Discoveries in pharmacological sciences /
Popat N. Patil.
- Singapore : World Scientific, 2012.
- xiv, 778 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Evolution, human migration, diseases, and treatments -- Ancient medicine and the discovery of natural therapeutic agents -- History of anesthesia, acupuncture, hypnosis, mesmerism, anesthetics, and hypnotics -- Emergence of modern medicine -- Contributions of anatomists and physiologists to the neurofunctional outline of the nervous system -- Pharmacology comes of age -- Discovery of receptors and related events : a century of receptors and transduction -- Development of drug laws and quantitation -- Drug discoveries -- Growth of the drug industry, research institutions, and universities.