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Drug discovery : a history / Walter Sneader.

By: Sneader, Walter.
Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley, c2005Description: viii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0471899798 (hbk.).Subject(s): Pharmacy -- History | Drug development -- History | Pharmacognosy -- History | Pharmaceutical Preparations -- historyDDC classification: 615.1990
Contents:
Preface.- Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction. - Part 1: Legacy Of The Past. - Chapter 2. The Prehistoric Period. - Chapter 3. Pre-Hellenic Civilisations. - Chapter 4. Greece and Rome. - Chapter 5. The Arab World. - Chapter 6. Herbals. - Chapter 7. Chemical Medicines. - Chapter 8. Systematic Medicine. - Part 2: Drugs From Naturally Occurring Prototypes. - Section I: Pytochemicals. - Chapter 9. Alkaloids. - Chapter 10. Non-Alkaloid Plant Products. - Chapter 11. Plant Product Analogues and Compounds Derived From Them. - Section II: Biochemicals. - Chapter 12. The Origins Of Hormone Therapy. - Chapter 13. Neurohormones. - Chapter 14. Peptide Hormones. - Chapter 15. Sex Hormones. - Chapter 16. Adrenal Cortex Hormones. - Chapter 17. Prostaglandins. - Chapter 18. Hormone Analogues. - Chapter 19. Vitamins. - Chapter 20. Antimetabolites. - Chapter 21. Blood and Biological Products. - Section III: Drugs from micro-organism. - Chapter 22. Antibiotics. - Chapter 23. Antibiotic Analogues. - Chapter 24. Pharmacodynamic Agents from Microorganisms. - Chapter 25. Analogues of Pharmacodynamic Agents from Fungi. - Part 3: Synthetic Drugs - Chapter 26. The First Synthetic Drugs and Their Analogues. - Chapter 27. Drugs Originating from the Screening of Dyes. - Chapter 28. Drugs Originating from the Screening of Organic Chemicals. - Chapter 29. Drugs Discovered through Serendipitous Observations Involving Humans. - Chapter 30. Drugs Discovered through Serendipity in the Laboratory. - Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks. - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface.- Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction. - Part 1: Legacy Of The Past. - Chapter 2. The Prehistoric Period. - Chapter 3. Pre-Hellenic Civilisations. - Chapter 4. Greece and Rome. - Chapter 5. The Arab World. - Chapter 6. Herbals. - Chapter 7. Chemical Medicines. - Chapter 8. Systematic Medicine. - Part 2: Drugs From Naturally Occurring Prototypes. - Section I: Pytochemicals. - Chapter 9. Alkaloids. - Chapter 10. Non-Alkaloid Plant Products. - Chapter 11. Plant Product Analogues and Compounds Derived From Them. - Section II: Biochemicals. - Chapter 12. The Origins Of Hormone Therapy. - Chapter 13. Neurohormones. - Chapter 14. Peptide Hormones. - Chapter 15. Sex Hormones. - Chapter 16. Adrenal Cortex Hormones. - Chapter 17. Prostaglandins. - Chapter 18. Hormone Analogues. - Chapter 19. Vitamins. - Chapter 20. Antimetabolites. - Chapter 21. Blood and Biological Products. - Section III: Drugs from micro-organism. - Chapter 22. Antibiotics. - Chapter 23. Antibiotic Analogues. - Chapter 24. Pharmacodynamic Agents from Microorganisms. - Chapter 25. Analogues of Pharmacodynamic Agents from Fungi. - Part 3: Synthetic Drugs - Chapter 26. The First Synthetic Drugs and Their Analogues. - Chapter 27. Drugs Originating from the Screening of Dyes. - Chapter 28. Drugs Originating from the Screening of Organic Chemicals. - Chapter 29. Drugs Discovered through Serendipitous Observations Involving Humans. - Chapter 30. Drugs Discovered through Serendipity in the Laboratory. - Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks. - Index.

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