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I dunno if it’s because my professor is really funny, or it’s 8am and I’m not awake yet, but the stories that my professor tells in my Pharm 659 class are ridiculous.

From the second lecture this semester:
“Did you guys get that? How was the lecture? If you didn’t get it, you better ask questions, because that lecture just cost you $125 in tuition.”

From today:
Talking about Yohimbine, an aphrodisiac, but also used to induce animals to mate with each other: “I had a colleague that used to slip Yohimbine to his dates. He figured if it worked on animals… why not humans? … I never used Yohimbine on my dates. You know why? Because it makes you CRAZY. You start seeing things.”

Random drug fact of the day (and he has toooons of these… I should flip through my notes and compile them): did you know adrenaline (note the “e”) was patented by a company named Parke-Davis (back in 1900) and named Adrenalin. Because the scientific community refuses to acknowledge drugs by their “brand” names and adrenaline and Adrenalin sounded too similar (in face, the same), they changed the name to epinephrine.