Overview

The chemist's shop is one of the medical institutions where the people order or buy medicines for their treatment. The state large chemist's shops as a rule have two departments. They are the hand department and prescription one. At the hand department you can buy some medicines immediately, while many drugs are ordered at the prescription department. At the chemist's shop we can buy tablets (lozenges), capsules, ointments, drops, syrups, suppositories, powders, topical solutions, creams, gels, and drugs for intramuscular and intravenous injections. All the drugs have the labels and instructions for using where the indications, contraindications, dosage, side effects, expiration date and others are indicated. The pharmacist is a healthcare professional who provides information about how the drug works and side effects.

LESSON 14

REVISION

TEST

I. Insert the missing words:

1. Our _ year _ in September and is over in June.

A. studying; began

B. academic; begins

C. academic; begin

2. Students _ different practical _ in medicine.

A. acquires; knowledge

B. get; skill

C. acquire; skills

3. Doctors _ the diagnosis and _ proper treatment to every patient.

A. does; prescribe

B. makes; write

C. make; prescribe

4. The main _ of medicine is to _ the people’s health.

A. topic; do

B. task; care of

C. reason; make

5. The therapeutist _ to the patient’s heart and lungs, palpates abdominal parts, and measures blood _.

A. works; analysis

B. listens; pressure

C. listens; cells

II. Finish the following sentences:

1. During the clinical training the students learn _.

2. WHO activities has many forms, some of them are _.

3. In Great Britain most doctors and hospitals are the part of the _.

4. In the pulmonological department there are patients with lung diseases. They suffer from _.

5. Your tongue is thickly coated and your tonsils _.

III. Choose the proper term given below to the following definitions:

1. This organization prepares more and better health workers.

2. It is a very important medical establishment where the people order or buy medicines for their treatment.

3. In this department the patients complain of their cough, high temperature, headache and others.

a) chemist’s shop; b) nucleaus; c) pulmonological department; d) cell membrane; e) cardiological department; f) skeletal system; g) gastroenterological department; h) World Health Organization; i) muscular tissue; j) endocrine system; k) polyclinic.

IV. Read and translate one of the following texts:

Text A

Galen (philosopher, physician, discoverer of blood and the cranial nerves)

This Greek's genius is more certain than his dates. He was born about 129 AD and lived until about 210 AD. During this considerable life span, Galen managed to perform studies that would long influence medicine. He is still known among other things for his discovery of blood in human arteries and for his dissection of the human cranial nerves, the nerves that supply key areas of the head, face, and upper chest. Galen was the son of Nicon, a well-to-do architect and builder in Pergamum (Asia Minor). He first studied philosophy, one of the traditional fields for a boy of his background. Nicon then had a dream in which Asclepius, the god of healing, told him to permit his son to study medicine. Galen began his medical studies in Pergamum at the age of 16-17. In search of medical knowledge, he then roamed about much of the eastern Mediterranean studying medicine in various cities including Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) and Corinth (Greece). He completed his studies at the famous medical school in Alexandria (Egypt). Galen returned to Pergamum and at age 28 was appointed physician to the school of gladiators, a post he occupied for four years and that some say made him the first sports medicine specialist. After that, a career in Rome was in the cards. There he went at age 32 and became a famous and influential physician, taking on cases that no one else could handle. He accompanied the Roman legions of Marcus Aurelius on their campaigns, and served as the personal physician to several emperors. Galen described what he saw (not always the practice of the day). He identified the majority (seven of the twelve) of the cranial nerves.

Galen did experiments such as severing a nerve and observing the effects. He is thus regarded as the founder of experimental physiology. Galen was the first to determine that arteries carried blood and not air! (For over 400 years the Alexandrian school of medicine had taught that arteries are full of air). Galen's theories about the blood circulation, however, were well off the mark and it was not until the 17th century that the great English physician William Harvey would challenge Galen's ideas in this regard. With Hippocrates who preceded him by some 500 years, Galen was preeminent among the most distinguished physicians of antiquity. He knew all of the medical knowledge of his day, gathered it together, and wrote voluminously (and well) about it. Galen summed up the medicine of antiquity.

The writings of Galen were a blessing to the ancient world. But they became a curse when, for more than a millennium, they were held to be the unassailable authority on medicine. This paralyzed the progress of medicine, something Galen would have deplored.

Text B