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Re: Help me cure this creative block.
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I would do some work on the deep islamic roots of pharmacology.  There are some great illustrated manuscripts with beautiful and fanciful illustrations, but also some of the first botanical taxonomies were established in the arab countries based upon plants' medicinal uses.  Here is one guy to look up...Abu Hanifah Ahmad ibn Dawud Dinawari (828 – 896).  

The whole field of ethnobotany is rich with eye openers, from traditional chinese medicine to ayurveda, both of which go back centuries or millenia, but are very well developed in contemporary life.  Also there are fascinating and changing traditions in south america, the caribbean, etc. 

One of my favorite visuals in this regard is a film I saw a long time ago of a man undergoing brain surgery with nothing but acupuncture as as an anaesthetic.  He gets up after they sew him up, and shakes the doctors hands and walks out.  Commie propaganda?  Dunno, don't see it on youtube.


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On Feb 11, 2010, at 6:24 PM, David Smith wrote:

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> Mechanisms of action of common drugs - visualizations of the biochemical
> pathways, without being just a bunch of movie clips
> 
> Dose dependence of toxicity - both that there can be too much of a good
> thing and that just because something is toxic at one dose doesn't mean it
> is toxic at a lower dose.  Digitalis is one example, but there are plenty of
> others.
> 
> My wife, a physician, says I'm confusing pharmacology with pharmacy.  She
> says she would expect to see stuff about transition from folk medicine to
> biochemical medicine and how we got pharmacists as a separate profession
> since physicians used to compound and prescribe medicine themselves.
> 
> Dave Smith
> 
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Mike Levad <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> Hey Everybody,
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>> If you went into a museum about the history and practice of pharmacy what
>> would you expect to see and what would you want to see?  What would you
>> want
>> to do.  Samples will not be provided, sorry.
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>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mike
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