botanysociology

History of Pharmacology Pharmacology in its current concept as an analytical-experimental natural science has existed in Germany only since the middle of the 19th century. Previously, the subject was dependent and variously combined with botany, pharmacognosy, chemistry, pharmacy, general pathology, polyclinics and history of medicine. Today, around 30,000 known diseases can be cured with drugs. Diagnostics, therapies and vaccines are available. Pharmacists, doctors, chemists and biologists can rely on different methods when manufacturing or researching mechanisms of action. All scientific disciplines are represented, from genetics, biotechnology and computer-aided synthetic drug design to molecular biology and behavioral pharmacology. The current understanding of the structure of the organism, its organs, its cells and molecular processes is still relatively new (hardly more than 200 years old), but the basic molecular biological methods have only been developed in the last 40 years.