Early Pharmacopeia: Medical Practices in Ancient Civilizations
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- If we are going to tell the story of medicine, we had better start at the beginning, which means we need to go all the way back to the start of recorded history. Ever since we've been writing things down, we've been documenting our attempts at treating illness. Pretty much all of the techniques we employed millennia ago are laughable by today's standards, but in a pre-scientific society, superstitions held sway. Let's take a look at some of the figures who are able to make the first significant strides towards legitimate medicine.
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Gosh, I feel bad for all those people who fell into the error category through all of history's times of trial and error. Thanks to their sacrifice we have some truly effective medicines today.
I’m a Pharmacist and extremely impressed by your presentation. Excellent work! 👍👏👏👏👏
"there is no better place to start a story then the start"
My wife tells me what the final outcome was. I have no idea what she is talking about.
explain star wars
Than the start
*beginning
I`m a pharmacy student and I have really missed the historical parts of our trade. Great videos!
Not even 10m and you just covered like a semester's worth of my high school history class, in about as much detail as needed to pass XD good work can't wait for more
2020 BC: We study ointment, infusions and concoctions, made of different herbs like poppies, peppermint or thyme to cure different diseases
2020 AD: We study urine eye drops to cure 5G
Thanks for the tip on using urine eye drops to cure 5G. I've been using fish-tank cleaner.
@@DavidKutzler me personally I have been using the mercury from thermometers... You have to break them open, but make sure you don't get any broken glass in it cause that could be dangerous.
@@xKapnKrunch Good idea. We wouldn't have to go to these lengths if the FDA hadn't taken Mercurochrome off the market in 1998. As kids in the 1950s, we would paint the stuff on our playground "war wounds" to make them look more gruesome.
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@@DavidKutzler it's all big pharma reptilian conspiracy to not let people drink mercury, and buy their Jewish made Aspirins instead!111!!!!1
The history of drugs inspired me to learn deeper and deeper, even during my free times I prefer watching your tutorials.Thank you Professor Dave.
First time I'm early for class
I know it's not a history channel, but I wanted to know about Sushruta, also known as the first surgeon. If you have time please consider making a video related to him
th-cam.com/video/eDZ3YpZB5lA/w-d-xo.html I hope this helps :)
I really like this series of videos I liked that timeline you made on the bottom that shows Mankind's Evolution Through the Ages your videos are very good and put forth in a very understanding way to the Layman thank you very much for your Channel
Great stuff, Professor Dave! The part about Galen was very enlightening. I'd always heard the term, but never knew its etymology.
And in one quick swoop the Greek origins are combined with Latinized names. The way the Romans took over from the Greek is how modern medicine became the dread of those learning Latin and old-Greek, mixing and mashing words without any respect for grammar or origins. Even outside of the field, names like Homeros are practically always designated by the Latinized "Homerus". "Theseus" is fine, as long as you don't split it into "These-us".
Apart from that, great video!
Hermes was syncretized with Mercury and Djehuty/Thoth considered the god of medicine and herbs/drugs and Asclepius was the student if Hermes and the syncretization Hermes Trismagestus. This syncretization is not modern. This is why generally doctors use the Caduceus and paramedics/nurses use the Rod of Asclepius.
Really comprehensive yet concise
Great presentation
With all due respect you forgot Dioscorides
His Materia Medica was the primary source of pharmacy for physicians for over 1600 years
Thank you for this well-made and fascinating video.
That guy from the thumbnail, sitting at his desk writing away while jars of blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile sit next to him... Wow. I didn't know 4CHAN had been around for so long.
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A perfect addition to our homeschool unit. Thanks so much!
Please upload more and more about pharmacy
When u gonna upload the next video? I'm excited...
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That was fun, I love educational yet entertaining videos like this
Pharmakon has three meanings.
1. Poison
2. Drug
3. Scapegoat
Is there a scan of Papyrus Ebers available for free? I did try to search for a PDF but I only find a few pages with a vague translation.
Professor Dave even though I also liked this video a lot but as one of these comments mentioned you should have also told about surgeons from india. I very well understood that these ancient civilizations had very less contributions as compared to modern scientific contributions but still I think you should have mentioned about Ayurveda or about medicine in indus river valley civilization.
Good points. But he's really trying to stick to pharmaceuticals and drugs and not just generalized medicine. Being the artist that's helping him out, I've found while sourcing the imagery that while China and India contributed a LOT...specific to drugs there isn't a lot too say other than particular herbs.
@@cyrenedomogalla5127 Brother genuinely love if you provided some citations.
@@shivammishra1720 ?? On what?
@@cyrenedomogalla4023 You said while sourcing the imagery you found china and india contributed a lot specific to drugs there isn't a lot too say other than particular herbs. About this line
@@cyrenedomogalla5127 Thanks for providing citation. If this is really important to you and not just a play at arguing on the internet, I encourage you to do your own research. Remember that Prof Dave is pretty adamant about talking about things that are facts, not beliefs. Yes i am not another keyboard warrior self obsessed with his civilization. I really want to learn science in particular particle physics and cosmology but i am also interested in medicine and psychology and history.
