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Drug Histories
by The Drug History Podcast
Looking at the use and development of drugs before 1900
Episodes
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The fascinating story behind the discovery of Streptomycin
Streptomycin has been referred to as the “wonder drug” due to the transformative effect it had on the prognosis of patients suffering from tuberculosis when it was first discovered. It spurred the discovery and invention of antibiotic drugs within the category know as aminoglycosides. Over the...
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Traditional Drug Therapy among indegenous American Peoples
Welcome to the Drug History Podcast, Series 1, Episode 13. In our last episode we looked at Drug Therapy in Traditional Western Samoan and Polynesian Medicine. In this episode we travel to North and South America and look at the drugs and medicines used by the indigenous populations in these...
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Drug Therapy in Traditional Western Samoan and Polynesian Medicine
In our last episode we looked at Traditional Australian Aboriginal Drug Therapy. In this episode we move to Polynesia and look at Drug Therapy in Traditional Western Samoan and Polynesian Medicine. We start off with an article by Seeseei and others, published on the 9th of November 2021, in the...
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Traditional Australian Aboriginal Drug Therapy
In our last episode we looked at Drug Use in the Renaissance, which brought us to the cusp of the modern age of medicine. So far, in our podcasts, we have looked at the Far East, the Middle East and Europe. In the next few episodes, we plan to cover Australia and the South Pacific Islands… The…
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Drug Use in the Renaissance
In our last episode we looked at Drug Use in the Middle Ages. In this episode we look at Drug use in the Renaissance, the period from the 15th to the 18th centuries[1]. At this point it is useful to mark an important transition of relevance to this podcast. In the first two episodes we discussed...
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Drug Use in the Middle Ages
In our last episode we looked at Drug Use in Hellenistic and Roman Times. In this episode we look at drug use in the Middle Ages. For clarifications purposes, the Medieval period started with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD and lasted until the 15th century. As we saw in our discussion of...
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Drug Use in Hellenistic and Roman Times
In this episode we look at Drug Use in Hellenistic and Roman times. We are specifically interested in Greece after the demise of Alexander the Great in 321 BC, up to the period of Imperial Rome, which ended around 476 AD. As we discussed in our episode on Drug Use in Ancient Greece, by the time…...
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Drug Use in Ancient Greece
In this episode we look at Drug Use in Ancient Greece a period stretching from about 800BC to 323BC. We start off with a brief overview of key developments in medicine in this period; before moving to a discussion of drug use in both therapeutic and non-medical settings. This follows our review…
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Drug Therapy in Ancient Egypt
In this episode we are reviewing drug therapy in ancient Egypt, between 3,300 BC and 525 BC. We draw our information from publications in the Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, The US National Library of Medicine[1], The World History Encyclopaedia and other sources. This follows our…
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The Compelling Story of Drugs and the Bible, from the Perspective of the Authors
In this episode we get an overview the compelling story of drugs and the Bible, from the perspective of the authors. The Bible is a collection of sixty-six books, some, or all of which are regarded as sacred text by followers of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rastafarianism, Samaritanism, and…
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Looking at the use and development of drugs before 1900
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