Pharmaceutical chemistry is "THE CHEMISTRY OF DRUGS" which utilizes the general laws of chemistry to study drugs. The word drug derived from the French word 'Drouge' which means a dry herb and its defined as " any substance used for he purpose of diagnosis, prevention, relief or cure of a disease in man or animal".
SOURCE OF DRUGS:
- PLANT
- SYNTHETIC
- ANIMALS
- MINERALS
- MICRO-ORGANISMS
- DRUGS PRODUCED BY GENETIC ENGINEERING Majority of the drugs used in therapeutics are synthetic, but many plant products also provide important therapeutic drugs.
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