A doctor gives you medicines when you fall ill. What are the medicine

1.	A doctor gives you medicines when you fall ill. What are the medicines made from?
Answer» Long before pure chemicals were manufactured in labs, people used plants for medicine. There are over a hundred active ingredients derived from plants for use as drugs and medicines. The emergence of synthetic chemistry in the 1800s opened up new avenues for scientific research into drugs. Many chemists tried to locate medically active ingredients in plants (for instance the important malaria remedy quinine), and subsequently tried to make those substances in the laboratory in order to become independent of plant supplies. At the same time, a new industry developed as scientists developed processes to synthesise new chemicals on a large scale. New production methods developed in the late 1800s and early 1900s made it easier to standardise, package and transport medicines.

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