BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Laxative, Listerine, Antiseptic

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

Document Summary

Information can change if only heard by ear: p. ex: eating bugs, tomatoes are poisonous. Philosophy for cure identification: 4 elements make up the universe. Balance that out with something old and wet to balance out: 4 humours (blood, phlegm, yellow and black bile, bloodletting: rebalance of blood humour. Different shape cuts to release blood to have an alleged impact on the rebalancing of the humour: p. ex: leeches, treatment is dangerous and often killed patients because exposed to infection. *the 4 humours are incorrect because based on incorrect idea (no 4 elements or 4 humours). It"s irrational and only imagination from the person that sees it: p. ex: rhino horns are a phallic symbol. It is used in chinese medicine as an aphrodisiac. No benefit to this because a horn is just like a human nail: p. ex: mercury, some people drink it as a purgative. It"s a neurotoxin so it evidently doesn"t work.