1. Answer the questions:

1. How can you define antibiotics?

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2. What do antibiotics provide?

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3. What do all definitions limit antibiotics to?

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4. What do you know about the history of antibiotic?

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5. What do you know about the development of antibiotic?

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6. What can be considered a folk medicine type of antibiotic therapy?

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8. Where was antibiotic therapy commonly employed initially?

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9. What two groups are antibiotic subdivided into according to their character of action?

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10. What do you know about the mechanism of action of antibiotics?

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2. Complete the sentences:

1. Antibiotics provide effective control of microbial pathogens ____________________________________________________.

2. Antibiotic is a chemical substance that has capacity to__________________________________________________.

3. The history and development of antibiotic agents are ____________________________________________________.

4. Development of antibiotic field is characterized by__________________________________________________.

5. Various ancient and primitive people applied ____________________________________________________.

6. Antibiotics derived from acetate metabolism include______________________________________________.

7. According to the character of action antibiotics are_________________________________________________.

Task II Read and translate the text «English Prescriptions»

English Prescriptions

A prescription is a health – care program implemented by a physician or other medical practitioner in the form of instructions that govern the plan of care for an individual patient. Prescriptions may include orders to be performed by a patient, caretaker, nurse, pharmacist or other therapist. Commonly the term prescription is used to mean an order to take certain medications.

The word “prescription” comes from the Latin “praescriptus” compounded from prae (before) + scriber (to write) = to write before.

The language of prescription was unique in Great Britain some half century ago when all the names of drugs were Latinized. Today all prescriptions are written in English but you still find contracted Latin words.

A more serious problem is the naming of drugs. Each drug has three names. They are the chemical name, the generic name and the trade name. most drugs have several trade names because each company gives it a different name.

For example: ampicillin – the generic name of well known antibiotic; alpha – aminobenzyl P – it’s chemical name; Omnipen, Penbritin, Polycillin are its trade names.

It goes without saying that a prescription cannot be written without a very good knowledge of the dose effect of drugs. Each drug has its own dose specification dependent on pharmacological properties, metabolism of drug. It should have the following information:

• Prescriber information (name, address of the physician, his telephone number).

• Patient information (name, address, age, date).

• The symbol “Rx” is the symbol of recipe and it means (in Latin) a command for a patient “take”.

• The body of the prescription provides the names and quantities of the chief ingredients of the prescription. Also in this part of prescription you find the dose and dosage form, such as tablet, suspension, capsule, syrup.

• The subscription, which gives specific directions for the pharmacist on how to compound the medication.

• The signature, gives instructions to the patient on how, how much, when and how long the drug is to be taken. This instructions arte preceded by the symbol “S” or “Sig.” from the Latin, meaning “mark”.

A prescription is a written order for compounding, dispensing, administering drugs to a specific client and once it is signed by the physician it becomes a legal document!