Discoveries in pharmacological sciences
By: Popat N. Patil
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 778
ISBN-13: 9789814355070
Subjects: Drug Discovery; Pharmacology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolution, human migration, diseases, and treatments; title: Ancient medicine and the discovery of natural therapeutic agents; title: History of anesthesia, acupuncture, hypnosis, mesmerism, anesthetics, and hypnotics; title: Emergence of modern medicine; title: Contributions of anatomists and physiologists to the neurofunctional outline of the nervous system; title: Pharmacology comes of age; title: Discovery of receptors and related events : a century of receptors and transduction; title: Development of drug laws and quantitation; title: Drug discoveries; title: Growth of the drug industry, research institutions, and universities.