Medicine quest
in search of nature's healing secrets
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
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- Internet Archivemedicinequestins00plot
- Internet Archivemedicinequestins0000plot
- ISBN-100670869376
- ISBN-139780670869374
- Goodreads2443603
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- DDC615/.321
- LCCRS160 .P57 2000
- LCCRS160.P57 2000
Description
From the freezing Arctic to steamy rainforests, Plotkin explores mankind's search for new medicines.
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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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