Medicine quest : in search of nature's healing secrets / Mark J. Plotkin ; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson].

  • Plotkin, Mark J.
Date:
2000
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Viking, 2000.

Physical description

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents

Some poison for your pain? -- The eternal quest -- The fungus among us -- Drugs from bugs -- Hideous healers -- The snakes in the caduceus -- Under the sea -- Plants of the apes -- Shamans -- The sugar sickness.

Bibliographic information

Includes index and bibliography: p. [209]-214.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    IB /PLO
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ISBN

  • 0670869376