PHAR100 MIDTERM Exam Questions
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What is a drug? - any substance received by the body for nonnutritional purposes that influences biological function
What is pharmacology? - study of drugs, their uses, effects, and
methods of action
What was the influence of An...
What is lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and why is it important? - ✔✔-
synthesized by Albert Hofmann
-similar in chemical structure to ergotamine and ergonovine
-discovery of psychedelic effects supported the idea that some mental
illnesses were due to potent substances in the brain
What is nitrous oxide and how was it first used? - ✔✔-anaesthetic that
lessens pain perception
-discovered in the 1840s by Wells, a dentist who watched a performance
where a guy took laughing gas, got in a fight, and didn't notice he gashed
his leg
-Wells tried it in dental procedures
What is ether and how was it first used? - ✔✔-1818 Faraday pointed out its
properties similar to nitrous oxide
-Morton was interested in anaesthesia and practiced with ether on himself
and animals
-he asked the professor of surgery to try it and they did
-first operation under ether was at the Massachusetts General Hospital
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