BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sildenafil, Terfenadine, Edward Jenner

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

World life span much lower than in canada, but still almost double that throughout most of human history in some countries in the world, life span is actually lower than life expectancy in the stone age. Life span is an educated guess written records and archaeology i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t to (cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) that o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:862)i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t(cid:863) people make it into historical records, life e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ta(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455) is (cid:373)ostl(cid:455) the (cid:862)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)a(cid:396)(cid:455)(cid:863) people. Most improvements in life span have happened over last 150 years. Variations smoothed out as records are not precise number of 35 years is an estimate made by combining data from various sources numbers may vary depending on source used range is more appropriate. 150 years ago, life expectancy was same as that of the stone age. Special time in history to be living now fleas, always sick, worms (types of worms ) 2- tapeworm can lay 1,000,000 eggs per day, 4- roundworm max size 50 cm lay 200,000 eggs/day.