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Plants in the Development of Modern Medicine / Tony Swain.

De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Archive 1896-1999 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Swain, Tony, Editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Botany, Medical--Congresses.
Materia medica, Vegetable--Congresses.
Local Subjects:
Botany, Medical--Congresses.
Materia medica, Vegetable--Congresses.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (367 p.) : 1 Frontispiz, zahlr. Abb.
Edition:
Reprint 2014
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Language Note:
English
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Anthropological Outlook for Amerindian Medicinal Plants / Wassén, S. Henry
Magic and Witchcraft in Relation to Plants and Folk Medicine / Watt, John Mitchell
The Future of Plants as Sources of New Biodynamic Compounds / Schultes, Richard Evans
The Significance of Comparative Phytochemistry in Medical Botany / Swain, Tony
Medicinal Plants and Empirical Drug Research / Hānsel, Rudolf
Biodynamic Agents from Microorganisms / Bohonos, Nestor
Drugs from Plants of the Sea / Der Μarderosian, Ara H.
Ergot-Α Rich Source of Pharmacologically Active Substances / Hofmann, Albert
Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Tumor Inhibitors of Plant Origin / Kupchan, S. Morris
The Phytochemistry and Biological Activity of Catharanthus lanceus (Apocynaceae) / Farnsworth, Norman R.
The Ordeal Bean of Old Calabar: The Pageant of Physostigma venenosum in Medicine / Holmstedt, Bo
Index
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
ISBN:
0-674-86526-X
OCLC:
1001810447

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