1. The document introduces pharmacology as the science dealing with drugs and their effects on the human or animal body. It is derived from the Greek words for "drug" and "study". 2. Pharmacology is divided into pharmacokinetics, which studies how the body affects the drug through absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion, and pharmacodynamics, which examines how drugs produce effects through their mechanisms of action. 3. The key aspects of pharmacology covered are routes of drug administration, extraction of drugs from natural sources, and the scope of studying drug effects on living organisms.