Name: Mariell G.

Garcesa
Year and Section: 2 BSN B
Course Subject: Pharmacology

Activity 1: Draw a timeline

1796
TIMELINE SMALLPOX
English Doctor Edward Jenner
1827
MORPHINE
German Pharmacist Friedrich
Sertuner
1893
PARACETAMOL
Josef Von Mering
1899
ASPIRIN
Chemist Felix Hoffman

1900s
CHEMOTHERAPY DRUGS
German Chemist Paul Ehrlich

INSULIN
1922
Sir Frederick G. Banting
Charles Herbert Best
1928
John James Rickard Mackleod
PENICILLIN
Alexander Fleming
1951
CHLOPROMAZIN

Paul Carpentier

1955
POLIO VACCINE
Doctor Jonas Salk
1961
MEFENAMIC ACID
Claude Winder from Parke-Davis
Activity 2: Define the words/phrase

1. Pharmacology Branch of medicine concerned with the

uses, effects, and modes of action of
drugs
2. Drugs Any substance which, when taken into
the body, alters the body's function either
physically and/or psychologically
3. Therapeutics The branch of medicine concerned with
the treatment of disease and the action of
remedial agents
4. Pharmacotherapy medical treatment by means of drug
5. Medication a medicine, or a set
of medicines or drugs, used
to improve a particular condition or illness
6. Biologics a product that is produced from living
organisms or contain components of
living organism
7. Natural health products Naturally-occurring substances that can
be used to maintain or restore
health. They can be vitamins, minerals,
herbs or other plants, amino acids (the
individual building blocks of protein), or
parts of these substances.
8. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the term for medical
therapies products and practices that are not part of
standard medical care
9. Clinical trials are a type of research that studies new
tests and treatments and evaluates their
effects on human health outcomes
10. Pre-clinical trials study to test a drug, a procedure, or
another medical treatment in animals
 Activity 3: Identify the names of the drug (chemical name, generic
name, official name and trade name) and classify (body system they
affect, therapeutic use, physiologic action, illegal drugs, prescription
or non-prescription).

Drugs Chemical Name Generic Official Trade

Name Name Name
(4-
carbamoylmethylphenoxy)methy Atenolol Tenormi RiteMe
l group at the 1-position and an n d
N-isopropyl substituent
Ni
2-Acetoxybenzoic acid
Aspirin Aspilets Aspilets

Vitex negundo L. Vitex Plemex Plemex

negund Forte
o L.
Lagundi
Leaf
Drugs Body system Therapeutic use Physiologic Illegal drugs Prescription
they affect action or Non-
prescription
Cardiovascular treat high blood works by Recreational Prescription
ATENOLOL system pressure and blocking drugs
irregular the action o
heartbeats f certain
natural
chemicals
in your
body, such
as
epinephrine
, on the
heart and
blood
vessels
ASPIRIN Cardiovascular works to prevent Decreased Recreational Prescription
system the platelets in production drugs
your blood from of
clumping and prostagland
clotting in ins and
your arteries TXA2.
LAGUNDI Respiratory Stops coughing, Expectorant, Recreational Non
system relieve asthma, analgesic drugs prescriptions
facilitate the function, and
Antitussive
discharge of
phlegm and to
lower fever due
to colds or flu.
Activity 4: Look for a Drug Literature
sample within your vicinity