The Unfortunate Tandem
It happened while Mr Harris and his wife sitting on the tandem behind him (0) __were cycling__ (to cycle) through Holland. As the roads (1) _were stony, Harris asked his wife to sit tight. She (3) _could not explain later why she (4) _thought her husband (5) had ordered her to jump down. And she did so. Harris (6) went go on without turning his head. He (7) believed his wife (8) was sitting behind him.
Mrs Harris (9) found herself on the road alone.
At first, she (10) supposed her husband (11)wanted simply to show his skill and he (12) would return) soon when he (13) reached the hill. But her husband (14) disappeared in the wood.
She (15) began to cry as she (16) had no money, and she (17) did not know Dutch.
People (18) thought she (19) had lost something so they (20) took her to the police station.
Meanwhile, Harris (21) was cycling with great pleasure. But soon he (22) felt wrong. He (23) looked back but (24) saw nobody there.
While thinking how to find his wife he (25) met some local people. They (26) were sure he (27) would find his wife at the police station. There he (28) was asked when, where and why he (29) had lost his wife.
The meeting of Mr Harris and his wife (30) was not a tender one.
Be careful on the roads!
significantly to pharmacology?-However, only in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries chemicalknowledge advanced to the point at which it became capable to contributesignificantly to pharmacology.
2. What did the industrial revolution do?-The industrial revolution of the last century gave birth to syntheticorganic chemistry and established a new branch of knowledge necessary for thesynthesis of new drugs.
3. How is pharmacy defined at present?-At present pharmacy is defined as the art and scienceof recognition, identification, collection, preparation, storage, test,composition and distribution of all substances used in preventive or incurative medicine for people’s treatment.
4. Which contribution was the isolation of the
active constituents?-The first and the most important was theisolation in relatively pure chemical form of the active constituents ofplants.
5. Why do pharmaceutical students master so many
subjects?-It includes different subjects, suchas physics, chemistry, botany, pharmacognosy, pharmacology, etc. whichpharmaceutical students master to become highly qualified pharmaceutists.
6. When did pharmacy become an independent branch of
medicine?-It becamean independent branch of medicine when an increasing variety of drugs and theircomplex compositions demanded specialists familiar with such technologies.
7. How long did it take man to make this very
important step?-It tookman over five thousand years to make this very important step.
8. Where does the word «pharmacy» come from?-The word «pharmacy» comes from Greek and in the modem language means «adrug»
9. What specialists did an increasing variety of
drugs demand?-The first and the most important was theisolation in relatively pure chemical form of the active constituents ofplants.
10. Who contributed to our present knowledge of
pharmacy?-The civilization of the past contributed to our present knowledge by thecollection of drugs and medicinal preparations.