NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
PHARMACOGNOSY
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Question
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Name of the scientist who gave the term Pharamcognosy
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Seydler
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Charak
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Sushrut
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Hippocrates
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The term “pharmacognosy” was coined by Anotheus Seydler, a German botanist, from the two Greek words “pharmakon", meaning drug or medicine, and “gnosis", meaning knowledge.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “pharmacognosy” was used for the first time by the German physician Johann Adam Schmidt (1759-1809) in their published book “Grundriss der Materia Medica” in 1811 and by Anotheus Seydler in 1815 in a work titled Analecta Pharmacognostica.
Detailed explanation-3: -The word ‘Pharmacognosy’ was first coined by a German scientist “C. A. Seydler” in 1815 in the title of his work “Analecta Pharmacognostica”.
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