Title Drug discovery : a history / Walter Sneader.

Imprint

Chichester ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2005.

Location	Call Number	Status
Jacobs Reading Room	RS61 .S43 2005	REFERENCE ONLY

Description	viii, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The prehistoric period -- Pre-Hellenic civilisations -- Greece and Rome -- The Arab world -- Herbals -- Chemical medicines -- Systematic medicine -- Alkaloids -- Non-alkaloidal plant products -- Plant product analogues and compounds derived from them -- The origins of hormone therapy -- Neurohormones -- Peptide hormones -- Sex hormones -- Adrenal cortex hormones -- Prostaglandins -- Hormone analogues -- Vitamins -- Antimetabolites -- Blood and biological products -- Antibiotics -- Antibiotic analogues -- Pharmacodynamic agents from micro-organisms -- Analogues of pharmacodynamic agents from fungi -- The first synthetic drugs and their analogues -- Drugs originating from the screening of dyes -- Drugs originating from the screening of organic chemicals -- Drugs discovered through serendipitous observations involving humans -- Drugs discovered through serendipity in the laboratory.
Subject(s)	Pharmacy -- History.
	Drug development -- History.
	Pharmacognosy -- History.