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Modern Medicines From Plants : Botanical Histories Of Some Of Modern Medicine's Most Important Drugs
Paperback Edition: 1
The full colour, beautifully illustrated Modern Medicines from Plants: Botanical histories of some of modern medicine's most important drugssources, and describes how extracts from them, and their semisynthetic and synthetic derivatives, were developed to be today's therapeutic drugs and diagnostic chemicals. This book describes medicinal plants and their habitats, the diseases that their medicines treat, and the science of how they work.
This amazing and unique book is a wonderful read for those with an interest in both herbal and prescription medicines. Written with authority by physicians and gardeners at the Garden of Medicinal Plants at the Royal College of Physicians, London, chapters detail the history and modern scientific research on plants and their medicines. It is very useful to physicians, pharmacists, herbalists, historians and gardeners, bringing together information from every discipline to make it a work of interest as well as reference.
Pages : 394
Publisher : Royal College of Physicians
Publication date : 2023-07-26
Subjects: Pharmacology, Botany & Plant Sciences
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