Download or read book Drug Etymology written by George Blake and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is pharmacology getting you down? Is the list of drugs or medications you must learn daunting? Are the names obscure and obtuse?To learn medications you need to learn their names. If the names make no sense, looking as if someone dumped scrabble pieces onto the table, then there is no "hook" for you to remember them.The author breaks down the generic name and a trade name, for over 400 medications, showing you where the name came from. This will help give you a hook to learn the medications and will give you some interesting facts about them.The author spent five years compiling this book. He did it to learn medication names while attending paramedic school and nursing school which are two of his six degrees: He has three associates degrees, a bachelors, a masters degree, and a professional degree.The authors says some of the name meanings were easy to find but the majority took research into the medications' researchers, history, discovery, design, synthesis, organic chemistry, patents, developers, or marketers. Finding this information helped to change those mysterious and obtuse names into ones that could be understood and hooked into memory.