CHEM 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uroscopy, Pyrimethamine, Antiparasitic

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: Joe Schwarcz

Document Summary

Chapter 1 : drug history: the year in new drugs. Martin shkreli raised the price of an antiparasitic drug : daraprim. In prison for 7 years + fines: the media gives misconception. February 2nd 1685 : king charles ii suffered a stroke a died 4 days later (symptoms showed signs of uremia, kidney failure). Sir charles scarburgh : let 14 physicians perform bloodletting for his (cid:862)disrupted hu(cid:373)ours(cid:863) was given all kinds of medications but still went into a coma and die: doctor symbol uroscopy flask uroscopy wheel. Analyze urines : diagnosis by urine color. 147 compounds found in human urine: life expectancy. At the end of the last century, life expectancy for a man (in na) was about. Now it is overall over 80 for men and women. Maternal mortality has substantially decreased from 1850 to 1980 too. In 1940 ww2 : penicillin was discovered. Kane tanaka oldest woman in japan : 115 years old.