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INTRODUCTION TO HYPERTENSION: AN OVERVIEW TO THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TO THE HEART

An Overview Hey readers!! I am Sarang More an Edublogger and student. So in today’s video we are going to discuss about the PATHOPHYSIOLOGY of Hypertension. But, but, but before jumping into the actual concept it is very essential to know about the organ or the system in which the actual hypertension will be causing i.e. in heart obviously but more specifically in the arteries or the blood vessels. So in this article we are going to study about the CARDIOLOGY. Coming to the heart, it is relatively small, conical in shape and roughly as the size of one’s fist (not always possible). It is 12cm in length and 9cm in breath and 6cm thick. It weighs 250gm in adult females while in males it weighs about 300gm . The heart rest on diaphragm, near the midline of thoracic cavity known as mediastinum. Actually, the heart is slightly tilted towards left so it is said that heart is positioned to the left side. One more astounding fact about the heart is it is placed inverted in position,

Introduction to Pharmacopoeias

  Recap – The Pharmacopoeia is a official book issued under authority of government which usually contains list and formulae of drugs with their preparations and properties and the standards to be assigned to be pure. The first Indian Pharmacopoeia (I.P.) was published in the year 1955. The chronology of I.P.   a.    First edition in 1955 b.    Second edition in 1966 c.    Third edition in 1985 d. Fourth edition in 1996 e. Fifth edition in 2007 f.   .     Sixth edition in 2010 g. Seventh edition in 2014 To be continued…… ·      List of common Pharmacopoeia and other standard reference books used in India :- 1   Indian Pharmacopoeia 2. British Pharmacopoeia 3. International Pharmacopoeia 4. United states Pharmacopoeia 5. Japanese Pharmacopoeia 6. Chinese Pharmacopoei 7 . Martindale extra Pharmacopoeia 8. National formulary 9. Indian Pharmaceutical codex (IPC) 10.                United states dispensary There are huge number of off

Historical background and development of profession of pharmacy in India

   Historical background and development of profession of pharmacy Part I Hey guys, welcome back to the pharmamilestone blog. I am going to post the blogs that are going to help you in terms of your academics. I have done by simplifying the most complex books into simple one. Hope you will like it. Q. What is pharmaceutics ? It is a pharmaceutical science which comprises a drug to its developmental state. It mainly encloses discovery, collection, identification, nomenclature, extraction and developing in required dosage form with least serious toxicological problems and advantageous pharmacological effects. Simply pharmaceutics means conversion of raw drug into medicine by implementing various techniques and machinery. It is concerned with technological and scientific aspects of design and manufacture of drugs.  ·      History of pharmacy profession in India in relation to pharma education :- India was self- sufficient country in all aspects in British and pre-British period. The