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Option 3: Drugs and Medicines

This was a new option for Revised Nuffield Chemistry. Preparative practical work included the production of chloroform and aspirin as well as the extraction of caffeine from tea. Analytical practical work included titrations and applications of TLC.

Contents

1. Drugs from natural sources

2. Anaesthesia and conquest of pain

3. The fight against infectious diseases

4. The development of new drugs

5. The misuse of drugs

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