PHAR1101 Weeks 1–4 Exam Questions and
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How much do we know Almost nothing.
about prehistoric
medicine/pharmacology?
•Cave paintings (12000 BCE 'The Sorcerer')
List sources of evidence •Bones (7000 year old skull with hole bored in it)
for ancient medicine + •Tools
examples. •Bog bodies 'icemen' (e.g. Tollund man, 4th century
BCE, infested with parasites; Otzi, murdered)
What evidence do we No conclusive evidence.
have for prehistoric drug
use?
•Fragmented (missing millennia)
Why is recorded history
•May only refer to noble classes of society
not reliable?
•Only broad generalisations
Did ancient medicine use •No
the scientific method? •Used observation, measurement, practical skills and
What did it use? technology (not scientific method)
•Observation => questions => hypotheses => testable
What is the scientific
prediction => gather data (refine/reject) => general
method?
theories
, •Organised discovery
•Prevents repetition
List the strengths of the
•Encourages correction in face of evidence
scientific method.
•Clear audit trail
•Communicable and replicable results
What was the Hippocratic Based on 'healing power of nature', did not use
approach? scientific method,
•Human body thought to contain 4 principle humors
matching 4 elements of earth (blood, phlegm, yellow,
Describe humoral theory.
black bile)
•Illness caused by imbalance/excess of humor
•Single most enduring idea in Western medicine even
What was humoral theory's though never tested by scientific method
legacy? •Those who questioned it were denounced
•Persevered into 18th century
•We recognise 'science' around early Middle Ages
When did medicine (1200s CE)
become 'scientific'? •However scientific medicine didn't flourish until 19th
century
Acquiring of knowledge through reason rather than
Rationalism.
ideas.
We observe nature and develop laws which can be
Inductivism.
tested and confirmed.
Descriptions of things indicate that a phenomenon is
Empiricism.
testable.
What are the 3 building Rationalism, inductivism, empiricism.
blocks of the scientific
method?
German psychiatrist, called for scientific method
Johann Christian Reil.
approach to modern pharmacology.
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Terms in this set (143)
How much do we know Almost nothing.
about prehistoric
medicine/pharmacology?
•Cave paintings (12000 BCE 'The Sorcerer')
List sources of evidence •Bones (7000 year old skull with hole bored in it)
for ancient medicine + •Tools
examples. •Bog bodies 'icemen' (e.g. Tollund man, 4th century
BCE, infested with parasites; Otzi, murdered)
What evidence do we No conclusive evidence.
have for prehistoric drug
use?
•Fragmented (missing millennia)
Why is recorded history
•May only refer to noble classes of society
not reliable?
•Only broad generalisations
Did ancient medicine use •No
the scientific method? •Used observation, measurement, practical skills and
What did it use? technology (not scientific method)
•Observation => questions => hypotheses => testable
What is the scientific
prediction => gather data (refine/reject) => general
method?
theories
, •Organised discovery
•Prevents repetition
List the strengths of the
•Encourages correction in face of evidence
scientific method.
•Clear audit trail
•Communicable and replicable results
What was the Hippocratic Based on 'healing power of nature', did not use
approach? scientific method,
•Human body thought to contain 4 principle humors
matching 4 elements of earth (blood, phlegm, yellow,
Describe humoral theory.
black bile)
•Illness caused by imbalance/excess of humor
•Single most enduring idea in Western medicine even
What was humoral theory's though never tested by scientific method
legacy? •Those who questioned it were denounced
•Persevered into 18th century
•We recognise 'science' around early Middle Ages
When did medicine (1200s CE)
become 'scientific'? •However scientific medicine didn't flourish until 19th
century
Acquiring of knowledge through reason rather than
Rationalism.
ideas.
We observe nature and develop laws which can be
Inductivism.
tested and confirmed.
Descriptions of things indicate that a phenomenon is
Empiricism.
testable.
What are the 3 building Rationalism, inductivism, empiricism.
blocks of the scientific
method?
German psychiatrist, called for scientific method
Johann Christian Reil.
approach to modern pharmacology.
