Drug discovery : a history /

Drug discovery : a history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sneader, Walter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2005]
Subjects:
Pharmacy > History.
Drug development > History.
Pharmacognosy > History.
Pharmaceutical Preparations > history.
Table of Contents:
  • The prehistoric period
  • Pre-Hellenic civilisations
  • Greece and Rome
  • The Arab world
  • Herbals
  • Chemical medicines
  • Systematic medicine
  • Alkaloids
  • Non-alkaloidal plant products
  • Plant product analogues and compounds derived from them
  • The origins of hormone therapy
  • Neurohormones
  • Peptide hormones
  • Sex hormones
  • Adrenal cortex hormones
  • Prostaglandins
  • Hormone analogues
  • Vitamins
  • Antimetabolites
  • Blood and biological products
  • Antibiotics
  • Antibiotic analogues
  • Pharmacodynamic agents from micro-organisms
  • Analogues of pharmacodynamic agents from fungi
  • The first synthetic drugs and their analogues
  • Drugs originating from the screening of dyes
  • Drugs originating from the screening of organic chemicals
  • Drugs discovered through serendipitous observations involving humans
  • Drugs discovered through serendipity in the laboratory.