Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine

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Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine

Edited by: Tony Swain

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1972

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Medicine Clinical Medicine Clinical Medicine, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
The Anthropological Outlook for Amerindian Medicinal Plants S. Henry Wassén Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Magic and Witchcraft in Relation to Plants and Folk Medicine John Mitchell Watt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
The Future of Plants as Sources of New Biodynamic Compounds Richard Evans Schultes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Significance of Comparative Phytochemistry in Medical Botany Tony Swain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Medicinal Plants and Empirical Drug Research Rudolf Hānsel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Biodynamic Agents from Microorganisms Nestor Bohonos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Drugs from Plants of the Sea Ara H. Der Μarderosian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Ergot-Α Rich Source of Pharmacologically Active Substances Albert Hofmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Tumor Inhibitors of Plant Origin S. Morris Kupchan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
The Phytochemistry and Biological Activity of Catharanthus lanceus (Apocynaceae) Norman R. Farnsworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
The Ordeal Bean of Old Calabar: The Pageant of Physostigma venenosum in Medicine Bo Holmstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

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eBook published on:

October 1, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9780674865266

Hardcover published on:

February 5, 1972

Hardcover ISBN:

9780674865259

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Reprint 2014

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Front matter:

12

Main content:

367

Other:

illustrated

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865266

eBook ISBN: 9780674865266

Hardcover ISBN: 9780674865259

Keywords for this book

Botany, Medical -- Congresses.; Materia medica, Vegetable -- Congresses.

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Professional and scholarly;

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