Abstract
Pharmacology, the science of drugs,is a very complex discipline. In gen-eral, it is the study of the interactionbetween chemical substances andliving matter and its consequences.In particular, it attempts to apply theknowledge and laws derived fromsuch interactions to solve specificproblems. Emerging as a product ofthis discipline is a body of funda-mental knowledge with applicationin many other sciences, primarilymedicine. For the clinician and medical science student, the scope ofpharmacology is, at first glance, lessextensive. The clinician is particu-larly concerned with chemical en-tities that provoke human illness andthose that possess selective biologi-cal activity useful for the treatmentof disease. The medical student isinterested in learning the pharmaco-logical basis of therapeutics.The first pharmacology courses in medical schools were orientedtowards a materia medica content,dealing with drugs of plant or animal origin, and pharmacy
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