in the US in the 20th century
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Synthetic drugs
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Drugs reformulated from simpler chemicals intomore complex ones not found in nature
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Human Genome project
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Attempt to map out DNA sequence in the human Genome this info will give a better understanding of hereditary diseases and how to treat them
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Ether
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The first general anestethic
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Pharmacist education and training
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Accredited college pass state licensing perform internship and continue education
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Cost control
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A trend in healthcare to control thecost of prescription drugs by using closed formularies that substitute expensive drugs with generics
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