Pharmaceutical
analysis is an important step not only for ‘Drug Development’ but also
‘Diagnosis’ that involves evaluating the human tissues for imbalanced orundesired bio-chemicals. The word ‘Pharmaceutical’ is derived from a Greek word
pharmakon meaning ‘drug’, ‘medicine’ or ‘remedy’.
Search of
drug to find cure is as old as the disease itself. Advent of microscope that
led to the identification of micro-organisms and germ theory of Louis Pasteur
in eighteenth century accelerated the research and development to find remedies
for various human inflictions. Germ theory for the first time postulated thatvarious human diseases are caused by specific micro-organisms. This theory
evolved, outmoded contemporary theories related to human diseases and gained
global acceptance in the middle of 1800. Since then it remains a guiding theory
that presides over the practice of modern medicine. Pasteur’s remarkable
contribution as a Physicist, a Chemist as well as a Biologist and
Micro-biologist makes him father of the new ways of drug development. His work
in stereochemistry, fermentation, silkworm disease, pasteurization and
vaccination is path breaking.
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