Medicine quest
in search of nature's healing secrets
by Mark J. Plotkin
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"Plotkin highlights the ironic marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology and details discoveries that are already producing stunning leads in the laboratory: painkillers from the skin of rain forest frogs, anticoagulants from leech saliva, and antitumor agents from snake venom.
Medicine Quest is a historical odyssey as well: Plotkin provides fascinating background on the centuries-old pursuit of cures that ranges from ancient Egyptian expeditions to foreign lands in search of healing plants, to the nineteenth-century development of aspirin; from willow bark that gave birth to the modern pharmaceutical industry, to the extraction of penicillin from fungi that helped determine the outcome of World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
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Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets
November 27, 2001, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Medicine quest: in search of nature's healing secrets
2001, Penguin Books
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Medicine quest: in search of nature's healing secrets
2000, Viking
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
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From the freezing Arctic to steamy rainforests, Plotkin explores mankind's search for new medicines.
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