BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Patent Medicine, Salicin, Coal Tar

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

Document Summary

Throughout most of recorded history you could expect to live to be about 30-35 years old. Improvements in the last 150 years have drastically increased life expectancy (connecting scientific principles to human health; experiments to determine why people die and get sick) In 1900 everyone was sick all of the time: Life expectancy was 44 years: main causes of death were disease, pneumonia, tuberculosis,influenza, this lasted until the 1950"s. In 2004 life expectancy was 82 years: statistically you won"t die from disease, your body will wear out, heart disease, cancer, stroke, lower respiratory infection, traffic accidents, diabetes. > 150 years ago disease was a constant quality. Fungal infection was with people all of the time. Today you get an infection, go to the doctor, get treatment. Everything was rotten and eating spoiled food could not be avoided. Only exists in the developed world for the past 100 years.