Toxicologyyyy
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- Ebers papyrus
- directions for collection, preparation and administration of poison recipes
- Theophrastus
- student of aristotle. included references to poisonous plants in De Historia Plantarum
- Pedanius Dioscorides
- De Materia Medica - first classification of poisons
- Mithridates of Pontus
- mithridatic mixtures - have antidotal properties
- Lex Cornelia
- first law against poisoning people
- Roman wines
- lead exposure! from the pots used in boiling
- Catherine de Medici
- 1st type of record keeping (dose-response). tested poison efficacy on poor and sick
- Paracelsus
- *father of toxicology most impt person
- Matthew Orfila
- 1st forensic scientist used autopsy material to provide legal proof of poisoning
- neoplasm
- an independent growth of tissue with abnormal regulation of gene expression (tumor)
- cancer
- a subset of neoplasms
- tumor
- a space occupying lesion that may or may not be neoplastic (carcinogenic)
- metastases
- secondary growths of cells from the primary neoplasm
- carcinogen
- causes neoplasia
- carcinoma
- malignant tumor arising in epithelium most common form of cancer spreads via lymphatic system
- sarcoma
- malignant tumor arising in muscle or connective tissue spreads via circulation