Chemistry and Pharmacology: Fentanyl is about 100 times more potent than morphine as an analgesic. It is a Âµ-opioid receptor agonist with high lipid solubility and a rapid onset and short duration of effects. Fentanyl rapidly crosses the blood-brain barrier. It is similar to other -Âµopioid receptor agonists (like morphine or oxycodone) in its pharmacological effects and produces analgesia, sedation, respiratory depression, nausea, and vomiting. Fentanyl appears to produce muscle rigidity with greater frequency than other opioids.
Babylonia, Iraq. c. 1750 BCE. Hammurabi, also spelled Hammurapi (born , Babylon [now in Iraq]âdied c. 1750 bce) sixth and best-known ruler of the 1st (Amorite) dynasty of Babylon (reigning c. 1792â1750 bce), noted for his surviving set of laws, once considered the oldest promulgation of laws in human history. See Hammurabi, Code of.
The code of Hammurabi is the first written legal code of the recorded history of the Babylonian State which was found in the famous Rosetta stone currently found in the British Museum. Hammurabi is the name of the ruler who first created written rules circa 1700 BCE. The code of Hammurabi is the first written legal code of the recorded history of the Babylonian State which was found in the famous Rosetta stone currently found in the British Museum.