VPT 311: General and Systemic Veterinary Pharmacology (2+1)

MEDIAEVAL MEDICINE

• Paracelsus introduced inorganic chemicals like mercury into medicine. He called this ‘Iatro Chemistry’ or medicinal chemistry.
• He induced practitioners to use laudanum (an opium preparation), sulphur, iron, copper sulphate, potassium sulphate, mercurials and tinctures and fluid extract of various plants for treatment of diseases.