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c. -1300 |
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| King Mithridates creates legendary antidote to poison |
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c. -90 |
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 | Preparation of theriac, 1512
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| Dioscorides writes De materia medica |
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c. 64 |
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| Arab pharmacists become master drug-makers |
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c. 1000 |
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 | Rhazes in his laboratory at Baghdad
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| European pharmacists form guilds |
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c. 1200 |
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 | Pharmacist dispensing cough syrup
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| Paracelsus creates 'doctrine of signatures' |
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c. 1520 |
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 | Flowers resembling testicles
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| New World explorers bring novel medicines to Europe |
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c. 1550 |
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 | Treatment with guaiacum wood
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| Physic gardens established throughout Europe |
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c. 1600 |
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 | Jardin du Roi, Paris
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| Iatrochemistry becomes respectable |
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c. 1750 |
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 | Distillation laboratory, c.1720
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| Quacks enter the medical marketplace |
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c. 1780 |
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| Samuel Hahnemann invents homeopathy |
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1796 |
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| Opium Wars and addiction in China |
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c. 1840 |
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| Pharmaceutical Society established |
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1841 |
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 | Six London pharmacies, 1886
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| Rise of the pharmaceutical industry |
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c. 1860 |
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| Pure Food and Drug Act in USA |
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1906 |
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 | Use of alcoholic fumes for anaesthesia, 1513
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| 'Addiction' becomes a social evil |
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c. 1920 |
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 | Man and woman smoking, woodcut 1663
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| Banting and Best discover insulin |
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| Discovery of hormones leads to replacement therapy |
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c. 1940 |
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| Penicillin goes into mass production |
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1941 |
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| Smoking linked to lung cancer |
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1950 |
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| Development of mind-altering medicines |
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c. 1950 |
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 | Rotatory motion machine, 1828
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| Thalidomide disaster |
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c. 1961 |
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| Misuse of Drugs Act classifies controlled drugs |
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1971 |
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| Plants yield important cancer treatments |
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c. 1975 |
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| Prozac, a new generation antidepressant |
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1986 |
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