BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tuberculosis, Antibiotics, Pethidine

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

Document Summary

1: clean drinking water, vaccination, antibiotics, improved sanitation disease. Open sewers back then would lead to diseases and bacteria. Separating the public from human sewage (closed) removed the chance of getting any: clean drinking water. Often times people would get water from streams. Nowadays, we have supply to safe clean water. Water in nature is not safe to drink. Streams and rivers may carry bacteria that can be harmful when digested. A worm that gets inside the digestive system and lays eggs. The worm gets out directly from the body secreting a chemical that intensifies pain. Simply by draining water through some cloth is enough to get rid of most of the water fleas several filtration process to keep the water clean. Acts as a preservative and goes through: vaccination. North america drug market (2009: for prescription drugs - $ 300 billion, over the counter drugs - $ 25 billion. Only a few number of treatments worked.