Category: Pharmacology

PHARMACOLOGY : Pharmacology is the science dealing with drugs.(Greek: Pharmacon—drug; logos—discourse in). It deals with interaction of exogenously administered chemical molecules (drugs) with living systems, and any chemical substance which can produce a biological response is a ‘drug.’ It is divided into several branches like pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacotherapeutics, chemotherapy and toxicology etc. Pharmacokinetics :  (body […]

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HISTORY OF PHARMACALOGY   Oswald Schmiedberg – Father of Pharmacology Col. Ramnath Chopra – Father of Indian Pharmacology Sir James Black – Father of Modern Pharmacology Clark – Gave Theory of drug action based on occupation of receptors by specific drugs. Otto Loewi – Direct proof of transmission across nerve junctions to be mediated by […]

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