Super well done series!! Thanks professor Dave explains!!!
Thanks, professor Dave. Very cool.
What about Shushruta, the Father of Surgery and India's ancient Ayurveda? No mention of these -_-
Surgery is not drugs. It's true China and India contributed a lot of medicinal practices. But specifically in regards to Drugs, not as much to talk about that's substantial. In 9min, he needs to focus.
Because even though it's popular in India and Pakistan Ayurveda is widely considered a psuedoscience and didn't contribute to the modern pharmacology.
I sometimes wonder if the reason the symbol of the snake is chosen is that biologically active compounds in snakes may have been used as medicinal compounds
Exellent Tutorials.
Your videos are great , good job👏
What’s the difference between ointments, salves and the other topicals?
Great job
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Sir please can you list some reliable sources of information on the internet, particularly about science
Just watch Daves videos. As the song says at the beginning of the video.... _"He knows a lot about the science stuff, Professor Dave Explains"_
I just thought while looking at the Materia Medica, that maybe THAT is what the Voyanich manuscript was actually supposed to be. I think it is just the pictures of the plants. But now that we are getting it translated or so I hear that should be up to the test.
The Voyanich Manuscript probably is a sort of alchemical materia medica judging by the images. Many times such things were also kept secret because of the overlap with the so called "occult" and the making of drugs, poisons, abortifacients and hallucinagens, sometimes used as entheogens. These were not liked by the church.
Thanks, Professor! You present well, and you always pick fun topics to learn about. Keep up the good work!
Hello professor dave, thanks for the very comprehensive and compact explanation, but I'm just wondering, how do you research all of this? I've been researching the history of pharmacy and can't seem to piece out all the bits of information. Are u using a book, or other historical forms?
Love the vidz but could do
Without the pre and post jingle
Interesting topic
Lovely
This is very interesting.
As Eddie Izzard says, "It's Herbs because there's a f#£&ing H in it"
Otherwise flawless!
erb
It’s URB
Yet he doesn't always pronounce his "R"s. Curious indeed lol
Where'd i get that timeline of all prehistoric time. ?
I had to be reminded of the difference between Hypocrite and Hippocrates.
Interesting. Phlegm. Yellow bile. Black bile. It's hard for me to "produce" and spit phlegm. 🧐
Too be fair: The American Healthcare System accidentally symbolizing medicine as a mere commodity is pretty fitting.
When we get to Flemming......are we going to see some PEN-G synthesis?
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Check my mathematics playlist.
@@ProfessorDaveExplains is that enough for high school maths
Yes more than enough.
How do you do your research? I’d like to take a shot at my own research
In lieu of an answer from Dave, I would suggest starting with Google Scholar.
He has literally been a college chemistry teacher for one thing. But it's a good question, he has talked before on Aron Ra's channel that he studies to learn new thing and increase his knowledge in wider subjects than just chemistry and science. But as far as science goes he has literally taught in college.
If I was a medical doctor, even as an atheist, I would absolutely swear by Apollo the Physician, Asclepius, Hygieia, Panacea and all the gods and goddesses as my witnesses...
Prolonging the snakes bite
2:45 God Dhanvantari (Ancient Indian medicine known as Ayurveda)
You said they knew about morphine. Morphine was invented or exteacted or whatever in 1803. Opium was around back then though.
Yes, and the main active ingredient and most potent of the various alkaloids in opium is morphine. That component wasn't isolated back then, but is obviously contained in the poppy sap.
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Arabic translation please
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Two more tardies and you’re out
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No one? Ok, then I've to do it myself:
BEGONE THOTH!
oh wait, where did all the science go
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for westerners, its like that east never existed on the face of the earth :))
Western pharmacology surpassed traditional eastern medicines such as Ayurveda and Chinese Traditional Medicine, largely due to the academic interpollination of all the cultures of the Middle East, Ancient, Egypt, Greece and Rome. This is about the development of pharmacology which expanded past western herbal tradition when the easy was still holding onto herbal cures.
So you just easily and conveniently ignore ancient India and the widely practiced Ayurveda. The significance of ancient indian culture to medicine has been immense and its unacceptable that it was left out. Sushruta and his principles are a benchmark in the history of medicine
He is describing from the start, step by step
Don't be mad over it..
@@kulsumsheikh814 and he completely missed one huge step from the start and thats what I'm pointing out
I think he talked that influence of Greeks on western medicine was more and he surely put dhanvantari photo at 2:45. I think he will cover it in next video you will be aware that Sumerian and Egyptians were before Indus river valley you can argue on Greek because Indus river valley was before Greeks so he should have shown Indus river valley before Greeks.
He's not ignoring it. It's just that those things are not specific to drugs. That's more generalized medicine and doesnt fit in this series.
Great idea 💡! Feel free to go ahead and make a video about all these with Ayurveda included. You can send the link here once you’ve completed.
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